This is an advance notice that, in order to complete important maintenance on the system, Dovetail Live will be turned off from 08:00 BST on Thursday, 14 May. This will mean that all services that use our online systems (Mastery, Creators Club, Railfan Shots, in-game news articles), will be inaccessible for the duration of the maintenance. Players will not be able to log into our forums, but if already logged in, should be able to post.

We expect this to last up to 24 hours, but we will endeavour to keep disruption to a minimum. We will confirm when the systems are back up and operational again.

For users that were signed in, Mastery will switch to offline recording, and events will be saved in save files, up to a limit. When the system is back up, the next time the game is started, the recorded stats will be sent to the server. Therefore, you should not lose your progress.

Players will also not be able to create a Dovetail Live or Forum account during this time.

We thank you in advance for your patience whilst we complete this necessary work.

UPDATE 15.05.2026 9:45AM: The maintenance is now complete and service should be back to normal.