Funcom released the Conan Exiles December update, which is live now on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. The patch smooths core loops players hit dozens of times a session, from placing foundations and hauling resources to learning new sorcery spells and running into Purge bugs, so the changes affect both base builders and magic users.

Construction and crafting saw several practical changes. Followers will now supply materials directly when you build with the Construction Hammer, removing the need to fumble while over-encumbered, and crafting stations can pull required resources straight from your inventory for faster production. Sorcery received a broad set of tweaks. Casting with the Arcane Staff is faster, early spells stopped requiring reagents, and progression in the Tome of Kurak was smoothed. Sorcerer thralls now provide efficiency bonuses at the Sacrificial Stone, and new rituals let players summon entities such as the Traitor of Blood and It That Hunts. The update also added new Thrall Trader knowledge, allowing players to construct selling stations for human followers, animals, and golems, which opens new ways to convert excess NPCs into gold.

Purge spawning behavior and landclaim detection were adjusted to address cases where Forward Operating Bases could appear in the wrong place, and a collection of crash fixes and stability improvements aimed to reduce mid-session interruptions. New items were added to the Bazaar and will rotate on a schedule, so the selection will change over time.

DECEMBER UPDATE 2025 PATCH NOTES

Feature Updates

Sorcery:
- More efficient Sacrificial Blood harvesting.
  - Bottling sacrificial blood now yields 3 bottles, up from 1.
  - Sorcerer Thralls now provide a benefit to the efficiency of Sacrificial Altar recipes that process raw Sacrificial Blood: +25% result items per thrall tier. A T4 thrall doubles the outcome of the craft.
- Sorcerous Alchemy, allowing the transmutation of materials into other materials.
- Three new summoning rituals are available at the Chalk Circle, once the player has unlocked them via the Tome of Kurak (they are not unlocked at the same time):
  - Summon Traitor of Blood – Summon a non-aggressive demon who will trade resources in bulk for Blood. His time in this world is limited once summoned.
  - Summon It That Hunts – Summon an enigmatic bestial entity willing to provide exclusive hunting services… If you can figure out what it is that it wants.
  - Summon Avatar of Bokrug – A dangerous ritual that manifests an avatar of the potent god Bokrug. Be warned – it is powerful enough to break through the protections built into the Chalk Circle, and highly aggressive.
We’ve taught the Exiles how to dodge-roll. And then, very carefully, instructed them not to be annoying about it.
The “Thrall Trader” knowledge is purchasable at level 30 (requires Thrall Taker) for 5 points. This unlocks the construction of 2 new objects via the Construction Hammer: Thrall Selling Cage and Animal Selling Post. These objects allow for the sale of in-world human, golem, or animal followers for Gold Coins.

Quality Of Life Changes

Building with the construction hammer now uses resources carried by your follower. No more overencumbering yourself before building that extension onto your base!
Starting recipes at a crafting station will now automatically pull resources from your inventory. Less fiddling around with items, more making the thing you want.
Numerous improvements to sorcery, including but not limited to:
- Faster casting with the Arcane Staff.
- Unified and reduced casting requirements (no more carrying around 3 different tiers of pouches).
- All tier 1 spells have their reagent cost removed.
- Sorcerer thralls will provide benefits at the Sacrificial Stone (more efficient Sacrificial Blood harvesting).
- Rebalanced and accelerated Tome of Kurak progression.
- Significantly reduced penalty when using Transporter Stones. The corruption debuff after travelling has been shortened to 10 seconds and now applies a much smaller amount of corruption.

Black Lotus Bazaar

New items have been added to the Bazaar. Please note that these will be offered on rotation and not everything will be available in the store at the same time:

New Pictish treehouse building set
New Hairstyle with the Yamatai Samurai Bundle!
Cimmerian Blacksmith Set
Tortage Brawler Set
Argossean Stargazer Props
Stygian Sorcerer Props
Liu Fei Bedroom props
Kambujan Fighter Set
Worker Clothing Set
Barachan Castaway bundle with new Tavern Bar
Kumbujan Rhino Mount
Turanian Tiger Pet Bundle
New Emotes with Drunken Brawl theme
Return of Battle Pass items in Several bundles

Bug Fixes

Fixed several building-related server crashes.
Improved purge spawning:
- Fixed the purge “owned landclaim” detection so that it cannot spawn the Forward Operating Base on the edge of an unrelated player’s landclaim. This fixes the issue where players could trigger a purge within range of another player’s base and harass them.
- Significantly increased the density of checked points when searching for a spot to place the Forward Operating Base, making it more likely to find a usable location by being more thorough in the search.
Fixed numerous DLC items’ dye functionality and rendering issues.

Known Issues

Elevators are not currently buildable via the Construction Hammer, but can still be crafted at their respective workbench and then placed from the hotbar.

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Conan Exiles is an online multiplayer survival game set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Enter a vast, open-world sandbox and play together with friends and strangers as you build your own home or even a shared city. Survive freezing cold temperatures, explore loot-filled dungeons, develop your character from a lowly peasant to a mighty barbarian, and fight to dominate your enemies in epic siege wars.
Conan Exiles can be played in full single-player, co-op, or persistent online multiplayer.

Genre: Fighting, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Release: 2018-05-08
Publisher: Funcom, Koch Media
Age Rating: PEGI 18 / USK 18 / ACB MA 15+ / GRAC 19+ / ESRB M
IGDB Rating: 69.9/100