Hey Trovians,
Spring has sprung (or at least it’s trying to), and we’re hopping into April with fresh updates, exciting events, and plenty to discover! 🌸
In March, we rolled out the red carpet for The Trovies 2025, our special event where you became the judges by answering five fun Trove-themed questions. Curious about who won? You can check out all the results over on our Discord server! 🏆
Fortune favored the bold during our St. Qubeslick 2025 event! Trovians teamed up with Sir Qubesly, tested their luck, and earned some brand-new rewards along the way.
Get ready to hop into Bunfest 2025 starting April 15! Join Qubesly in a quest chain packed with egg hunts, Candorian Eggmen battles, and Bunfest Delves. Hunt down rare Golden Eggs, collect chocolate, and craft brand-new mounts, allies, and even an exclusive Vanguardian costume! 🐰
Burning Community Topics
There are two major topics we’ve consistently seen from the community that we’d like to address: performance complaints and concerns about the lack of new features. These two are closely linked, and we have updates for both.
In last year’s Community Survey (a big thanks again to everyone who participated!), over a third of you selected performance and stability as the area they most wanted to see improved, making it the most frequently selected improvement area overall. In response, we allocated a considerable portion of our resources to tackle exactly that.
One of the key areas we’ve worked on is optimizing thousands of VFX (Visual Effects). Over time, the accumulation of VFX made it increasingly difficult for some consoles and lower specification PCs to handle the effects properly, leading to crashes. Optimizing thousands of effects, one by one, while retaining their original feel and look has been a huge task for our team. It touched not only recent assets but also very old parts of our codebase. We wanted to be sure we could deliver on this — which is why we remained silent for so long. We didn’t want to promise something until it was fully ready.
On that note, we are happy to announce that the first batch of optimized VFX is now available for testing on the PTS!
These changes will be making their way to consoles soon, but first will be releasing on PC, where players should see an improvement in frame rate and stability.
Additionally, changes are coming to our server infrastructure. During the next weeks, we will test new server tech on our PTS, paving the way to move from a cloud-based setup to traditional bare-metal servers. This shift is expected to improve latency and how the game worlds load, contributing to a smoother overall experience.
Before we proceed, we want to be clear: this is a work in progress. While we expect improvements, this patch and the next won’t solve all issues. This is just the first batch of fixes and the first step of our server transition, but we’re committed to continuing on this path and will be rolling out further improvements over time.
As a result of these technical efforts, the pace of new content updates has unfortunately slowed down. Ongoing duping attempts, which require constant monitoring and action, further complicated the situation. However…
We’re excited to share that a new limited-time game mode, Trials of Luxion, is coming to Trove, and it’s now live on the Public Test Server (PTS)!
We also heard your feedback about Snowfest loud and clear. Trials of Luxion introduces a new way to transform bulk into more valuable materials, inspired by the Donation Station that many of you missed. Different, but same, but different…
Please keep in mind: Luxion is a very busy dragon, and just like before, he will only make his services available for a limited time – but rest assured, he will return again in the future!
As mentioned, this PTS build also includes the first batch of performance improvements, with more to come.
And there is more…
Do you want YOUR question answered in the next Community Letter?
Head to our Discord, you’ll find a dedicated thread in the #feedback channel. Ask your questions and upvote others! The most upvoted questions will be answered in the next Community Letter by the game team!
Keep your eyes glued to our social media – that’s where all the latest and updates will pop up. You don’t want to miss any of the exciting details or surprises we’ve got lined up for you!
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Your Trove team!
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