Release notes

What changed in each version. OverWarden updates itself from Settings — one click, and your game servers keep running while it does.

0.2.25 July 26, 2026

Fixed: Discord messages reached Palworld as gibberish — messages you typed in Discord were being sent to Palworld servers using a Minecraft command, which Palworld didn’t understand. It then complained, and those complaints were posted back into the same Discord channel. Discord → Palworld now works properly, with your spaces and punctuation intact.
Fixed: Palworld servers were labelled “Minecraft” — in the pinned live status message and in the bot’s /status reply. Every server now says which game it actually runs.
Honest about Palworld chat — Palworld doesn’t let server admins see in-game chat at all, so the “Game → Discord” direction can never work there. It now says that instead of offering a switch that quietly does nothing. Joins and leaves still post normally.

0.2.24 July 26, 2026

Fixed: “Update all PCs” couldn’t update your other PCs — the PC you were sitting at updated fine, but every linked PC came back “Bad Request” and stayed on its old version. They update properly now. The PC you click from needs to be on 0.2.24 first — so install this one from Settings as usual, and from then on one click really does cover every PC.
When a linked PC does fail, it says why — OverWarden was throwing away the useful half of the explanation and showing you the short version. Now you get the actual reason.

0.2.23 July 26, 2026

Set up the Discord bot where you’d expect to — one bot covers every server on a PC, so it now connects in Settings → Notifications instead of sending you into one particular server’s Discord tab. Paste the token, invite the bot, copy an invite for a friend, all in one place. Each server still picks its own channels on its own Discord tab.
OverWarden now tells you why Discord went quiet — if the bot can’t post somewhere, you get the channel name and the exact Discord permission it’s missing, with how to fix it — instead of messages that silently never arrive. “Send test message” says what actually went wrong too, rather than always blaming a missing channel.
Fixed: the bot was asking for the wrong permissions — the invite link was missing three of them, so crash alerts couldn’t ping @everyone, the pinned live-status message couldn’t refresh itself, and photo posts were refused. If Discord has been quiet or half-working for you, re-invite the bot from Settings after updating.
Fixed: the live status message could have flooded a channel — if it couldn’t update its own pinned message it would post a brand-new one on every refresh. It now stops and says so.
Clearer Discord settings — a switch turned on with no channel chosen now says so instead of looking configured, and OverWarden mentions when several kinds of message are all pointed at one channel.

0.2.22 July 26, 2026

Tell us when something breaks — there’s a “Report a problem” option in the account menu on every page. Say what went wrong, optionally leave an email so you get a reply, and send. You can tick a box to include a short technical summary (your version, Windows, memory, which games you run, recent errors) — and you can expand see exactly what’s included and read every line of it before it goes. Untick it and only your own words are sent. Your server names, file paths, passwords, worlds, logs and player names are never included, at any setting. Nothing is ever sent in the background. See privacy for the details.

0.2.21 July 26, 2026

Update every PC from one click — if you have linked PCs, Settings now has “Update all PCs.” Your linked PCs go first and the one you’re sitting at goes last, so it can keep showing you what’s happening right up until it restarts itself. You can also update a single linked PC straight from its card on the dashboard. This is the last update you’ll need to install on each PC by hand.
You can watch an update happen — instead of the dashboard going dark and hopefully coming back, you get a real progress bar while the download runs, then a clear “installing” step, and the page brings itself back on the new version when it’s ready. If an update doesn’t finish, OverWarden tells you that plainly next time it starts instead of leaving you guessing.
Uses less memory while updating — the download is checked as it arrives rather than being held in memory all at once.

0.2.20 July 26, 2026

Ask OverWarden understands your game’s own setting names — ask it to change an ARK or Palworld setting using the name you found in a guide or in the game’s own files, and it now knows what you mean instead of refusing. If a setting really doesn’t exist it says which one it didn’t recognise and suggests the closest match, and it checks before you approve rather than after.
“It ran out of memory” now works for ARK and Palworld — those two used to just say “crashed.” When the numbers show the server had grown past the memory set aside for it, OverWarden says so in plain words and tells you what to change. If the evidence isn’t there it stays quiet rather than guessing.
ARK memory is set per map — Ragnarok and Extinction need far more than The Island, so OverWarden now suggests the right amount for the map you picked instead of one number for every map.
Discord admin role works on ARK — give someone your admin role in Discord, they link their account, and they get in-game admin on your ARK server automatically. It already worked for Minecraft.
Palworld console warnings reach Discord — that switch was there but did nothing on Palworld servers. It works now, and it stays quiet unless something is genuinely wrong.
OverWarden tells you when mods and plugins have updates — it has been checking all along and never mentioned it. Now it points you at the right tab, and leaves the decision to you.

0.2.19 July 24, 2026

Ask OverWarden can build you a server — say “make me a Paper survival server for my friends” and it sets one up end to end: it picks a version, downloads it, sorts out the ports, writes the config and does the first boot. Minecraft, ARK and Palworld — you just approve the card (Minecraft asks you to accept the EULA right there, nothing is auto-accepted).
It shows answers, not just talks — ask to see your backups, who’s online, or your scheduled jobs and OverWarden lays them out in a clean table instead of a wall of text.
More you can do straight from chat — clone a Minecraft server to try a risky change on the copy first, change a single setting (“set the difficulty to hard,” “turn PvP off”), and on Palworld kick, ban or unban a player by name.
AI works across your linked PCs — a second PC you have linked now borrows your main PC’s AI key automatically, so Ask OverWarden works everywhere in your fleet with nothing extra to set up.

