Essential Mod experienced a minor incident on October 29, 2025, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- resolved Oct 29, 2025, 09:00 AM UTC
Type: Maintenance Duration: 13 hours and 8 minutes Affected Components: World Hosting, Connection Manager, Payments, Chat, Authentication, Wardrobe Oct 29, 09:00:00 GMT+0 - Identified - We will be undergoing scheduled maintenance during this time. You will be unable to: * Use the Essential chat * Join or start hosting worlds * Use cosmetics/emotes * Upload screenshots via the screenshot manager Oct 29, 09:00:01 GMT+0 - Identified - Maintenance is now in progress Oct 29, 15:08:28 GMT+0 - Identified - The maintenance is still in progress, we have extended the downtime by an hour. Oct 29, 17:54:01 GMT+0 - Identified - Maintenance is still in progress. We are currently doing final testing before we open the Essential network again. Microsoft currently has an outage which is preventing us from doing this final testing, however, so we will update this status page once the Microsoft outage is resolved: Oct 29, 20:06:59 GMT+0 - Identified - Our maintenance is almost complete, but the Essential network cannot be brought back online due to Microsoft having issues with their infrastructure. Microsoft are estimating that their issues will be solved at 23:20 UTC. We will give an update once the Microsoft outage is resolved. Oct 29, 21:50:20 GMT+0 - Identified - The maintenance has been completed and users should be able to connect to the Essential Network. However, users may experience instability when using Essential. We are currently working on a fix for this issue. Oct 29, 22:07:59 GMT+0 - Completed - Maintenance has completed successfully.