Athos news & patch notes

We’re excited to share more details about one of the big features coming in our next major update: the new saddle system for mounts in Athos. This system will add more depth and flexibility to how you use your dino companions, giving you the ability to customize them for different playstyles and situations.

At its core, the saddle system introduces three main saddle types:

• Transport Saddle – Designed for utility and hauling power, this saddle boosts weight capacity and transport-related stats, making it easier to move large amounts of crafted resources or heavy items across the world.

• Runner Saddle – Built for speed and mobility, the runner saddle improves movement stats, allowing your dino mount to travel faster across rough terrain and cover long distances in record time.

• Armor Saddle – Focused on combat readiness, this saddle increases armor and protection, giving your mount greater durability and turning it into a fearsome ally in battles.

One of the most exciting parts of this system is that saddles and their gear will be modular and interchangeable. This means you can combine elements from different saddle types to create hybrid builds that fit your needs. For example, mix armor with runner gear to balance speed and combat efficiency, or combine armor with transport upgrades to move heavy loads while still staying protected on the road.

Alongside the saddle system, this update will also bring a major engine upgrade to Unreal Engine 5.6, delivering a host of new features, optimizations, and bug fixes that will make Athos look and play better than ever. This upgrade will also mark the beginning of our preparations to bring Athos to Xbox and PlayStation platforms, expanding the world of Athos to even more players.

Stay tuned for the official release date of this update—it’s going to be a big one!

Greetings Adventurers!

This update brings major improvements to gameplay, dino behavior, and quality-of-life features. From new rideable beasts to a refined interface and expanded world-building opportunities, the island of Athos just got a whole lot more exciting. Here's what's new: Gameplay & Feature Updates

• Basic Controller Support Added Initial controller support has been implemented! Further refinement and testing are underway—feedback is welcome.

• New Tutorial Quest Start your journey with a guided quest to teach you survival basics, from gathering to crafting and combat.

• Dino Behavior Enhancements

  • Tamed dinos now slowly regenerate health after recovering from a coma.

  • Dead dinos can no longer move or be ridden.

  • Dying while mounted no longer locks your screen.

  • Dino settings are now saved properly during game saves.

  • Inventory slots adjust dynamically when adding a Transport Saddle.

  • Dinos now slow down when approaching you while following.

  • Tamed dinos will stay in place after your death instead of wandering off.

  • Dinos set to Guard mode will actively protect the player from nearby threats.

Tameable & Rideable Dinosaurs

• T-Rex – Can now be tamed and ridden.

• Spinosaurus – Fully tameable and rideable.

• Sarcosuchus – Tame it, ride it, fear it.

• Velociraptor – Now tamable with added saddle support.

Note: Carnivorous dinosaurs now require at least 50% health before the taming process can begin.

New Additions & Improvements

• Dino Info Page View detailed dietary info for each dino—know what they eat before you tame!

• New Ruins Locations Discover ancient ruins around the island, perfect for building your base with natural protection and ambiance.

• Combat & Taming Improvements Enhanced dinosaur combat responsiveness and more intuitive taming mechanics.

• UI Overhaul Enjoy a new and improved interface, bringing a cleaner and more immersive experience to Athos.

Known Issues

• After taming a dinosaur, the first save/load may cause the saddle and inventory items to appear missing. → Workaround: Saving the game again after the first load will preserve all items and saddle correctly.

Thank you for playing Athos and continuing to help shape the game with your feedback! More updates are on the way.

• Fixed dinosaurs continuously spawning in which slowly creates lag till game is unplayable, dinosaurs will only spawn when player is near and de-spawn when players leave area.
• Fixed max level crash, game will no longer crash when player reach max level.
• Fixed foliage respawning in building.
• Fixed bug where ash would continuously produces rapidly, lowering frame rates.
• Items will now first stack in the Hotbar and then in the inventory when its being looted.
• Fixed the pickup of some building items so players can pick them up with a Mullet.
• Added Uncommon, rare and Epic weapons for some of the crafted and dropped swords in the game. which will add extra bonuses when equipped.
• Fixed Block so when you block it will drain stamina and reset when player gets hit.
• Equipment will add proper amount of armor and players will deflect that amount of damage up to a max amount of 70% dependent on how much armor a player has.
• Added Bestiary page with dinosaur details on what they like to eat. Can see the page when you press "N"
• Fix the bow bug , now players wont have problems shooting arrows.
• Added Deinocheirus Dinosaur to the world.
• Balanced combat between NPC's and player.
• Changed eating and Drinking animations, allowing players to eat and drink faster.