0.2.18 July 23, 2026

Move a server back to the main PC — migration used to only go from the main PC out to a linked one. Now a server on a linked PC can move back too, so servers flow both ways across your fleet. Same careful handoff: it’s never running in two places at once, and a snapshot always stays behind.

0.2.17 July 22, 2026

See your whole fleet’s power — with more than one PC linked, the dashboard shows a new Fleet Resources panel: free RAM, CPU and disk pooled across every PC, plus a per-PC breakdown.
New servers land where there’s room — creating a server offers “Auto — the PC with the most room,” so you never overload one machine. Minecraft, ARK and Palworld.
Move any server between PCs — migration now covers ARK: Survival Ascended and Palworld too, and you can move a server while it’s running — it’s stopped here, moved, and started on the other PC. One tap picks the PC with the most room.
Tidy up your fleet — rename any linked PC, and group the dashboard by the PC each server runs on.

0.2.16 July 22, 2026

Sign in with your email — the online portal at connect.overwarden.com now sends a six-digit code to your email, like your bank. No license keys to dig up.
Roles for the people you add — in Settings → People, make someone a Helper (the day shift: start/stop, backups, kick, whitelist, Panic) or a Manager (runs the games too — console, players, mods, config, schedules — but never your billing, keys, or the ability to delete a server). Add their email and they can sign in from anywhere, too.
OverWarden’s weekly plan — the AI page now shows a short list of what it would do this week (a nightly backup here, an off-hours restart there), each one a single tap to approve. No AI spend to work it out.
Cleaner Palworld Overview — the join address and its tools live in one card now, not two.
The sign-in email got a fresh, more polished look.

0.2.15 July 22, 2026

Sign in on the website — go to connect.overwarden.com, enter your license key, and every PC with "Open from anywhere" switched on shows an Open dashboard button. This update teaches your PC to introduce itself, so it appears there as online.
Helper accounts — give someone you trust their own sign-in (Settings → People). Helpers can start, stop and restart servers, take a backup, kick players, approve whitelist requests, and hit Panic — and nothing else. No files, no mods, no settings, no deleting anything.

0.2.14 July 22, 2026

Open from anywhere (beta) — one switch in Settings gives you a private link to your full dashboard from any phone or laptop, anywhere. No router changes, no setup; your OverWarden password still guards the door, and turning it off kills the link for good.
Crossplay in one click — on Paper/Purpur Minecraft servers, the new "Consoles & phones" switch sets up Geyser + Floodgate so Xbox, Switch, PlayStation and phone players can join your Java server.
Friends get the mods themselves — a mod server's public page now has a "Download the mod pack" button, so one link hands friends the address and the matching client mods.
The dashboard installs as an app on your phone (Add to Home Screen), and Settings shows the safe ways to reach it away from home.
Ask OverWarden can back up every server with one approved card, and greets you with "OverWarden noticed" nudges (never backed up, crashed overnight, low disk) you can fix with one tap.
Schedule an in-game announcement without console syntax; release notes and docs links in Settings now go somewhere real.

0.2.13 July 21, 2026

Linked PCs got much more capable: restart, back up, and watch the live console of a server on another PC — right from the main dashboard.
Create a server on any linked PC from the create page ("Create on" picker).
One paid license now covers your linked PCs — a second PC in your fleet no longer needs its own.
Ask OverWarden can now check and change how friends connect, and set up Discord channels for a server.

0.2.12 July 21, 2026

Ask OverWarden can now do things, not just answer: renaming, RAM changes, players (whitelist/kick/ban/op), restoring backups, mods, schedules, and more — 25+ actions, always shown as a card you approve first, always with a safety snapshot.
It answers in plain words: what it found, what it would do, and whether it's reversible.
Fixed the chat spinner getting stuck forever if a request stalled.

0.2.11 July 20, 2026

Palworld console join/leave lines now use the players' real names.

0.2.10 July 20, 2026

Palworld console now shows real game events instead of OverWarden's own status checks.

0.2.9 July 20, 2026

Fixed a sign-in issue introduced in 0.2.8.

0.2.8 July 20, 2026

Palworld went deep: live console capture, who's-online with real join/leave history, guild & base browsing from your world save, play sessions, and honest difficulty presets.
Connection modes: OverWarden now tells you exactly how friends can reach each server (same Wi-Fi, router, or tunnel) and tests it.
Ask OverWarden suggestions now match the game you're looking at.

0.2.7 July 19, 2026

Smoother first run: the installer opens your dashboard when it's ready, and the welcome tour walks through AI setup and adopting existing servers.

0.2.5 – 0.2.6 July 19, 2026

Licensing went live: 14-day free trial, activation, and the store. Game servers are never stopped over licensing — an expired license only makes the dashboard read-only.

0.2.3 – 0.2.4 July 19, 2026

System tray companion: dashboard shortcut, live "N of M servers running" status, and update checks from the tray.
Stability fixes found while testing updates on a real install.

0.2.0 – 0.2.2 July 17–19, 2026

The first installable OverWarden: one setup file, self-updating, with Minecraft, ARK: Survival Ascended, and Palworld support.
Adopting existing servers (including Palworld), a safer home for new servers (C:\OverWarden), and a guard so servers started outside OverWarden are never force-killed.