Hello Deadsiders!

Today we present the massive 1.9 update for public testing! This version brings huge features and gameplay rebalancing, so your feedback from testing is invaluable as always. The new blueprint system is a massive expansion to progression, there is a large map expansion to explore, and new airdrops to call down!

Below are instructions on how you can load into the public test server, with some details about version 1.9 for you to read while it installs.

Important note: Version 1.9 makes fundamental changes to progression, crafting, repair, and more. Due to this a full wipe of all servers is required to expand gameplay and push the project forward.

How to connect to the Public Test Server (PTS):

• Right-click Deadside in your Steam library; click on Properties…;
  
• Choose BETAS, then select the “public_test_server - PTS” branch from the drop-down menu;
  
• Wait for the update to download and launch the game;
  
• Connect to one of the available official PTS servers, which depends on your location.

How to switch back to the live version of the game:

• Right-click Deadside in your Steam library, then click on Properties…;
  
• Choose BETAS, then select the “None” branch from the drop-down menu;
  
• Wait for an update to download and launch the game;
  
• Connect to one of the available official live servers depending on your location.

The south west of Mirny will be getting a new desert island look with the addition of the Potny area. Located in E6-E7, this new dense region offers a new area to explore directly connected to the spawn zone. Another new island is being added to this area as well, but as of this test work in this area isn't finished just yet.

We have also added six new POIs to Mirny; a scrapyard (I10), farm (G10), a construction site (H3), two villages (K9, J10), and an oil storage facility (J7).

Older territories have been adjusted to fit in the new areas, and empty areas of the map have been improved.


In version 1.9 we want to significantly expand the list of items a player can craft themselves, deepening the in-game economy and giving our players more options in their progression. Now you can unlock blueprints to craft weapons, armor, attachments, and more all at your base.

Here we have the new blueprints tab, it shows the complete list of blueprints in the game grouped according to the workbench on which the items are crafted. In this example all the recipes are still locked, you can unlock them by studying blueprint fragments.

Blueprint fragments can be found everywhere, from car trunks to heli crashes. Once found you can right click on them to study. Another option is the new research table, here you can dismantle an item converting it into the corresponding blueprint fragment. If you already have a recipe already unlocked, surplus fragments can be sold to traders.

Weapon and armor blueprints can be continually researched and upgraded. Each blueprint level unlocks potential upgrades that you can apply at the new upgrade station.
If you meet the level requirement and have the required materials, you can apply upgrades that increase the performance of your gear.

Those who have spent the time leveling up their blueprints will be able to explore new possibilities with their gear.

Many more items can now be crafted at your base using 3 different base items. Workbenches will allow you to craft basic items, the Advanced Workbench allows for mid game items, and the new CNC Machine for complex high level equipment.

This new blueprint and crafting system is a huge change to Deadside, so we would really like to hear your feedback during testing. Balance and progression is a complex subject, so the more data we get from you the better. We expect players will have differing opinions on the subject and we can't please them all, but we do have the modkit available so that anyone can create the gameplay they prefer.


Speaking of weapons and crafting, version 1.9 comes with a highly requested change to how weapons are repaired in Deadside. We have heard your feedback and decided to simplify the weapon repair system. There are no longer unique weapon parts, just common and rare parts. For example, an S85 will require common sniper parts, while a VSD will require rare sniper parts for repair.

We have also added weapon components used for crafting, upgrading, and repairing weapons. After learning the blueprint you can craft these with scrap metal and spare parts at an advanced workbench. Weapon components have many important gameplay uses, making the required scrap and spare parts even more important to gather.


Airdrops have been in the game for a very very long time, but never before have you been able to call one down yourself. Now if you acquire a signal flare, you can drop them in any location you want!

You can find signal flares in some locations across the map or in some event rewards. Alternatively you can purchase them directly from the trader if you have level two reputation with them. There are 4 flare variants that call down airdrops with different loot inside. Red gets you weapons, ammunition and explosives. Green gives you armor and equipment. Blue gives you resources for crafting and base building. Finally Purple has food and medicine.


