Conan Exiles Age of Heroes: What's New for Server Admins
The Age of Heroes update brought sweeping changes to the Conan Exiles endgame — most significantly, a complete overhaul of the Thrall combat AI, the introduction of NPC Champions, and a revamped purge system. For dedicated server administrators, these changes require both config reviews and restart plans to properly initialise the new AI subsystems on your live world.
Running on the new Enhanced (UE5) build? Age of Heroes content carries over unchanged. See our Conan Exiles Enhanced launch guide for the May 2026 update specifics on top of Age of Heroes.
🤺 Thrall AI Overhaul
Thrall combat logic now uses a behaviour tree system. Existing thralls retain their gear but their combat settings reset to defaults.
🏰 New Purge System
The revamped Purge now scales dynamically to the strongest base on the server.
Key Configuration Changes
Check your ServerSettings.ini against the current key list in the server configuration guide. Several keys that circulate for this update, MaxPurgeScore, PurgeMaximum, NPCChampionSpawnMultiplier and MaxThralls, are not settings the current server knows: asked over RCON, it answers "Server setting ... not found". Remove them, so the file does not suggest a setting that is not there.
Recommended Post-Update Actions
- Backup
game.dbbefore applying — the post-update migration modifies Thrall stat tables irreversibly - Test the Purge manually on a staging world before your live server to validate the new scaling
- Notify your community of the Thrall AI reset — combat presets will need to be reapplied by each player
Purge Tip: On low-pop PvE servers where lone players get overwhelmed by raids scaled for clan-level fortifications, switch purges off with EnablePurge=False until the population grows.
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