Ember's Verge news & patch notes

• Fixed inventory info panel showing incorrect item weights.
• Items on a table shouldn’t fall under the table, if removing snow outside.
• Brightness settings will be restored when starting the game.
• Some furniture could be placed on an unfinished wall. Now fixed.
• The copy height tool (terraforming) has more info added, when placement is rejected.
• If the player “tabs out” from the game during the game load or start, could result in some unexpected inventory behavior. Now the game should restore the correct values for the UI when coming back to the game.
• Sometimes tabbing out during the load phase might cause the game to crash.

Greetings, bushcrafters!

Here’s a new update patch! The primary focus of this update has been fixing bugs. Thanks to the youtubers who are playing the game! Watching your gameplay allows me to catch issues and gather feedback immediately. I also wanted to add a few new things, which are mentioned below.

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Also, if you've been enjoying the game, please consider leaving a Steam review. It’s the best way to support a solo project like this!

New door models

• Each door tier has their own models created except the mud wall door.

• Resource requirements for wood and tile door walls have been updated.

Quality of Life

• Eat from the ground: Food can now be consumed directly from the ground using the interact key. To prevent conflicts with creating item piles, foods that can be piled (like cattail) cannot be eaten directly from the ground. Note: This feature can be disabled in the game menu.

• Upgrading walls/roofs now “refunds” those few items, which you get when dismantling a construction.

• Stick and twig spawns: Earlier only birch spawned sticks and maple spawned twigs. Because of this a player might not find sticks, if there were only maples around. Now the spawn table has been unified to most of the tree types. (Tip: Remember to pick up or slightly move items spawned on the ground if you plan to collect them later. Otherwise the item can disappear.)

• Wind effect Windy weather (strong gale or storm) resets trees' spawn times.

• Wanderer resource spawn rate The spawn chance for the Wanderer has also been slightly increased.

Other Updates & Fixes:

• The new iron cauldron: A new item offers a massive durability for cooking. It’s almost unbreakable. Also a crafting mold for the cauldron has been added to the recipes.

• UI: Various minor visual improvements to the game's user interface (UI).

• Fixed bug: Fahrenheit temperatures now display correctly for both the environment and character stats.

• Fixed bug: The inventory info panel displayed incorrect weights for stacked items.

• Fixed bug: Septic wounds will now correctly cause HP loss over time.

• Fixed bug: Fixed an issue where players could open the inventory during a wolf struggle, which caused the camera angle to reset.

• Fixed bug: Players will no longer heal while sleeping if they have untreated wounds.

• Fixed bug: Fixed a rare issue where picking up an item could accidentally cause it to visually stick to the player’s right or left hand.

• Fixed bug: Item piles couldn’t be interacted with through the water surface.

• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Known issues:

• When assigning food items to fire, the model size might appear much larger than expected.

• Item piles may break at some point where items are detached. This may cause items e.g. “ending up below a table”.

Thank you for your support, and happy surviving! - Feralless games

Greetings, bushcrafters!

Here are the patch notes for this update! There have been issues with piles not being interactive and therefore the player hasn’t been able to move or pick items from piles. Also items have disappeared through the terrain. After this patch these issues are hopefully resolved. However if anything comes up, please issue a bug report. The best way to do this is through discord. Got feedback? Join the Discord and share your thoughts! https://discord.com/invite/t9mevX9jDf

Also, if you've been enjoying the game, please consider leaving a Steam review. It’s the best way to support a solo project like this!

Iron hoe

• The new iron hoe offers a faster way to dig ground while providing superior efficiency and durability.

• Also a hoe head mold and the iron hoe head itself have also been added, as crafting iron tier tools requires these intermediate components.

Item freezing and thawing during winter:

• The new system should be more robust and hopefully less prone to errors.

• The Inventory UI now shows the current item state (either frozen/thawing or freezing). This also helps players to provide much needed info if bugs appear.

• Same info also available in the world UI.

• Disabled item freezing option during the winter in the custom settings. Now items will always freeze during winter. Will return if needed and after properly tested.

Other Updates & Fixes:

• New resolution added: 1920x1200. Note: Saved resolution has been reset to DEFAULT. Please re-assign your preferred resolution in the settings.

• Bird flocks taking off now spawn feathers on the ground

• Snow thawing time is reduced slightly on the fire.