• Improved Dinosaur AI, dinosaurs will now move and turn to align themselves with the player before they attack a player. This is more realistic than just turning in place.
• Converted all inputs to the New Unreal Engine Inputs system.
• Dinosaurs will now do damage to NPC's when they attack them.
• Fixed saddle slot not showing up on some tamed dinosaurs.
• Dinosaur will no longer turn into the player when he get's tamed.
• Guard settings on tamed Dinosaurs will now set the dinosaur to follow the player and when the player is attacked it will attack the creature or NPC that Attacked the player.
• Added sort options for containers to sort between name, value and amount. It also auto stacks items when sorting.
• New Building Blueprints added: Stone Gateway, Stone Gateway Door, Seed Maker.
• New Armor Blueprints added: Chainmail Chest, Chainmail Pants, Chainmail Gloves, Chainmail Boots.
• New Weapon Blueprint added: Metal Cutlass

• New Skel Pirate faction mobs added
• New Weapons added
• New Ferment Barrel added
• New Drink Recipes added which will add additional buffs to character.
• Fixed food over time effects.
• Changed the Gateway Building items so you can place them down on foundations now also and redesign them to work within building core base and not just as perimeter walls.
• Upgraded and revamped User Interface.
• Fix dinosaurs not turning to attack player when attacked from behind.
• New building merchant added

• Fixed Well to allow placing watering can inside the inventory.
• Added a hunger amount to all vegetables you farm so when eaten it increases hunger.
• Added Pillar Blueprints and pillars for building.
• Added Grill Blueprint and new food recipes for cooking.
• Certain cooked food will now give a extra stat buff for a small amount of time.
• New merchants added to the trading stations.
• New Composter Blueprint added which will be needed to make fertilizer for farming.
• New Monacu Tribe Faction added who will drop resources to summon your own followers.
• Treasure chests has been added with loot like ability points scrolls allowing players to gain extra ability points without leveling.
• New POI ruins has been added.
• Dinosaurs will now be able to harvest resources when a rider attacks a resource node. Do note different dinosaurs will only harvest certain resources.
• All herbivores are now ridable.
• Fixed the bigger dinosaurs from tilling forward when attacking.
• Fixed dinosaurs from rotating to slowly when they turn to attack.

• 12 seeds types added for planting in planters.
• Effects added to pickup resources so when a player picks them up it shows a effect.
• Small Crop plot and other farming items added to Blueprints.
• Test merchant added which will buy and sell seeds.
• New ocean system added with waves on the beach.
• Added the ability for guild members to open doors and other access restricted items.
• Added in stackable foundations.
• Added in ceilings to foundation snapping and vice versa.
• Snap down from walls.
• Added pick up to most building items via the Mallet Menu.
• Added in wild dinosaur levels
• Wild dinosaur levels now effect dinosaur stats

• Changed stack limit for past and not allow it to be placed on action bar.

• Added quality types to tools; you can loot better quality items like uncommon, rare or epic items.
• Added in repair station where you can repair tools and other items.
• New higher quality resources added which will be used for crafting and repairing better quality items.
• Added more spawn points for dinosaurs.
• New guild system so players can form their own guilds, invite players to their guild and see who is online in a multiplayer game.
• Reworked Dinosaur taming which allows players to feed them by hand. If it is a herbivore, you can feed them right away if you have the right food in your inventory. If it is a carnivore, you will need to get their health below 50% before you can feed them. Each dinosaur will have a preferred diet. Using items like berry paste or meat sacks will tame the animals faster.
• Added leveling system to tamed dinosaurs which allows you to level your tame and improve their stats.
• We have limited commands in tames for now, more to come soon.
• Reworked wild dinosaurs added levels. Wild dinosaurs will also level up when they kill another dinosaur.
• Added mount system. Currently only a Parasaurolophus and a Triceratops have saddles to mount them. You can ride and attack with them.
• Added two types of saddles to craft, each giving a dinosaur various stats in the future.
• Added Shelter effects when inside/under a roof or ceiling, so you get less cold.
• Added two new dinosaurs: Brachiosaurus and Diplodocus.
• Improved the environment off the world.

• Fixed Stair collision on POI.
• Improved NPC movement and combat.
• Server optimization.
• Fixed Sleeping Animation.
• Fixed instances where many beds would show up for respawn use.

