Release notes

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

0.2.17 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.