• Fixed bug: Fixed a bug where harvested items from deposits became loose and could fall under the terrain. This caused other problems with the game physics engine.

• Fixed bug: Item piles not being interactive (related to the previous issue).

• Fixed bug: Fahrenheit temperature is now shown properly on the player’s perceived temperature.

• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Known issues:

• When assigning food items to fire, the model size might appear much larger than expected.

• A water container might not accept adding tea ingredients when trying to drag & drop. Quick fix: Try to reassign both items to the inventory.

• Item piles may break at some point where items are detached. This may cause items e.g. “ending up below a table”.

Thank you for your support, and happy surviving! - Feralless games

Greetings, bushcrafters!

Here are the patch notes for this update! This patch mainly focuses on Quality of Life improvements and crucial bug fixes, but also introduces a new attachment for your water storage to make your base setup more versatile and efficient.

Fire Fuel vs. Fuel Efficiency: For some of you, the fire fuel times may have seemed a bit confusing. Like when you added a stick worth 15 minutes of fuel, but it shows 18 minutes in the fire panel (which is nice!). This happens because of the fire source's own Fuel Efficiency. If the efficiency is high, the fuel burns longer. Also in this patch the player’s “Fire burns longer” perk has been changed to “Increased fuel gain“, which increases each burnable item’s fuel gain.

Charcoal mound mechanism: Please note that producing charcoal with the charcoal mound will yield zero charcoal if the lids are left open. There is a specific "sweet spot" timing for closing the lids that results in the highest possible charcoal yield for the current fuel amount! Got feedback? Join the Discord and share your thoughts! https://discord.com/invite/t9mevX9jDf

Also, if you've been enjoying the game, please consider leaving a Steam review. It’s the best way to support a solo project like this!

New feature: Water storage enhancement

• Rain water collector attachment: You can now upgrade your Water storage by attaching a rain water collector directly to it.

• Increased rain gathering: This enhancement directly increases the storage refill rate.

• Refill Multiplier: 2.5x

• Added a drink button to drink from water storage directly.

Quality of Life improvements:

• Protected from weather: Resources that decay during harsh weather now show a "Safe from weather" status in the UI if they are properly protected. Protection requires placing these resources inside a fully built house or a cave.

• Auto-equip item durability toggle: Added a setting in the game menu to toggle between automatic selection of the lowest or highest durability item. This affects quick-slot item swapping and automatic tool assignment (e.g., when starting to dig).

• Added fuel info: Adding fuel to candle mounts and fire stands now displays the amount of fuel added.

• Candle mount buff: The candle mount now receives approx. > 2x the fuel value originally added.

• Shaped granite can now be piled.

• Dynamic bow’s crosshair: The bow’s crosshair now shrinks in size as your archery level increases. Note: This is a visual enhancement and does not affect base aiming accuracy.

• Hit indicator: The bow crosshair now displays a small visual indicator when an arrow hits an animal.

• Water transfer panel: This has been reworked to simplify the actions.

• Codex Update: Added information regarding the game's decay systems.

Other updates & fixes:

• Change: The "Cave beach" starting point has been renamed to "Overhang beach" to better describe the actual environment.

• Change: The player's "fire burns longer" perk has been changed to “Increased fuel gain”. Leveling up fire starting skill now rewards you with more fuel value from the same fuel sources. Also the skill level progression for this attribute has been adjusted.

• Update: Small audio clip adjustments.

• Fixed bug: Dismantling a construction that only required a single raw material would return nothing. Now the system correctly returns resources.

• Fixed bug: Picking up a lit torch while the "Auto-equip picked up items" setting was disabled would cause the torch to extinguish instantly.

• Fixed bug: Fixed a bug where the "Auto-equip picked up items" toggle would always reset to enabled when starting a new game. Now the assigned setting will be remembered.

• Fixed bug: Fixed an issue where starting to dig action didn't check the player's active hand item, causing the last assigned digging tool in the inventory to override the current hand item automatically.

• Fixed bug: Fixed a bug where lake water audio after loading would still play during the winter even though the lake was completely frozen.

• Fixed bug: Occasionally items falling under a table were investigated, but the root cause hasn’t been identified. Meanwhile the table's collider has been updated and items ending up under the table can be obtained.

• Fixed bug: Fixed a bug where the charcoal mound would sometimes yield zero charcoal under specific circumstances.

