Turn Off Living Settlements on Official Servers

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This is a renewed request to temporarily turn off the Living Settlements feature immediately on Official Servers until it is fixed, please @Community

Players, please react:

:heart: if you agree and you’re an Official server player
:+1: if you stand in solidarity for the Official server players
:tada: if you’re on the fence
:open_mouth: if you disagree
:slightly_frowning_face: if you’re our resident frowny face expert

Since Living Settlements were introduced on October 17, 2024, players have lost many crafter/bench thralls. They have figured out and adapted with some success and varying degrees in ensuring needs are met and pathways are clear. But since the patch of March 25, 2025, players are once again losing thralls in droves. No matter how hard they have tried it has not been a guarantee to retain thralls as the Living Settlements still needs refinement.

Please disable Living Settlements on Official Servers until it can be fully worked out.

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To be honest I’d like to see the entire system removed, not just turned off. (And Living Settlements was the only thing added in any of the Ages that was actually something I wanted - but I never wanted it like this. Nothing about what was done here has been good in my view - not just the bugs but the entire execution.) I’d even be willing to (inevitably) lose all my crafting thralls to achieve it. I probably wouldn’t be the only one that would be willing, though I can also imagine the howls of anguish if the devs did actually do that…

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:heart: because I can’t emote my own post

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What we asked for:

“Is there any way to add armor slots to crafter thralls?”

What we got:

“Best we can do is a system that will randomly delete your thralls . . . IN THE NEW ARMOUR YOU’VE GIVEN THEM!”

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I cannot say I’d be sad if it were permanently removed but I know how important it is to many of our fellow players.

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They should just put up a poll and ask the community what they want.

Given its current state, Do you or Do you not want Living Settlements?

Safe to say it’s been a colossal disaster since its inception, no?

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I only wanted patrols…
A settlement system as I envisioned it doesn’t have anything to do with thralls walking around randomly.

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i understand the idea behind wanting the thralls feel more alive.

but if we as players or at least i know that something like that requieres a tremedous amount of effort. why the devs decided to go for a feature that is cosmetic, ergo-useless, and ambitius as this instead on focusing on old bugs?.

Hey, i get it, you played soulmask, you said “cool” you tried to implement it for conan but broke everything, shit happens, just accept that it doesn’t work, go back to what it worked and move on.

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I see the appeal with more recent titles and it isn’t like they didn’t already kind of had the spark of the idea from early on.

I agree that the majority vision it seemed players had was outfitting their thralls and maybe some more options like allowing the crafters to have emotes.

I hope that this is a lesson that they don’t repeat: releasing content that is so incomplete that it only gives the playerbase grief.

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Or, at least, make crafters actually stay where you put them. As it can be quite annoying to find new named blacksmith/carpenter/confessor/etc. because your previous one decided to go for a walk and had misfortune to cross paths with aggressive neighbours/local fauna.

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Haperson lol never fails. I’ve come to take it as an “I am sorry you are having an issue; wish I could help” kinda thing.

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It would certainly seem simple, ya.

It would have to be posted to all launchers for at least a month or more… because players seeing it only on social media or the forums wouldn’t work.

I’ve frequently suggested the merits in having your account tied to an email and this would be one of them.

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It’s definitely much worse now. Could be because there’s more people on the servers and/or werehyenas from the event but whatever the reason(s) I’m seeing a lot more people losing thralls lately and have lost some myself on official servers that had been fine until now.

I don’t seem to be able to do the emotes but I very much agree Funcom needs to do something. Inflicting this on all the people who came back due to the bug fix patch is equal parts hilarious and sad at the same time.

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I was playing for a while on the beta client; wish funcom would bring it up to date, nice fresh smooth running server. Or was, think some one has found the off switch. Pardon tangent is my middle name.

On the beta client it seems lively is borked a bit. Most every thrall I put on station stays. It seems only very specific thralls “wander”. But it is so nice stepping in to my work room with everyone working away it’s so

LIVELY.

What I’d like to see is active artisans when I have work for them, and lounging at bench poses other wise. And the bench off.

The way I’d like to see lively bases I doubt funcom could pull off. Work schedules on food and water sources, and beds. But with the on going in game menu issues :grimacing:

Once I’ve established my latest live I’ll get back to the beta client. Runs so smooth, server is so clean. No mega builds, no years of hording :slightly_smiling_face:

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I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the intent, the execution needs refinement.

Release content that, at minimum, works as intended and does not cause loss.

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I’m not so sure - while I agree the execution is the biggest issue, I do feel that the intent was also flawed (not from some sort of ‘bad intentions’ but from the usual only partially listening to what is being called for). Even if the system was working perfectly as intended, it bears little relation to what players were actually requesting, which was principally to do with clothing crafters and being able to set patrols and emotes for thralls. What was requested was more granular control, but the system was designed to be more random and simultaneously restrictive (having to have specific ‘needs’ leading to base design requirements, for example). Even if the system was working perfectly (which is, of course, far from the case), I don’t think it particularly meets the requests of players.

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I’d be massively disappointed if they removed Living Settlements entirely instead of fixing it. Though I stand in solidarity with those on officials - it’s just totally unacceptable in its current state - randomly losing (often hard to find) thralls for no reason. They never should have released it in the first place, with bugs so severe. Not sure why they turned it back on after temporarily disabling it on officials.

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They did say from the beginning they intended to have a living settlement system, a few players have shared videos I’m sure you’ve seen.

Whether or not that is what players envision doesn’t always align. Sometimes that’s ok, in this case it’s a mixed bag :confused:

QoL and content stuff I want are things like fixing the UI/inventory back to when it functioned reliably, dying saddles, pet emotes, and yes indeed, dressing my dolls.

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stuff your crafters in a room with no exit.

i figured this out days before the system ever officially launched.

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Exactly - I put mine on the first floor (or rather second floor for US based players :slight_smile: ), without any ladders or hatches. Didn’t lose a thrall since. Just be sure to place them in the vicinity of their designated workstations, so that their radius will cover those benches.

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