• New Redwood Biome Added.
• New World Map added, allowing players to see base and bed locations. Pressing M will open up the map and players can right-click on the map to set a waypoint.
• New Compass allowing you to see what direction a player is going.
• New models for Spino, Sarco and Dilo mobs.
• Tribal NPC groups added.
• New Underwater effects added.
• New character creation and improved character setup with cloth system.
• New Clothing added.
• Improved and optimized Lighting and foliage rendering.
• Brand new Main Menu UI and many other UI elements.
• Foliage optimization's to improve server performance.
• Remove "E" pickup message from foliage.
• Created the ability to start a new player in game.
• Fixed planks not showing up.
• Fixed flying simple bed.
• Fixed non primary tools not giving the correct resources back.
• Fixed characters not sleeping when logged out.
• Player will always take minimal damage regardless of amount of armor.
• Added compass and map system.
• Fixed fishing.

• New Player Characters and clothing.
• Both Male and female options.
• New Tribal clothing.
• Some new POI which will eb filled with NPC's later.
• Improved harvesting performance.
• Performance optimizations.
• XP Multiplier now works on dedicated.
• Time of day and weather should now save properly.
• Activated Lumen Lighting for better lighting.
• New Ocean system which we will further improve later.

• New Weapons - As this is a primitive era, we will have weapons like swords, bows, crossbows and other handheld types.
• World improvements - We will be adding in more POI with quest opportunities and different types of mobs.
• Ai Balancing and improvements to Dinosaurs - This is very high on our priority list. We need additional improvement on the Dinosaurs AI, adding in a more engaging ecosystem where carnivores will only attack herbivores when they get hungry. Population controls will be implemented; if there are more herbivores in a region, more carnivores will spawn in and balance the population. We will also work on the basic AI movement improvements and prevention of dinosaurs getting stuck. Bigger dinosaurs like a T-Rex should be destroying trees as they walk and so forth.
• Adding in NPC factions/tribes - Due to the way we intend to develop Athos as more of a RPG/Survival game, we will introduce NPC factions/tribes. Players will be able to engage with these factions on the map, either increasing or decreasing their faction stance. Some might require you to attack other factions to gain favor or do certain quests. This will also open up trading options which could include selling items to a tribe gaining tokens to be used for trading between players or trading with other factions.
• Adding First person view - Both first person and third person view will be supported.
• Player Tribe System - Allowing players to create and manage their own tribes, setting options on access to chests and doors, ranking tribe members and forming alliances with other player tribes will be added.
• Player In-game trading system - the option for players to place down merchants to sell their goods will be developed, in addition to trading between players with a trading interface.
• Improved Animations on Player characters - As we continue development, we will be doing improvements and polishing all aspects of the game including the player animations so they are more engaging.
• Sailing System - To allow us to bring out other world maps that could be more island based, we will be adding a sailing system with different options on how to traverse the water. From swimming mounts to sailing ships.
• Add in more clothing options - With Athos having a variety of different armor sets and clothing, this will play a big role in how the game is played, some clothing and achievements may add better stats and temperatures resists, while others can be worn for style. Being able to dye each piece is also important to have that unique look in the game.
• Improve server creation and server optimization - Continuous improvements to the server creation and stability will be developed.
• Building system improvements - We are planning to polish existing building system and add in additional build type pieces. We also want to add more styles of a building which could be unlocked though quests or completion of certain server achievements.
• Improve and polish combat - Combat balancing and improvements will allow for a better game play experience.

• Fixed slider on blueprint craft amount
• Fixed crash after reaching max level
• Fixed UI prompt to interact with untamed dino's
• Made taming treats pickup able after placing

• Fixed doors not saving position
• Fixed doors open status when leaving render range
• Fixed doors being able to be opened by anyone in PvE
• Fixed selected items overlay
• Added durability to the torch (should last most of the night with continual use)
• Set thatch bed to be able to be placed on the landscape
• Fixed bug when dropping spear
• Added ability to hide the HUD (Backspace by default)
• Added in max craft amount slider
• Removed foliage respawn blocker (till we fix the issue with them repsawning)

• Explore a big world with roaming dinosaurs.
• Player crafting and building.
• Tame and command dinosaurs.
• Base combat system.
• Harvesting system.
• Progression system with over 100 plus engrams to learn.
• Single player and self hosting sessions are available.
• Server settings allowing customized server setups.
• Base fishing system.

• NPC tribes.
• Player trading system between tribes and other players.
• Player tribe system.
• More player customizations on character creation.
• More types of dinosaurs.
• More types of taming methods.
• In-depth mount system allowing dinosaurs to wear armor and have various saddle types.
• Quest system for better PvE game play.
• More world lore to complement the quest system.
• More variety in the environment.
• More variety of maps to choose from.