• Fixed bug: Fixed an issue that allowed extra bandages to be crafted over the maximum amount in basic crafting.

• Fixed bug: Fixed a bug where a broken torch moved on the ground would fail to revert the correct texture after displaying the red placement tint.

• Fixed bug: Players will now automatically wake up before drowning if the floodwaters rise while they are sleeping.

• Fixed bug: Fixed a UI/inventory bug where the stack count didn't update properly when adding iron prills to a mold if a partial stack remained on the cursor.

• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Known issues:

• Food items might remain in a frozen state after the season changes to spring.

• When assigning food items to fire, the model size might appear much larger than expected.

• A water container might not accept adding tea ingredients when trying to drag & drop. Quick fix: Try to reassign both items to the inventory.

• Item piles may break at some point where items are detached. This may cause items e.g. “ending up below a table”.

Thank you for your support, and happy surviving! - Feralless games

Greetings, bushcrafters! The latest update is here, focusing primarily on bug fixes and community-requested Quality of Life improvements. I have also added a new Small Game Coat and a plant-drying mechanic to improve the surviving experience.

Thank you for helping me find these bugs and improve the game! Got feedback? Join the Discord and share your thoughts! https://discord.com/invite/t9mevX9jDf

Also, if you've been enjoying the game, please consider leaving a Steam review. It’s the best way to support a solo project like this! New

• Small Game Coat Added! Provides a modest warmth bonus (lower than the Deer Coat), making it a great early-game option.

• Plant Drying: You can now preserve nettles and lily flowers by drying them. Once dried, these items will only decay if left exposed to harsh weather outdoors. Collecting and drying plants for later use is now much more viable!

Quality of Life improvements:

• Stone throwing adjusted: Stone throwing trajectory has been adjusted to better align with the crosshair. Note: Because rocks are thrown from the right side of the character's body, the trajectory cannot perfectly align with the exact center of the screen, so there will still be some room for manual estimation.

• UI cursor behavior: The mouse cursor now maintains its position on the UI when crafting items or harvesting an animal, instead of resetting to the center of the screen.

• Flat stone crafting: Players can now choose from the game menu whether flat stone crafting places the crafted item directly into their inventory or leaves it on the flat stone.

• Fire Interaction: Candles and fire stands can now be extinguished directly holding the interaction key (E default).

• Water pots: You can now drink directly from water pots using the interaction key (E default).

• Mortar: can now be piled.

• Fire panel UI: Added a "Warming" text indicator to the fire panel when the fire's temperature is not yet high enough to heat the item.

Other Updates & Fixes:

• Candle Mount: Slightly updated the model and added a small fuel drop animation.

• Oak Trees Added: New Oak trees have been introduced to the world. To avoid a full world reset, their positions were carefully chosen. Hopefully, they didn't spawn inside your bases! Please note that any trees removed in the process might have left some items floating in the air. Additionally, new oak trees will only spawn oak saplings when starting a new run.

• Granite spawns: Granite nodes are now more likely to spawn granite instead of chert stones.

• Fixed bug: Fixed a glitch where trying to lift an item pile while it was already in the moving state would get the player stuck in the item-moving phase.

• Fixed bug: Moving low-quality food in the world will no longer cause it to spoil during the move, which previously left the player stuck in the item-moving state.

• Fixed bug: Flat stone dirtiness could exceed 100%, causing food to decay instantly.

• Fixed bug: Fixed an issue where items could not be fetched from the wall rack.

• Fixed bug: Carcass harvesting speed incorrectly displayed as 1% across all experience levels.

• Fixed bug: Archery critical hit chance incorrectly displayed as 8% across all experience levels.

• Fixed bug: Clothing wind resistance stacked too heavily, completely neutralizing the effect of wind chill.

• Fixed bug: Upgraded structures received unintended massive durability stats after being dismantled.

• Fixed bug: Walls and roofs did not return added raw materials if destroyed while an upgrade was on.

• Fixed bug: Smoker wind protection wasn’t tested and couldn’t be ignited during a strong wind.

• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Known issues:

• Food items might remain in a frozen state after the season changes to spring.

• When assigning food items to fire, the model size might appear much larger than expected.

• A water container might not accept adding tea ingredients when trying to drag & drop. Quick fix: Try to reassign both items to the inventory.

• Item piles may break at some point where items are detached. This may cause items e.g. “ending up below a table”.