Bases in Deadside have been important for a long time, but with this update your base becomes even more critical to your progression and gameplay abilities. On top of that we have seen that on some PvP servers only a few large and experienced teams are able to build their base to a significant size, raiding any others that appear. Now less explosives will spawn in the world overall, with the main source being gameplay events like missions and helicrashes. Now that bases continue to see added depth and importance, this change will give new or solo players more of a fair chance.

With these base changes also comes more items to build with, for example offset doors. These were made per player request for convenience with stairways, though we are sure players will find other creative uses for them.

If a campfire or grill wasn’t cozy enough, we now have a large fireplace ready to be installed in your base! In addition to looking nice, this fireplace is now the most efficient way to cook your food.

We have also added 4 decorative masks that can be hung on your wall, or crafted into wearable versions to intimidate your enemies.


Deadside was originally conceived as a survival game, but as of late food and water haven’t been impacting gameplay much unless you need to spam certain healing items in a pinch. So some gameplay changes have been made to keep these features relevant. One big change being a significantly reduced amount of canned food and bottled water in the world. Water wells will be a dangerous hotspot for players again unless you have water collectors at your base.

Food will still be available at traders, and there are many other sources to gather food from across the world. Deer spawns have been increased, you can hunt duck, fish, gather apples, berries, mussels, or mushrooms.

To keep this system fair you will now respawn with the amount of food and water that you died with. This is nice if you spent the time collecting food and water, not so great if you ignored these needs. In the case these stats reach zero, you will respawn with these values slightly increased so that you have a chance.


With the recent weapon rebalance included in the last update, we got feedback that they had the effect of making AI too accurate and dangerous. So we have made two major changes to AI, first being that military bots are simply less accurate overall. The second is a change to their hearing system to make suppressors a more viable option. AI are less reactive to suppressed shots overall, while being especially ignorant to suppressed pistols allowing you to use stealth as an effective tool.


Now that many items can be crafted at your base with blueprints, changes have been made to the trader’s inventory and pricing for proper gameplay balance. Most notably, high level weapons and armor will no longer be sold to prevent them from becoming too common. But if you have more money than sense, you may still have a chance. Traders now offer a handful of cases that offer different sets of random items when opened. Those willing to gamble might just get lucky!

Other various changes have been made as well like item pricing, plus both traders now purchase the same set of common items from you for convenience.


Changes have been made to the medical items for better balance overall. For example basic rags provide less hp than before, just +3. Sterile rags just +10.


Optimization of our vehicle system has allowed us to increase the amount of vehicles available on each server. Additionally server owners can now customize the amount of both land and water vehicles individually


With all of the features listed above like trader changes and blueprints, it's safe to say that the in-game economy of Deadside will take a new form. So logically the balance of loot spawns will need to follow suit. In general loot boxes are now more random, containing a much larger pool of items. High level weapons and armor will no longer be found just laying around, you will need to craft them or find them in event rewards. Just like the trader changes, this keeps meta items from becoming too common now that you can craft them.


Many of you are likely familiar with the loot crates opened by red keys. These gray crates offer weapons with unique skins, however they present a problem in gameplay where players can get high level items with very low risk. So in version 1.9 locked crates will drop the new skin applicator instead of a weapon. These are single use items that can be used to apply unique skins to weapons, keeping the original purpose of locked crates while improving gameplay balance.

And those are the major changes included in version 1.9! Hop in the Public Test Server and give these features a try, we would really appreciate any feedback you have. We plan to run this test for longer than normal so that we have time for testers to really get a feel for the new progression, and so that the team has more time to make changes.

Stay tuned for news on the release date!

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In this short WIP post, we would like to show you all a handful of areas that we plan to add into the Mirny map in our next update. We have taken some POIs from procedurally generated maps, and imported the entire Potny map into Mirny!

These new POIs will further populate areas of Mirny that were formerly empty in the south. For example the south west side of the map hasn’t seen a lot of traffic outside of base building and Kamensk. Now the Potny map connects it to the south end of the spawn zone, allowing players a new way to progress to the southern areas of the map.

