Dark and Darker Server Status – Maintenance Schedule and Downtime

Dark and Darker is a multiplayer extraction dark fantasy video game that gained instant fame as soon as it Steam. The developers release regular updates to uplift the game experience, including hotfixes and updates. When the Dark and Darker servers undergo maintenance, the players may get errors when logging into the game. Knowing if the servers are down will prevent you from spending time troubleshooting the error. Keep reading, and we will share the game’s current server status and verify the status of the Dark and Darker servers yourself.

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Are the Dark and Darker Servers Down

23 Sep

Maintenance has been extended by another 3 hours. Check the time below for the approximate server live time.

Maintenance End Time

Early Access Season #7 Patch Notes

1. Bugfixes:
   • Fixed an issue where Sorcerer’s Lightning Mastery could bounce back to the caster.
   • Fixed an issue where swapping items immediately after using Bard’s skill could cause the skill’s effect to not apply.
   • Fixed an issue in Goblin Cave, within Goblin Town A and B modules, where only certain classes could climb the terrain.
   • Fixed an issue where the Survival Bow could appear bent like the Recurve Bow when drawn.
   • Fixed an issue where sounds might not play when swinging weapons or using utility items.
   • Fixed an issue where Barbarian’s Savage Roar might not function correctly if used when monsters summoned by a boss were getting up.
   • Fixed an issue where the Mimic might not attack the target it interacted with.
   • Fixed an issue where, after blocking a projectile thrown by a Frost Imp, swinging a weapon could cause attacks to be blocked midair.
   • Fixed an issue in The Frost Mountain – Ice Cavern, Quarry module, where some monsters could fail to climb hills.
   • Fixed an issue where a solo player who teamed up with a pre-made duo through random matchmaking might not appear in the Recent Party Members list after leaving the dungeon.
   • Fixed an issue where leveling up through quest reward experience might not update correctly on party members’ screens.
   • Fixed an issue where chat messages from blocked party members could still appear in the chat window.
   • Fixed an issue where players who set My Status to offline could still appear in the player list.
   • Fixed an issue where equipping certain gear on Skeleton-type races could cause the model to appear clipped.
   • Fixed an issue where, if a Nameplate Skin was equipped while My Status was set to offline, other players could still tell whether the user was online.
   • Fixed an issue where the sound of the first item listed in the Marketplace could play every time the player exited the Marketplace.

Game Updates:

• The anti-cheat system has been further strengthened to effectively counter various cheats. This is aimed at providing a fairer gaming environment, and the scope of its application will be gradually expanded.
• If a security vulnerability is detected on your local PC in the future, preventing the game from running normally, you can refer to the FAQ at the link below for a solution: https://darkanddarker.com/support/search/41049252306836
• If you need assistance at any time, please submit a ticket through our website, and we will do our best to help you.
• The Twitch Drops Campaign will run from September 26 to October 5.
• A new season has begun. Experience brand-new content and features.
• Early Access Season 6 and 6.9 Rank Rewards are now available to claim.
• New Cosmetic items have been added to the Shop.
• A new Seasonal Pack is available. Check the Shop for details.
• The Dungeon Selection screen has been improved into a campaign book format.
• A new dungeon, ‘The Blue Maelstrom’ (Normal), has been added.
• The new ‘Squires to Riches’ mode has been added.
• The Faustian Bargain feature has been added.
• A new Woodcutting feature has been added. Try chopping down trees placed in dungeons.
• The Druid’s Penguin Form has been added.
• New Armor and Weapons have been added.
• A guard function has been added to all weapons without secondary attacks. Guard is activated with Right Click for main-hand weapons and with Left Click for off-hand weapons.
• Additionally, the Rapier has been given a Riposte attack.
• Sound effects have been improved so that weapon strikes better reflect the material of the target.
• Certain actions of the Nightmare Living Armor have been adjusted.
• Solo, Duo, and Trio Adventure Ranks have been unified.
• The ‘Hall of Fame’ has been added to the Leaderboard.
• You can no longer view the Account Names of players who are not on your friends list.
• A new Merchant, the ‘Navigator’, has been added.
• A new Repeatable Quest system has been added. Certain quests now reset daily or weekly, allowing you to continuously earn rewards.

Balance Updates:General

• Headshot damage multiplier has been reduced from 200% to 175%.
• Health of Living Statues has been reduced.
• Gem Socketing costs for low rarity gems have been reduced: Uncommon 30 → 10, Rare 50 → 20.