Thank you for your support, and happy surviving! - Feralless games

Greetings, bushcrafters! This update is all about making your survival experience smoother and your base a bit more like home.

The highlight of this patch is the new "Smart Fetch" system. You no longer need to manually hunt for missing materials from containers or piles. If the resources are nearby, the crafting menu will fetch them for you automatically! Got feedback? Join the Discord and share your thoughts! https://discord.com/invite/t9mevX9jDf

Also, if you've been enjoying the game, please consider leaving a Steam review. It’s the best way to support a solo project like this!

Fetching items from surroundings

Required crafting materials can be fetched easily if not in your inventory!

• If required item(s) are located near the player, after clicking the raw material they will be transferred to a workbench or player’s inventory depending on the crafting type.

• Can be fetched from items on the ground, item piles or containers

• Requirements: items must be within a certain range of the player and have been previously discovered/collected

• The Basic Crafting menu has been redesigned to align with the Advanced Crafting menu.

New furniture

• A candle wall mount helps you to light up your house. The candle works in the same way as a fire stand. Needs to be ignited with a torch. Uses sap and animal fat as fuel. A candle can be freely placed at a certain height, but it will have some restrictions.

• Table A sturdy, wall-mounted surface to keep your most important gear organized and off the ground. Can be placed in or outside a house.

Quality of Life improvements:

• The bed now has 4 slots underneath. A “lay down” -button was added as well, so accessing the bed’s inventory doesn't require laying down.

• Fatigue can now be seen as a red warning sign at the top of the HUD. This is a warning sign for a player as fatigue drains HP even faster.

• The transition speed to swimming has been increased.

• Player position on the map is enabled default for Explorer difficulty. Why? Generally the game has been described as hard or challenging. I wanted to ease the Explorer difficulty even a tiny bit.

• Snare feedback: Players now receive information when a snare is set, indicating if small prey is nearby or in the area. This is enabled by default on Explorer and Wanderer difficulties, but disabled on Survivor. As always, you can change this in the Custom Settings.

Other Updates & Fixes:

• Balancing: Wood and granite spawn positions increased slightly.

• Update: Distinct textures added for smoked food items to distinguish them from regular cooked food.

• Update: A basic crafting -button added to the build menu. This helps especially new players to find the basic crafting tab.

• New: When disabling vSync, there is an option to choose if FPS is capped to 60 or unlimited.

• New: Added a camera shake when a tree hits the ground and the player is near.

• New: Bees will now flee if a beehive is dropped near a lit torch. This allows to get honey without any stings!

• Fixed bug: Fatigue-related damage over time is now correctly paused during sleep. This prevents players from dying immediately after closing the eyes if their HP was critically low due to exhaustion.

• Fixed bug: When moving a fish trap and starting to swim, the "moving method stayed" while the fish trap was no longer moving.

• Fixed bug: “Ignite” keybind info was incorrectly shown with torches.

• Fixed bug: Water storage was collecting rain water while not being completed.

• Fixed bug: Setting a soil planer below a shallow cave's overhang caused the soil planer to jump up.

• Other minor bug fixes. Raw, cooked and smoked food items.

Thank you for your support, and happy surviving!

- Feralless games

Greetings, bushcrafters!

I have received a lot of great Quality of Life suggestions for Ember’s Verge and have now implemented those which bring the most value without requiring a complete refactoring of the game logic. But that’s not all! There are still more features and improvements coming in future patches. Feedback is always appreciated!

I’m also happy to see many of you playing on Steam Deck and implementing custom configurations to make the game playable. Although the game wasn’t originally designed for a Steam Deck, I wanted to add features to help with the game play.

Updated both the full game and the demo.

Got feedback? Join the Discord and share your thoughts! https://discord.com/invite/t9mevX9jDf

Also, if you've been enjoying the game, please consider leaving a Steam review. It’s the best way to support a solo project like this!

A smoker

• Works in the same way as a campfire, but doesn’t get extinguished by rain.

• Has 4 slots for cooking.

• The cooking process is slower, but enables a longer durability.

• This feature can be used with sliced meat, rabbit, bird, liver and fish. (in total ~10 smoked food variants. Will update the textures later.)

Quality of Life improvements:

• Dismantle button can be rebind. This enables players with a Steam Deck to rebind the button and dismantle buildings.