Outside of these new POIs, our team is working on the implementation of blueprints, as well as a couple unique weapons that we hope to show soon. Below is a map highlighting the new areas, as well as a few screenshots. Let us know what you think!

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Our team has substantial (and exciting) plans for 2026, and in this post, we will outline them as transparently as possible, as well as summarize the key learnings and takeaways from last year.

First things first, we hear your feedback loud and clear. Currently, the whole Bad Pixel team is focused on tuning bots’ vision and hearing, fixing loot generation, adding new base decorations, and revisiting the game’s economy - all of that being the main feedback points you’ve shared with us. Expanding Deadside’s PvE aspect and adding more depth to the game overall are also in the pipeline. In the upcoming update drops throughout the year, we plan to:

• Expand the base production system
  
• Expand the list of craftable items and resources
  
• Add new production & comfort modules
  
• Clear up bugs and issues

The next big update is planned for March, and we’re planning on filling it with highly requested changes like workbench improvements and, most importantly, increasing the map size on Mirny. Here is a brief sneak peek at what’s to come:

The March update will mark our return to the formula of more frequent updates - with monthly or bimonthly roll-outs and shorter dev cycles. We’ll explain why in a moment.

In 2025, we shipped two big systems: Modkit and procedural map generation. The modkit was supposed to let our creative community members add their own content and tweak the game’s mechanics, and procedural generation was meant to give you basically endless map variations. However, the response from all of you wasn’t exactly what we hoped for.

Each of those two systems took months of development. Our dev crew learned from it and will lean more toward the essence of what makes Deadside unique in the first place, while introducing compelling content you haven’t seen before with regular waves of improvements. Procedural map generation is on hold for now; however, we don’t want all the content we made for it to go unused. The plan is to bring locations created for the procedural maps (and more) over to Mirny. We’ve already started doing that in Update 1.8: several locations, originally made for procedural maps, have made in into the main area. And that’s not where the integration stops — we’re continuing to bring over more of these finished locations, and you’ll be able to explore them in update 1.9.

We want to thank our mod creators for their awesome creativity, private server owners for stepping up and helping shape the game, and all of our active players for their honest feedback and the time they spend in Mirny. Our everlasting goal is to make the game better, and that’s what we’re going to put a special focus on during the ongoing twelve-month period.

Thank you for reading, and stay tuned for more details!

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We have seen that some elements of update 1.8 have been met with mixed feedback from the community. Radical changes were made to several core systems, and we have gotten many suggestions to fix problems and make improvements. We hear you, and we’re taking steps to set things right.

We plan to release update 1.8.0.4 on Monday, in the meantime read through the changes and let us know what you think!

• Disabled AI damage to player bases
  
• Increased headshot damage on unhelmeted AI for lethal headshots
  
• Weapon repair parts added to the "Tools" section at Traders

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Our goal was to make convoy hunting more challenging for players who prefer sniping bots from the safety of a "two-minute" twig base. We felt that upgrading to a log-tier base was a fair trade-off for that tactical advantage. However, some players began exploiting this mechanic to lure AI toward other players' bases, leading to total griefing and destruction. To prevent these unpleasant surprises, we are reverting this change. Your bases are safe once again.


The recent weapon balance overhaul was intended to specialize weapon roles and make PvP more predictable. We wanted to ensure a stray pistol shot from a distance wouldn't result in an instant player death. Because of this, headshot damage was significantly reduced, leaving only sniper rifles capable of one-tap kills (excluding helmets).

Unfortunately, this unintentionally turned bots into bullet sponges. We are adjusting headshot values so that any weapon in good condition will kill an unhelmeted bot with a single headshot, provided you are within half of the weapon's effective range.


The new repair system was the biggest point of contention. In 1.8, we significantly increased weapon durability (by 2–3x on average), meaning a mint-condition gun won't lose 50% of its durability in a single mission. To balance the economy, we made repairs more expensive and introduced a more realistic system involving unique parts and Machine Oil.

