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 (PDT). During this time, the website may be down.

The Science System will be live after this maintenance. You will also be receiving your gem packages for the free gem increase.

Guild quests will also be reset this week. Like last time, all active guild members will receive 100 guild coins. We will continue to perform a guild quest reset every two weeks until a fix is implemented.

Click here to preview the patch notes.

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,

We would like to encourage you to visit Uplay.com to read the latest news and updates from Ubisoft at E3!

Some of you have already discovered the special voucher code for The Settlers Online: Castle Empire available on the Uplay website.
Click here to learn more!

Happy Settling,

The Settlers Online: Castle Empire Team

Greetings Settlers,

In May, we published three developer's diary posts. Why not start June with another dev diary?

On Friday, you got a sneak peek at one of the new buildings. But there is much more you should know about, including these mysterious magic beans...

Click here to read our new dev diary and learn about the challenging fairy-tale adventures coming later this year!

See you in-game,

~BB_Effiluna

Ubisoft Community Manager

This week's winner is Supra-X! We loved the attention to detail and his use of stone walls.

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

See you in-game,

~BB_Effiluna

Ubisoft Community Manager

Greetings Settlers,

Are you ready to train specialized geologists? The new Science System will be deployed next week! It will consist of new buildings, new production chains, new resources, and the geologist skill tree. Learn more about our upcoming Science System in our previous Science System Dev Diary.

Next week, we will also be sharing a brand new Developer's Diary! In next week's Dev Diary, we will discuss a cool new feature that will go live this year!

See you in-game,

~BB_Effiluna

Ubisoft Community Manager

Do you want a chance to outwit your fellow settlers and earn some free gems in the process? Tune in to GM Trivia in the Global-1 chat channel on Fridays at 10:00pm EST on Zeus and 10:30pm EST on Ares for a chance to win!

Click here for full details on our weekly GM Trivia event!

See you in-game,

~BB_Effiluna

Ubisoft Community Manager

Greetings Settlers,

In anticipation of the new Science System that will be hitting our servers next week, we've decided to hold a new 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 from June 6th to June 30th, so act fast!

Click here to participate!

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 (PDT). During this time, the website may be down.

The Crisis Quest: "The Fallen Army" will no longer be available after this maintenance.

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,

Today, we're happy to share a brand new episode of "Blue Byte Backstage."
This time, they discuss the Science System being deployed on June 13th:

For more details, check out the Science System dev diary over in our official forums or even play it in advance on our public test server.

See you in-game,

~BB_Effiluna

Ubisoft Community Manager

Greetings Settlers,

Next week, the new Science System will be hitting our servers! Here are some things to look forward to:

• 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 over in our official forums.

See you in-game,

~BB_Effiluna

Ubisoft Community Manager