• Split stack Right click option has a split stack feature. This feature is helpful especially for Steam Deck players who cannot destack (shift + LMB) in the inventory.

• Added "Plant yielded no fiber" info when collecting plants that do not contain fiber. Hopefully this makes it clear which plant yields fiber.

• A whole item pile can be picked up all at once. This functionality is now added to default “R” and sharing the key with repair. However this doesn’t include a proper pickup animation.

• Pressing “1” (Empty Hands) with a hand item equipped and full inventory displays a helpful message that a player has dropped the hand item.

• Tree chopping can now be performed continuously by holding down the action button. The same logic is also implemented for ground digging.

• Spoiled food can now be piled. Ahh.. all the buzzing.

Balancing:

• Explorer metabolism rate has been changed to a very slow setting.

• Stamina consumption has been reduced for wood chopping and jumping and Endurance experience being added while chopping wood or making an ice hole.

Other Updates & Fixes:

• Bug: Animal harvesting camera issue fixed, where camera rotation got out of hand after harvesting a couple of times.

• Bug fix: Quartered logs could be placed on a wall rack.

• Bug fix: Wedge could be removed from a quartered log, but could be inserted back.

• Bug fix: While picking up an item and focusing with the bow caused a freeze glitch.

• Bug fix: Dirt stack dropped directly to water now transforms to mud.

• Bug fix: Wood trunks on wood drying rack were able to be placed on top of each other while having a red mesh color.

• Change: Curved Wood Trunk changed to Heavy Branch to avoid confusion with straight trunks.

• Change: A maple log or any chopped log on the ground is changed to “Log”.

• Other minor bug fixes.

Thank you for your support, and happy surviving! - Feralless games

• Custom game settings offer the option to turn on the player’s position on the map.
• Map now contains location info for moss and other resources previously missing. (If something obvious is missing, let me know!)
• Minor bug fixes

• Tinder Wood shavings now require 1 leaf branch to craft. Another option is also to harvest a branch by hand in your inventory (30 % success rate).
• Clay, mud and dirt: Durability for these items has been increased significantly. Exposure to bad weather causes these items to lose durability, but placing them inside a house (roofed) or putting them to any inventory avoids durability loss. Items acquired before the patch 1.0.15 might show extremely low durability.
• Door wall durability: Durability of mud and wood tier door walls have been increased.
• Custom game settings: Added more adjustment steps for player metabolism and food spoilage rates.

• Dismantle key bind info is displayed on construction.
• The wall rack bug fixed, where players couldn’t put anything on the wall racks if there were too many wall racks close to each other.
• Survival pointers reappearing after completing all tasks should be now fixed. The survival pointers can be manually disabled from the game options, if they are still visible.
• Static bushes (with collision) removed for now, as there was a chance of player going through the terrain when harvesting those.
• Other minor bug fixes.

• The player movement and camera systems have been decoupled from the physics engine's fixed update rate.
• This was a probable issue to cause stuttering with high-tier PCs and high-refresh rate monitors.
• Because of this change, you might need to slightly readjust your mouse sensitivity settings in the options menu.

• Soil Planner improvements: The tool now clearly displays whether a patch of ground is Deformable (modifiable) or Static (fixed).
• Digging feedback: Digging in sandy ground now provides a clear "Nothing found" info if nothing was found. But there can be better luck next time.
• Fish Trap usability: Added a notification to move the fish trap to dry ground if you attempt to open it while it's still submerged.

• Wall Rack adjustment: Item placement on wall racks has been fine-tuned for better alignment. Note: You might want to re-place your items on the rack to continue e.g. drying!
• Sharp Stick utility: Sharp sticks now function like regular sticks. They can be used for tasks like terraforming and clay harvesting.
• Item positioning: Fixed ground offset issues for several items to prevent them from clipping into the ground.
• Other minor bug fixes.

Ember's Verge is NOW AVAILABLE! (Full Release 1.0)

Shelters

• Stick Shelter: A sturdy, frame-based structure covered with leaves or moss. It is the most resilient shelter type, offering 12 slots for storage and vital protection from the wind (once enhancement added).
• Lean-to Shelter: A quick-build solution that leans directly against a tree. It provides 8 slots for your gear but leaves you exposed to the biting wind.
• Dead Tree Shelter: Built on to a frame of a dead tree. This is the most fragile option with the lowest durability, still offering 9 slots for your gear.