The idea was to add a new dimension to the meta: weapon rarity. We wanted maintaining your favorite high-tier gun to feel like an achievement rather than just a button click. However, we agree that costs became prohibitive for especially rare gear.

As a temporary solution: Traders now stock unique repair parts. These will be significantly cheaper than buying a brand-new gun just to scrap it for parts.

The Future: We are planning a more robust fix by introducing a blueprint system that will allow you to craft these unique parts yourselves.

We are also currently working on expanding the crafting system, which will include a new workbench and the aforementioned blueprints.
Stay tuned for more updates, and let us know what you think about these changes!

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In the next few hours, we will begin rolling out Hotfix 1.8.0.3 for PC!

Minor patch fixing a bug on PvE servers.

⚠️Warning:
During the patch deployment, servers may be temporarily unavailable. Game client update is required

The update does not require progress to be reset, meaning there will be no wipe!

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On Monday, February 9th at 11am CET / 4am CST, we will release Hotfix 1.8.0.2!

⚠️Warning:
During the patch deployment, servers may be temporarily unavailable. Game client update is required

We will also be participating in the Steam PvP Fest! Experienced players will be able to grab DLC at a discount, and any new players looking to try the game will have the perfect opportunity to do so. The PvP Fest starts on the 9th at 7pm CET / 12pm CST

Here are the changes you can expect to see:

• Fixed vests clipping into the new AGC and JTR 6x optics while aiming
  
• Added base blockers to the cabin located at I5 (located below)
• Add Dismantle recipes for all special weapon parts (x1 Special Part -> x2 Common Weapon Parts)
  
• Adjusted workbench and planner recipes
  
• Added a crafting recipe for the shovel
  
• Reduced metal pile respawning
  
• Decreased damage and accuracy of Bandit AI|
  
• Added pistols and S85s to Bandit AI weapon pool
  
• Decreased bot vision radius (-15%)
  
• Removed military AI patrols from regular bandit locations
  
• Removed “take in hand” and hotkey UI tabs
  
• Added the ability to vault through windows using spacebar instead of F
  
• Fixed incorrect particles appearing on upgraded base structures
  
• Moved weapon mod crafting inside the workbench, now located in the weapons tab
  
• Unregistered players no longer have access to crafting workbenches
  
• AI now deal damage to player structures on PvE and PvP no raid servers

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In the next few hours, we will begin rolling out Hotfix 1.8.0.1 for PC!

Small patch addressing an issue that caused items placed in the base storage before version 1.8 to be unavailable for use.

⚠️Warning:
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The update does not require progress to be reset, meaning there will be no wipe!

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We are currently performing technical maintenance to migrate the servers listed below to new hardware. The following servers may be temporarily unavailable until the maintenance is completed

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⚠️Attention: If you play on any of the servers listed above, after maintenance is complete you’ll need to find your server in the server browser the first time you log in. After that, the “Resume” button will work as usual. Your character progress on these servers will not be affected by the maintenance.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience!


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Tomorrow at 11am CET / 4am CST we release update 1.8!

In this update we bring you more realistic and tactical weapons, an expansion to our workbenches, new base objects and lots more! To complement this new content, lots of rebalancing has been done according to your feedback to further improve combat and progression. And as a special treat, you have a new .50 caliber revolver to obliterate people with.

⚠️Store your weapons in your base! ⚠️
This update adds a lot more durability to all weapons, but those stored in your character’s inventory and safezone will not receive this added durability and appear broken. Only weapons in base storage will be adjusted

⚠️If you have a base on Mirny in G4, your base may be deleted ⚠️
This is due to the addition of a new structure on the beach, north west of the sawmill POI. More info can be found in this post below, directly above the patch notes

Our CM Boots made a full video overview on v1.8, check it out!

https://youtu.be/v6sqIRO9c94?si=blvRlDBgFjUIiwK-
Version 1.8 brings a bunch of changes to weapons along with new attachments for them. We have completely rebalanced all weapons in the game to make them more realistic, durable, and specialized. Weapons have 2-3 times more durability, they are generally more accurate, and now deal damage based on range instead of a flat value. In our previous post about the public test we go into much more detail, you can also check our official wiki on release for the full stats if you are interested.