Fighter

• Combo Attack: Grants 10% bonus physical damage per stack for consecutive melee attacks within 2 seconds, stacking up to 2 times.
• Adrenaline Spike: Additionally, you gain a 3% movement speed bonus and 30% regular interaction speed, do not receive the penalty for using the Adrenaline Rush skill, and the cooldown has been reduced from 60 seconds to 28 seconds.
• Slayer: Grants an additional 10 movement speed.
• Projectile Resistance: Additionaly, reduces projectile damage by 15% while in defensive stance.
• Weapon Mastery: No longer applies any penalty.
• Defense Mastery: Defense rating bonus increased from 10% to 15%.
• Barricade: Defense rating and magic resistance increased from 50 to 75.
• Victory Strike: Physical damage bonus has been increased from 20% to 40%, and the health restoration effect has been removed. If this attack kills a player, the skill will trigger again with no cooldown. (In the next patch, the name will be changed to “Finishing Blow”.)
• Perfect Block: Duration increased from 6 seconds to 8 seconds.
• Spell Reflection: Grants a constant 15% magic damage reduction until a spell is reflected when the skill is active.
• Shield Slam: Physical damage reduced from 45 to 30.
• Taunt: Increases monster aggro by 50% to 300% when used.

Barbarian

• Savage: Gains 1 Impact instead of Impact Resistance.
• Crush: When wielding a two-handed weapon, can destroy reinforced doors and chests with one strike, and gains 1 Impact while wielding a two-handed weapon.
• Carnage: Striking 2 or more players with a melee weapon within 1.5 seconds grants 40% bonus physical damage for 3 seconds.
• Executioner: Increases headshot damage with axes from 10% to 20%.
• Treacherous Lungs: Grants an additional 10% cooldown reduction.
• Blood Exchange: Reduces maximum health by 10% when the skill is used and restores 10% of damage dealt during the skill duration.
• War Sacrifice: Increases all attribute gains from the skill from 5 to 8, while reducing duration from 12 seconds to 8 seconds.
• War Cry: Duration increased from 7 seconds to 10 seconds.

Rogue

• Dagger Expert: Physical damage bonus increased from 10% to 15%, and additionally grants 1 true physical damage.
• Thrust: Armor penetration increased from 20% to 25%.
• Creep: Gains an additional 10% movement speed while crouching and walking.
• Back Attack: The angle for detecting back attacks increased from 90° to 120°.
• Caltrops: Automatically recovers every 28 seconds. Can be stored up to 3 times.
• Smoke Pot: Automatically recovers every 60 seconds, and movement speed penalty inside smoke reduced from 10% to 5%.

Ranger

• Trap Mastery: Installs trap-type items instantly and retrieves them when disarmed.
• Camping Mastery: Installs campfires instantly and doubles their duration.
• Purge Shot: Changed from a skill to a passive effect, removing one random magical buff from the target with each ranged weapon hit and dealing 3 true magical damage.
• Field Ration: Healing amount increased from 25 to 40, quantity reduced from 3 to 2, and can now be replenished using a campfire.
• Forceful Shot: Duration increased from 8 seconds to 10 seconds.
• Penetrating Shot: Additionally, Attacks with bows and crossbows now pierce targets.

Wizard

• Melt: Applies an additional 10% projectile damage reduction penalty.
• Sage: Knowledge bonus increased from 10% to 15%.

Cleric

• Brewmaster: Increases the duration of drunken effects by 50%.
• Holy Water: Additionally, harmful magic effects are removed and blessing effects are applied.
• Kindness: Healing amount increased from 15% to 30%.
• Requiem: Additionally, reduces ally resurrection time by 50% when using resurrection spells.

Bard

• Lore Mastery: General interaction speed increased from 25% to 30% and additionally grants 5 extra memory capacity.
• Rapier Mastery: Weapon attack increased from 2 to 3.
• Melodic Protection: Physical damage reduction changed from 30% to 25% and magic damage reduction set to 25%.
• Story Teller: Will increase changed from 3 to 5.
• Wanderer’s Luck: Luck increased from 50 to 100.
• Encore: Resets the duration of all music buffs applied to nearby party members.
• Party Maker: Grants all nearby allies a 15-second immunity to intoxication; drinking while immune restores 5 health.
• Tranquility: Additional health recovered during rest increased from 1 to 2, duration changed from 10/20/30 seconds to 10/15/20 seconds.
• Song of Shadow: Duration increased from 10/15/20 seconds to 10/20/30 seconds.
• Din of Darkness: Dark magic damage attribute bonus ratio increased from 0.06/0.09/0.12 to 0.16/0.33/0.5.
• Piercing Shrill: Physical damage increased from 15/20/25 to 20/25/30.

