The Sandbox Studio Beta has been rebuilt on Engine 14, replacing the legacy Actor/SceneComponent framework with a unified SceneNode system that lets any node serve as a placeable scene root.

Multiplayer replication now uses ReplicationGroup channels and supports client-targeted spawning, enabling servers to create objects visible only to specific players for use cases like instanced loot, private puzzle states, or per-player UI elements.

Genesys MCP Server implements the Model Context Protocol, enabling AI-driven scene editing with concurrent mutations and hinting at support for third-party AI agents operating directly on scene graphs.

Two new templates—Side-scrolling and 3rd-person Action—expand Studio’s reach beyond voxel building, adding features such as multi-object selection, mesh merging, and improved navmesh for nested scenes.

Prefabs become first-class assets that can be created, saved, and edited in the main scene view, with on-the-fly instance overrides and improved nested-prefab handling that avoids regenerating GUIDs on save.

The AI Assistant is now publicly available across all Studio projects, with Cursor as the recommended AI provider and a sign-in flow that loads providers instantly.

Version 14 introduces three breaking changes: the SceneNode tree, the Adoption of ReplicationGroup, and the removal of the actorReference property type, signaling a substantial architectural shift.