[2022] PTR: Welcome and Thank you - Starstone Barrows Mutation

Greetings Adventurers,

Thank you for participating in the Public Test Realm (PTR) and helping us knock out bugs and test content before they go live. We appreciate all of your help!

For this phase, we will be focusing primarily on the following:

• The new Mutated Expedition centering around Starstone Barrows and Amrine Excavation
• Leaderboards [Closed until available on PTR]
• Shell Company Mitigations [Closed until available on PTR]
• Crafting Tier Changes

Please see our downtime Notification here: and for more information, check out our article here: PTR: Starstone Barrows/Amrine Expedition Mash-up - News | New World - Open World MMO PC Game

At this time, we are specifically looking to collect bug reports and feedback on the following:

• [Focus Feedback] Starstone Barrows Mutation
• [Focus Feedback] Crafting Station Tier Changes
• [Focus Feedback and Bug Reporting] Shell Company Mitigations [Closed until available on PTR]
• [Focus Feedback] Leaderboards [Closed until available on PTR]

We have opened a server in both US-East and Central EU to help facilitate testing. To access the PTR, you may need to change your region selection on the PTR Character Selection Menu.

Please find the backstories for this phase below.

Thank you again for your help and we’ll see you in Aeternum!