Modular ship building, new enemies, environmental hazards, and deeper exploration arrive in the next Founder Access update
REYKJAVÍK, Iceland – May 15, 2026 – Today, Fenris Creations announced Cycle 6: Sanctuary for EVE Frontier, the in development hardcore space survival game, introducing modular ships, expanded exploration and new environmental dangers that reshape how players move, survive, and compete within the Frontier. Starting June 25, 2026, Cycle 6 includes a full game server reset, giving new and returning players a fresh start and a level playing field from day one.
EVE Frontier is set in a hostile, decayed galaxy where civilization lies in ruins. Awakened by the KEEP from forgotten data graves, players enter the cruel dark as Riders, remnants of a lost age, bound to their ships and forced to survive. Sanctuary continues Cycle-based development, where new features, systems and content are deployed into the Frontier’s shared online galaxy, tested at scale, and refined in close collaboration with the Founder Access community.
“Sanctuary puts the core systems of EVE Frontier front and center,” said Sæmundur Hermannsson, Game Director for EVE Frontier. “This is the foundation of the experience: building your ship, pushing deeper into the unknown as the world becomes more hostile, and making constant decisions about where to go, what to risk, and how to survive as everything and everyone shifts around you.”
“This is our most impactful update yet,” said David Bowman, Development Director for EVE Frontier. “Modular ships, Dormant Gates, environmental hazards, and new enemies all move the game toward the same goal: giving players more agency in a galaxy that is innately dangerous and shaped by what they build, discover, and fight for.”
The introduction of modular ships adds a powerful new layer of player-driven progression and customization. Players begin with the Seed of a vessel and expand its capabilities over time by acquiring, evolving, and integrating new modules that unlock additional functionality, specialization, and strategic options. Together with modular base-building, this new feature aims to give players greater control over how they survive, adapt, and establish themselves across the Frontier.
Navigation now requires greater care, knowledge, and awareness of your surroundings. Built around the game’s grounded-in-science design philosophy, space is no longer just a backdrop for conflict, but an active environmental threat. New thermal, electromagnetic, and gravitational status effects caused by the cold of deep space, the heat and light of nearby stars, planetary conditions, and other cosmic phenomena now impact scanning, character progression, and ship condition. Survival now extends beyond combat, as space itself becomes a persistent danger players must learn to account for.
Dormant Gates, ancient structures that have remained inactive for aeons, now lie scattered across starter systems. Players can repair, reenergize, and reactivate these gates, unlocking access to new star systems.
New Feral enemies and updated drone behaviors expand PvE combat. Ferals now compete for resources, defend key areas, and respond more dynamically to player actions, creating more reactive and unpredictable encounters. Leeches attach themselves to ships and begin extracting resources directly from their targets. Once filled, they disengage and retreat to hidden locations where they transform into chrysalises, processing harvested materials before emerging as Wreck Stalkers, lethal mini-bosses players can confront at their own risk.
For more information about EVE Frontier, visit www.evefrontier.com. An FAQ can be found at www.evefrontier.com/faq. Assets for EVE Frontier can be found in the press kit.
About EVE Frontier®
EVE Frontier is a hardcore space survival game. Awakened as a Rider from the static dark of exospace, you are a relic of humanity’s lost age, incarnated into Shells and cast into a galaxy where civilization has rotted in the ruins of its ambition. Feral drone swarms haunt the wastes, ancient machines still hunger, and those who remain fight to control the resources that keep the dark at bay. In the shadow of the Trinary, who will you become? Learn more: www.evefrontier.com.
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About Fenris Creations
Fenris Creations is an independent video game developer headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland, with studios in London and Shanghai. Founded in 1997 on the principle of pushing the envelope and breaking new ground on all levels, the company is on a mission to create virtual worlds more meaningful than real life. With the launch of EVE Online in May 2003, Fenris Creations established itself as a pioneer of massively multiplayer online games, earning critical acclaim worldwide for its single-shard universe, player-driven economy, and emergent gameplay. Fenris Creations continues to build deep, persistent virtual worlds designed to evolve over decades in close partnership with their communities.
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