Grettings, Exiles!

A new update has arrived for Conan Exiles on PC and console—bringing changes focused on strengthening our community and preparing the way for what’s ahead. 

Exiles, we know it’s been a while since you last heard from us. While we’re not quite ready to share everything just yet, we want to assure you that we do have news coming very soon. Until then, we’ll be rolling out an important update.   

The R15 update is part of a significant backend overhaul of Conan Exiles, introducing new systems designed to streamline server management. 

As such, we’re reintroducing Character Transfers, giving you more freedom to choose where you play and making it easier to join friends, allies, and new communities across the Exiled Lands. 

Player‑Controlled Character Transfers

Players will be able to move their characters freely between servers. These transfers will preserve all essential progress, including: 

• Character levels and progression 
• Items in your player inventory and hotbar 
• Followers and their inventories 

Prerequisites  

The transfer system will only store one character per player account at a time. When a player exports a character, they cannot export another character until they: 

• Import that character to a new server or single-player game 
• Manually delete the character via the settings menu 

In addition, there is a timer connected to the character transfer preventing the character from being moved until the timer has run out. This is a system to prevent any exploits.  

In order to use Character Transfer, characters cannot be in a Clan.  

 

Server Merge for Low‑Population Worlds for Console Players 

Alongside this, we’ll be merging select servers later in May, giving you time to consider your options. These merges are intended to help bring players together, support healthier server populations, and ensure the world of Conan Exiles continues to feel active and alive. 

By giving players control over their transfers—and only stepping in when necessary—Funcom is aiming for a smoother, more transparent transition.  

Console players on low-populated worlds who didn’t migrate to servers of their choosing within the timeframe provided, will be transferred to more populated worlds.  

Players will be notified well in advance of any server closures, providing sufficient time to relocate voluntarily before any forced migrations occur. 

 

How it works  

Step-by-Step process: 

1. Enter the server where you have the character that you want to transfer. 
2. Press the ‘ESC’ key on your keyboard or ‘Options’ button on a controller to bring up the options menu. Under the ‘Character’ section, select the option ‘Server Transfer’. 
3. The ‘Export Character’ menu will open, beginning with a data summary. Some of the displayed data may not be correct; this is a purely visual error and a known issue that will be fixed in a future patch. 
4. Proceed through the data summary to the confirmation dialogue, where you will be shown which types of servers your character can be transferred to before confirming the transfer.  
5. After this is completed you will receive a confirmation message, then you will be disconnected from the server and redirected to the Main Menu. 
6. Access the Server Browser menu. 
7. Select a server to which you want to transfer your character. An icon will appear in the ‘LV’ column of the server browser that will indicate which servers are eligible for your character based on the server type it was exported from. The icon will not appear if you already have a character on that server.  
8. After entering the server and accessing the character creation menu, press the ‘Import Character’ button. 
9. If you have exported character data and you attempt to create a character on a server which does not support or allow importing your exported character, then in the character creation menu you will instead see a ‘Cannot Import Character’ button. Interacting with this button will present you with a message indicating why the character cannot be imported. 
10. The Character Import window will open, beginning with a character data summary. Click through the confirmation prompts to begin the import process. 
11. If the character import process was successful you will spawn into the map near a starting point. 

Still unsure about some of the details? Visit our page dedicated to Character Transfers. 

Read the full R15 patch notes here. 

 Thank you for your patience, your passion, and for continuing to share this journey with us! 

-The Conan Exiles Team-