Pax Dei R47 Adds Birds, Recurve Bows, and an Achievement System

The R47 update is now live across all Pax Dei shards, delivering one of the more substantial content patches the game has seen — touching hunting, crafting, equipment, and player progression in a single release.

What changed

Birds & Hunting

• Six bird species — Grouses, Ptarmigans, Pheasants, Geese, Vultures, and Eagles — now inhabit the game's biomes.
• Birds roam on the ground, react to nearby players, and take flight when disturbed; they can be hunted airborne or grounded, though a bow is strongly recommended.
• Hunted birds yield feathers, a new material used in Fletching for advanced arrow crafting.

Bows & Archery

• A new Recurve Bow family spans Tier 2 through Tier 4, offering greater accuracy, faster arrow speed, and higher damage at the cost of slower draw and reload times.
• Higher-tier bows across the board now provide improved accuracy and faster handling.
• Bows now require crafted Bow Strings as a component.
• All existing bows have received new visual models, with colour variations for attuned and warded versions.
• The former Curved Bow has been renamed the Woodrunner Bow.

Archery Targets

• Ground-standing and wall-mounted archery targets have been added; hitting one announces hit accuracy to nearby players, enabling practice or organised competitions.

Achievements

• An Achievement system is now live, designed to guide new players and offer harder goals for veterans.
• Achievements are shared across an account by region (US, EU, SEA).
• Players should expect a flood of notifications on first login; pressing N silences them.

Also noted: a permissions revamp (described as a first step), chat improvements, new props, and balancing changes are included but not detailed in the release notes.

For players who invested in archery builds, R47 meaningfully deepens that loop — from sourcing feathers in the field to measuring precision on a target range.