Greetings Settlers,

"The Settlers" brand is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year! We can't allow such a momentous occasion to pass without something really special happening in The Settlers Online!

More details will be revealed next week.

What do you think will happen?
Click here to share your thoughts in our official forums.

See you in-game,

~BB_Effiluna

Ubisoft Community Manager

Greetings Settlers,

The votes have been tallied! Here are the results of the worldwide community vote on the upcoming changes to the Guild Market:

The above results represent the combined results from all international instances.

And the winner is: Silo!

Click here for more information!

See you in-game,

~BB_Effiluna

Ubisoft Community Manager

As a reminder, the Settlers Online servers will come down Wednesday night at 11:45PM PDT (2:45AM EDT) for a 5 hour maintenance. The game will be playable at 5:00AM (PT). During this time, the website may be down.

Be sure to follow The Settlers Online on Facebook and Twitter for news and exclusive updates!

See you in-game,

~BB_Effiluna

Ubisoft Community Manager

Greetings Settlers,

Last week, the new developer's diary post informed you about a new complex feature that will go live in 2013. It will introduce new adventures, new enemies, impressive new buildings, new resources, and new items.

The first version of these high-level player challenges can be tested on our public test server starting today.

The public test starts at approximately 8:30 PDT / 11:30 EDT!

Click here to visit the public test server!

Please note: This content is still being tested and is not finalized.

See you in-game,

~BB_Effiluna

Ubisoft Community Manager

This week's winner is WhiteAngelYY! We loved her simple garden with friendly visiting deer!

Click here to see the full pic, as well as share your own!

See you in-game,

~BB_Effiluna

Ubisoft Community Manager

Greetings Settlers,

Have you entered our Caption Contest? The premise is simple: Make up a caption for the image below.

5 Players will win 500 Gems each. Only one entry per person. This contest will only be available until June 30th, so act fast!

Click here to participate!

See you in-game,

~BB_Effiluna

Ubisoft Community Manager

Greetings Settlers,

In celebration of new features that went live this week in The Settlers Online: Castle Empire, we've decided to hold a "Name Your Geologist" contest! Share the new custom name of your favorite geologist and give your geologist a backstory for a chance to win up to 750 gems!

Click here to participate!

See you in game,

~BB_Effiluna

Ubisoft Community Manager

Greetings Settlers,

Our Pro Tip Event has come to a close and we are thrilled to announce our winners! Thank you to everyone who participated. Keep an eye on the Events and Promotions forum for more contests and more chances to win coming soon!

Click here for the full list of winners!

See you in game,

~BB_Effiluna

Ubisoft Community Manager

Greetings Settlers,

On May 31st a new rare buff was revealed that speeds up the bookbinder.
As promised, all of you who played the game between Monday, May 27th
and Monday, June 10th will receive three of this special item today.

• Name: Bookbinding Glue
• Effect: Increases the production speed of the Bookbinder to 200% for 24 hours
• Usage: You can use it on your home zone, it is tradable

The "bookbinder glue" is a special Science System buff.

If you played during the time frame specified, check your in-game mail.
We have started to send out these items, but it may take up to 1 hour until all buffs are delivered.

See you in-game,

~BB_Effiluna

Ubisoft Community Manager

Greetings Settlers,

The Science System is now live! Log in NOW to check out these exciting new features:

• 7 brand new buildings, new production chains and 9 new resources.
• A skill tree for geologists (with 20 different skills!).
• The ability to specialize each of your geologists individually.
• A few tutorial quests and help windows to help guide you on your path.
• The ability to assign unique names to each of your specialists.

For more details, visit the Science System Developer’s Diary as well as the patch notes over in our official forums.

See you in-game,

~BB_Effiluna

Ubisoft Community Manager