Also coming in this update is the massive .50cal R-12 revolver! It has a slow rate of fire and not the best accuracy, but deals a scary 135 damage with each shot.

One highly requested feature getting added this update are SMG and AR suppressors. These silencers don’t actually silence the weapon, like real life they only reduce the sound signature to make your reports harder to pinpoint. They won’t last forever though, eventually you will burn through your suppressor's durability that can’t be repaired. These attachments are rare, but we have added a bottle suppressor that you can craft. It has very low durability as you would expect, but it works in a pinch.

Along with an overhaul to weapons, we have also changed up the crafting and workbench system. Lots of crafting will now be done at your base at a workbench, with more complex recipes requiring the more expensive advanced workbench. Weapon repair has changed a bit as well, now done at the new repair and dismantling workbench. Each weapon now has its own individual part, ensuring that rare weapons require rare parts for maintenance.

Ammunition crafting is now possible as well using the new Ammo Bench. Using gunpower, scrap metal and other various components you an assemble ammunition of your choice right at your base.

Update 1.8 brings more additions to your base with sloped roofing, wall carpets, and mannequins! Now you can display your armor, mount carpets on walls, all under a traditional looking roof.

Some additions have been made to Mirny as well, with new industrial zone buildings. The sand quarry POI had its industrial zone improved with new assets, and the sawmill at G4 has a new industrial area on the beach. We aren’t doing any sort of wipe with this update, however if your base is close to the new industrial area at G4, it may be deleted to prevent clipping.

Lots more has been added in update 1.8, check the full patch notes below!

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• Existing workbenches will be converted to the new workbench with crafting recipes
  
• Patrolling bandit bots do 50% less damage
  
• Adjusted trader prices
  
• Adjusted crafting recipes making some more complex
  
• Bandit bots can now carry pistols again
  
• Reduced the amount of ammunition carried by bots
  
• Increased material processing time at woodworking and metalworking stations

• R-12 revolver
  
• SMG and AR suppressors
  
• Added the ability to attach red dots to pistols
  
• Extended magazines for IZH-70, TTk, C1911 that can be crafted
  
• Two new red dot sights
  
• Two new 6x optics
  
• New mosin stripper clip animation
  
• Weapon sway is now applied to vehicle passengers

• Changes to all weapon stats and prices
  
• New damage distance falloff system
  
• Increased weapon accuracy and durability
  
• More realistic ballistics, adjusted projectile velocity and accuracy
  
• Changed headshot damage calculation that gives a crit multiplier to each weapon
  
• Weapons are now repaired with individual weapon parts, as well as now requiring machine oil

• New Painting Bench used to apply skins to items
  
• New Dismantling Bench used to disassemble items
  
• New Repair Bench used to repair items
  
• The Workbench item is now used to gain access to some basic crafting recipes
  
• New Advanced Workbench used to gain access to advanced crafting recipes
  
• New Ammo Bench used to craft ammunition

• Rebalanced loot spawning and crafting recipes
  
• Added the Roof Slope base structure
  
• Added mannequins used to display clothing and armor
  
• Added two new industrial zone POIs to Mirny
  
• Added the ability to hang carpets on walls
  
• Added improved UI to campfires, planners and drying racks

• Fixed a bug that caused mission rewards and airdrops to disappear after being rammed by a vehicle
  
• Fixed an exploit that allowed players to store explosive in their safezones
  
• Fixed an exploit using ladder animations that allowed for silent shooting
  
• Fixed a bug that caused ESC to stop working after picking up a construction item and opening inventory
  
• Fixed an ADS bug as a passenger in a bike on a slope
  
• Fixed a bike spawn that potentially traps you in a garage
  
• Fixed a bug that caused sight reticles to become highlighted
  
• Fixed a bug that caused uninstalled modded items to still appear in the trader list and craft panel
  
• Muzzle Brakes now correctly appear on the P900

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