Warlock

• Dark Enhancement: Spell power bonus increased from 10% to 20%.
• Soul Collector: The condition for consuming Dark Shards has changed from casting a Dark magic spell to dealing Dark magic damage.
• Immortal Lament: When health falls below 5%, magic healing bonus is increased by 100% for 5 seconds.
• Infernal Pledge: Damage reduction from Undead and Demons has been increased from 25% to 40%.
• Malice: Will increase changed from 10% to 15%.
• Dark Reflection: Dark magic damage increased from 10 to 15.
• Dark Offering: Duration increased from 15 seconds to 45 seconds.
• Exploitation Strike: Now applies only to unarmed attacks instead of physical attacks, and its duration has been increased from 4 seconds to 15 seconds. Bonus magic damage has been increased from 4 → 15, and health restoration has been increased from 5% → 10%.
• Phantomize: Cancel motion has been added.
• Ray of Darkness: Beam size increased, making it easier to hit targets.
• Eldritch Shield: Duration increased from 4 seconds to 6 seconds. During the effect, Dark magic damage bonus increased from 20% to 30%, and Dark magic casting speed is increased by 50%

Druid

• Shapeshift Mastery: Instead of a magic damage penalty, you can no longer use elemental spirit spells.
• Natural Healing: Grants a 10% bonus to magic healing attributes.
• Herbal Sensing: Detects a wider area and increases the chance of harvesting higher-grade herbs.
• Barkskin Armor: Defense rating increase raised from 25 to 50, and can now be cast on targets other than yourself.
• Insect Predation: Fixed an issue where health recovery did not scale properly with resourcefulness.

Sorcerer

• Time Distortion: Magic damage bonus penalty reduced from 25% to 15%. Each spell cast reduces action speed and movement speed by 3% up to 5 times. The debuff lasts 8 seconds and is removed after the duration ends.
• Spell Stride: Movement speed bonus increased from 5% to 25%.
• Lightning Mastery: Grants an additional 25% Lightning magic damage bonus, and the activation interval of Lightning magic damage is reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
• Elemental Fury: Gains an additional 0.1% movement speed bonus for every 1% of health lost.
• Windblast: Now activates 0.6 seconds after spell casting.
• Electric Dash: Expands the damage area upon arrival, dealing Lightning magic damage and applying Shock effects to a larger range. Lightning magic damage is reduced from 20 to 15.
• Earth Elemental: Defense rating increase raised from 30 to 50.
• Frost Lightning: Immobilizing duration on targets hit reduced from 2.0s to 1.75s.
• Lightning Vortex: Magical Damage reduced from 30 to 20.

Item

• Warlocks can now use the Kris Dagger.
• Weapon Damage of all Rapiers increased by 1.
• Weapon Damage of all Lantern Shields increased by 3.
• Weapon Damage of all Falchions decreased by 2.
• Crossbow: Weapon Damage increased by 2.
• Windlass Crossbow: Weapon Damage range now starts at 43 and increases in +2 increments(43~56)
• Maximum count of Arrows and Bolts has been adjusted to 30 and 20, respectively.
• New options added: Headshot Damage Bonus, Undead Damage Bonus, Undead Damage Reduction, Demon Damage Bonus, Demon Damage Reduction.

IRONMACE’s Comments

15 May

“This update makes several changes to help put a bit more gold into the economy. This includes lowering the prices of healing items, reducing the Expressman fee, and improving the drop rates for the Normal-Rare, HR-Epic, and HR-Unlimited dungeons. We’ve also made slight class balance changes to the skills and perks that were overtuned from the previous update. Thank you and see you in the dungeons!”

How to Check the Dark and Darker Server Status

Unlike most games, there are few ways to check the Dark and Darker server status. Here are all the ways you can know if the servers are down.

1. Dark and Darker Discord – You can visit the game Discord Channel and go to the second “Server Status” to find out the current server status of the game.
2. Follow us on X – You can also follow us on X. We share the details of maintenance and server downtime regularly.
3. Reddit—If there is downtime or other issues with the servers, you will find posts from other users. When too many people have the same errors, it’s usually the servers’ fault.

Fix Dark and Darker Server Errors

If the fault is not at the server end, the issue may lie with your internet connection. You will need to resolve the issue on your end to play Dark and Darker. Here are some fixes you can try to resolve server connectivity issues.

1. Reboot the device after getting the error and try playing the game again.
2. Reset the router/modem.
3. Try using a mobile hotspot to connect to the game or use another ISP.
4. Do not use a VPN.
5. Clear the Steam Download Cache.
6. Install the latest version of the game, or update the game.
7. Verify the game files.
8. Reinstall the game.