Primitive housing

• Enhancements: You can attach an oven, a target board, a wall rack or a bed to your house walls.
• Insulation and Durability: Higher-tier materials provide more passive warmth, a literal lifesaver when the winter temperature drops. Better structures are also more durable, requiring significantly less maintenance over time.
• Security: A fully enclosed house is your protection against wolf attacks.
• Protecting items: Some items decay during rain or strong wind. Placing these items inside the house protects from decay (birch bark, leaves, coal fungus, moss etc.).

Cultivation

• The Five Crops: Find and cultivate Carrot, Potato, Rhubarb, Swede, and Sugarbeet. While crops grow at the same rate, their nutritional value varies greatly. Smart survivors prioritize Sugarbeet for its high caloric density, making it the most efficient use of your time and water.
• Harvesting Seeds: For most vegetables, you can simply right-click the item to harvest its seeds. Potatoes work differently. Instead of harvesting seeds manually, you must let a potato "spoil" until it becomes sprouted. Once sprouted, it can be planted to start a new crop. This makes managing your potato stock a balancing act between eating and replanting.
• Hydration is Life: Every plot requires water to function. The more plants you grow in a single plot, the faster they consume its water reserves. While rainfall acts as a natural irrigation system, filling your plots to the brim, a dry spell will force you to carry water manually.
• Timing and Nutrients: Growth is a delicate balance of light, temperature, and nutrition. Use fertilizers to multiply the growth rate, but be mindful of the time of day. Since growth peaks under the midday sun and slows during cloudy weather or evenings, timing your fertilization is key to maximizing the growth speed.
• The Yield: Domestic crops grow much larger than their wild counterparts, and a harvesting will always yield two plants from a single seed. You can also harvest crops while they are not yet 100%, but this means they are also smaller.
• The Risk of Withering: Your crops are at the mercy of the seasons. If the temperature exceeds 25°C without adequate water, or if the first frost of winter hits, your crops will wither. Harvest timing and weather observation are your only defenses against losing a season's work.

The Winter Transformation

• Adapt to the Elements: Experience a world with dynamic snow coverage. As the snow physically rises, it challenges your movement and requires more energy to traverse. The frozen environment demands more from your gear: chopping frozen wood or digging into icy ground requires more effort and puts extra wear on your tools. Arrows or other items might get buried in snow until spring arrives.
• The Silver Lining: Winter offers its own unique advantages. The snow reflects the moonlight, making the nights surprisingly bright, and the freezing temperatures act as a natural refrigerator for your food. Frozen lakes open up new opportunities: hack a hole for ice fishing to keep your calories up, or use the snow itself as an infinite water source.
• Respect the Frost: While the cold is a constant "companion", it is manageable with the right strategy. A proper clothing provides vital protection, but even the best gear has its limits. Keep an eye on your temperature and plan your excursions so you always have a path back to the warmth of your fire before the frost begins to impact your health.

Drought and Flood

Organizing Your Base Without Magic Chests

• The Pile Mechanic: You can organize your resources into neat piles (up to 14 items).
• Easy Relocation: The whole item pile can be moved and rotated. This is a more natural way to organize your resources in the wilderness.
• Visual Clarity: UI will show quantity and lowest durability in the pile.
• Pileable items: Primarily for raw resources (wood, stone, etc.). Perishables and tools are managed separately due to their unique durability and spoilage traits.

• Wall Racks & Knives: Install dedicated racks on your walls or stab your knife into a tree to create an instant hanging spot to keep your gear off the ground.
• Dynamic Hanging: Use these to hang tools, dry animal hides, or cure meat.
• Backpacks: Since there are no magic chests, your crafted backpacks are your primary containers. Hang them on wall racks or knives to turn them into “primitive lockers” for better visibility and a cleaner camp, or simply keep them on the ground.

• In-ground Cellar: By digging into the ground and building a reinforced hatch, you create a functional cool cellar.
• Preservation: The cool earth acts as a natural refrigerator, significantly slowing down the spoilage rate of meat and other perishables.
• Management: This Ground Storage features a dedicated interface with 16 slots for your perishable items.

