Seasons

Seasons were first introduced in early 2023. Seasons feature unique rewards such as skins, resources, emotes and titles. Some weapons and armor (artifacts) were introduced in later seasons reward tracks (Season 3+).

Season	Season Name	Start Date	End Date	Total Days
1	Fellowship & Fire	April 4th, 2023	July 6th, 2023	93 Days
2	Blood of the Sands	July 6th, 2023	October 3rd, 2023	89 Days
3	Rise of the Angry Earth	October 3rd, 2023	December 13th, 2023	71 Days
4	Eternal Frost	December 13th, 2023	April 2nd, 2024	111 Days
5	Season of the Guardian	April 2nd, 2024	October 15th, 2024	196 Days
6	Season of Opportunity	October 15th, 2024	January 14th, 2025	91 days
7	Season of Conquerors	January 21, 2025	January 21st, 2025

Season 1

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• Combat Balancing
• Gear Set Storage
• New Heartrune: Fire Storm
• New Expedition: Empyrean Forge
• Main Story Quest Overhaul: Brightwood and Weaver's Fen

Season 2

• Transmog
• New Elite Trial: Arena of Shah Neshen
• New Seasonal Trial: The Hatchery
• New Heartrune: The Devourer
• PVP Reward Track Updates
• Raid Groups (20 players)
• Cross-World Outpost Rush
• New 3v3 Arena Map
• First Light Removal

Season 3

• New Story for First Light (Renamed to Elysian Wilds)
• Mounts are introduced
• Player Max-Level risen to 65
• Max Gearscore risen to 700
• New Gear Rarity: Artifact
• Flail Weapons are introduced
• New Expedition: The Savage Divide
• New Heartrune: Primal Fury
• PvP Influence Races are introduced
• Main Story Quest Overhaul: Edengrove and Great Cleave
• Removal of Ward, Bane, Resilience and Expertise
• Removal of Umbral Shards

Season 4

• New Seasonal Story for The Glacial Tarn
• New Expedition: The Glacial Tarn
• New Artifacts
• Introduction of Group Finder (Cross-World Expeditions)

Season 5

• New Seasonal Trial: Winter Rune Forge
• New Artifacts:
  • Sin
  • Venom
  • Tempest Fury
  • Nature's Wrath
  • Gilli's Gravity Gauntlets
  • Ironheart
  • Creed Boots
  • Phoenix
• New Combat and Animation System
• Mounts permitted in Outpost Rush
• Main Story Quest Revisions are completed
• Native Controller Support
• Cooking Skill Overhaul

Season 6

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  Updated name to New World: Aeternum.
• Released on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 consoles.
• Added free-for-all PVP zone The Cursed Mists.
• Added first lineal raid: Hive of the Gorgons
• New Artifacts:
  • Cowl of Power Light Headwear
  • Survivor’s Coat Heavy Chest
  • Ghostly Touch Medium Gloves
  • Grace Greatsword
  • Power Stone Flail
  • Azoth Conductors Medium Legwear
  • Elemental Band Ring
  • Trsna Warhammer
• Repeatable endgame Soul Trials
• Upleveled Sandwurm gear and rewards
• Upleveled Hatchery gear and rewards
• Swimming
• New cinematic storytelling
• Cross-platform play
• Cross-world Arenas
• New starting experience
• Quality of life improvements and balance updates
• Performance optimizations
• Fresh start worlds
• Enhanced controller support
• Player Archetypes
• Combat improvements (stagger PvE enemies)
• Gear Score increase to 725