Fire – The Heart of Survival and Technology

• Versatile Fuels: Almost anything combustible can be used: wood, leaves, sap or animal fat.
• Environmental Impact: An open campfire is vulnerable. Wind and rain can extinguish it if you don't account for wind direction or provide adequate cover.
• Different Fire Sources:
  • Campfire & Oven: Used mainly for cooking, boiling water, and warmth. The oven is a superior, sheltered, and more efficient version of the campfire.
  • Firestand: A light source specifically designed to illuminate your base and ward off wolves.
  • Charcoal Mound: Bloomery works only with charcoal. Use a charcoal mound to produce larger quantities of charcoal.
  • Bloomery: Used mainly for advanced metal processing, but can also harden bricks and pottery. Items heated in bloomery cannot be removed until bloomery has cooled off enough.
• Other Functions: Fire dries wet clothing faster, deter predators and thaw frozen food or melt snow/ice in containers for drinking water during winter.

Clothing – Warmth & Protection

• Warmth and Armor: Clothing keeps you warm and provides a layer of protection against wolf attacks. Primitive armor offers only protection without warmth.
• The Risk of Wetness: If your clothes get soaked in the rain, they lose their insulation.
• Added Weight: Wet fabric absorbs water and becomes heavier, directly impacting your carrying capacity.
• Durability: Every piece of gear wears out over time. (if item decay is enabled)

Carry Weight & Fatigue

• Inventory vs. Weight: You have a limited number of slots, but also a specific weight capacity.
• Shoulder: Wood trunks and other bigger items can be only carried on your shoulder.
• Effects of Overburdening: If you exceed your carry capacity, your movement (walking and running) slows down proportionally to the extra weight.
• Endurance Skill: Your carry weight is not static. It increases as you level up your endurance skill.
• Bags: Crafting bags will provide more inventory slots, allowing you to organize and carry more items.

• Ready building templates - Creates leveling points and defines building borders - Once the area is leveled, place the ready building template and add building materials
• Permadeath option added - Hardcore players can now choose permadeath - Upon death, the save file will be permanently deleted

• Clay deposits repositioned and now scattered around inland waters
• Skill stats and experience levels adjusted
• Fur lining enhancement added to bed
• New dry grass foliage added
• Plentiful spawn rate added (can be enabled through custom game settings)
• Wall and roof placement helpers updated for clearer placement
• Waste % info added to carcass harvesting
• Items on the ground can now be moved while carrying a shoulder item
• Thunder weather fixed (previously implemented but never triggered)
• Wolf melee combat adjusted
• Piling of wood trunks and quartered logs added
• Soups now behave like food, cannot consume if not hungry
• Small improvements and a lot of various bug fixes.

• Single ingredient vegetable soups added - Players can now create soups in the same way as teas. - Soups do not degrade over time. - Provides slightly more calories than eating a plain vegetable. - Check codex and modify tab.
• Clothes wetting system - Clothes now get wet during rain or immediately when swimming. - Wet clothes increase the player’s overall carry weight. - The player will not start getting wet until an equipped jacket and/or pants are over 50% wet. Other clothing items do not provide wetness protection. - If the player is not wearing a jacket or pants, wetness will start accumulating immediately. - Clothes in the player’s inventory (waist bag or bag) accumulate wetness only a tiny portion of the rain.

• Medium and hard difficulties have been disabled in the main difficulty selection in the demo. Harder difficulties are still available via Custom Game, where you can select the difficulty manually and of course tweak other settings as well. This change is mainly for the first timers to rather choose the easiest difficulty and getting familiar with the game mechanics.
• The foliage removal key binding has been changed from G to F. This avoids a conflict with the default winter snow-removal key (G).
• Trees that fall on rocks will now immediately break down into logs
• Added a vSync option to the video settings.
• Various minor bug fixes and improvements.

• Food items can now cause food poisoning (if enabled) once their condition turns yellow, with the risk increasing gradually as they decay.
• The default key ‘G’ for foliage removal is now a one-time action instead of enabling the tool.
• Added a rotten wood item. Rotten wood is a low quality wood item aka. wood debris and provides only a low amount of fire fuel.
• Fallen dead trees can now be chopped down with an axe, yielding rotten wood.
• Ramson has been renamed to sorrel to avoid confusion with wild garlic.
• Fixed an issue where item drying did not work as intended.
• Item drying now continues during rain if there is a roof above.
• Fixed an issue where young birch and maple saplings reappeared after loading when previously chopped down.
• Bone pieces or fragments may be found in shallow caves.
• Storage structures can now be repaired.
• Various minor bug fixes and improvements.