Lost Rift news & patch notes

Rifters, this is the Second Update, the Gun Modding Update.

This one is a big update for Lost Rift. We are introducing full weapon modding, a major expansion to gunplay that lets you tailor weapons to your playstyle, whether you prefer precision sniping, stealth, or full-on combat.

We have also added a new building material - wood, so you can expand your island architecture and base-building.

Alongside this, we have reworked combat feel, loot distribution, progression systems, and added a wide range of improvements across AI, UI, world design, and more.

Patch Notes for update 2

Weapon Modding (Major Feature)

Weapon modifications have been added to the game and can be equipped at the Modding Table. Modding Table can be unlocked via a quest after you have opened the Communication Tower on Pioneer's Landing.

Modding tables are also available on both expedition islands, though some may be hidden or defended.

• Weapon mod types include: silencers, chokes and muzzles, magazines, laser sights, sights (including scopes), and grips.

• Mods impact weapon behavior by reducing recoil and sway, modifying magazine size, improving aiming control, and reducing weapon noise.

• Mods are divided into three tiers: DIY, Commercial, and Military.

• Basic mods can be found on Outcasts, while higher-tier mods are located in hidden rooms or dropped by bosses. Bosses have a high chance of dropping modded weapons.

• DIY mods can be crafted at the Weapon Bench after being unlocked.

• Weapons have been rebalanced, especially in terms of recoil and sway, to ensure mods create a noticeable difference.

Weapons and Combat

• Headshot detection has been improved to be more reliable.

• Healing has been rebalanced 

  • Fiber bandage heals 20 HP (5 seconds use time)

  • Treated bandage heals 30 HP (4 seconds use time)

  • Healing tonic heals 1 HP per second for 60 seconds (3 seconds use time)

  • Medkit heals 70 HP (4 seconds use time)

  • Survival kit heals 100 HP (3.5 seconds)

  • Revival kit heals 100 HP, removes heavy wounds, and allows reviving teammates (4 seconds)

• Epic weapons have been reworked and are no longer pre-equipped with mods. Players can now customize them freely.

• NEW Weapon! Hunter Rifle, a high damage bolt action rifle with a small magazine and strong recoil, available in Rusted, Stock, and Epic variants

• New weapons rarity added:

  • Liberator (Epic)

  • Frontier (Epic)

AI Changes

• Marksman fallback behavior has been improved to prevent them from getting stuck outside combat.

• Torches have been removed from most Outcasts.

• The sniper boss DeadEye Dom in the Weather Station and the Doctor Ali in the Quarantine Zone of Locker Island have been rebalanced.

• Rifle accuracy for Outcasts has been adjusted based on weapon type.

• Outcasts also have modded weapons

• Added names for specific AI based on Their Tier and specialization

Loot and Economy

• A large loot and economic rebalance has been implemented

• Each item now belong to loot category (eg. Mechanical resources like metal scrap, or Electronics resource like wire)

• Expedition maps now show loot categories on POI, no more guessing where to go to get that car battery.

• Loot chest and dead bodies are now dynamically redistributed each expedition. 

• Trophy drop chances have been adjusted:

  • Capybara, Goat, Tapir 25%

  • Bonkey, Bogzilla 40%

  • Hyena 5%

  • Alpha Hyena 40%

• Stack sizes for Medkits, Survival Kits, and Revival Kits have been increased to 10.

• Empty loot chests now remain open to indicate they have already been looted.

• Item rarity adjustments:

  • Treated Wood is now Uncommon

  • Goat Helmet is now Uncommon

  • Metal Axe and Metal Pickaxe are now Rare

Building and Progression

A new material, Wood, has been introduced with increased durability and cost. It unlocks after finding the Metal Axe.

• A new build piece, the Thatch Ramp, has been added. Thatch Roofs and ramps are now separate pieces, while previously built ramps retain their roof appearance.

• Furniture and crafting station costs have been rebalanced and are generally cheaper. Cozy values for some furniture have also been adjusted.

World Updates

• Difficulty indicators have been added in both Expedition maps using the following flags:

  • Green (1 eye) Easy

  • Yellow (2 eyes) Medium

  • Red (3 eyes) Hard

• New starting and extraction points have been added to both expedition islands, with some extraction points placed deeper inland.

Food and Consumables

• Some of the consumables' values were slightly adjusted.

UI

• Loot categories are now displayed in the inventory, helping players understand item usage and sourcing.

• Resource category icons have been added to the map.

• The ammo widget has been improved. Ammo counters now turn red when empty, and prompts have been added for switching ammo types.

• Item tooltips have been reworked to provide more detailed information, especially for weapons.

• Dynamic weapon icons now reflect equipped mods. Multiple item icons have been updated.

• Additional improvements and fixes include:

  • Building UI fixes

  • Improved bed ownership display

  • Improved splash screen behavior

  • Improved main menu loading

  • Better maintenance messaging

  • Fix for revive kit UI blocking issue

  • Improved quest and building requirement display

  • Clearer character name validation

  • HUD prompts for attachments and ammo type

  • Settings menu improvements

  • Proper messaging for banned players

• Building menu UX improvement: building pieces have been reorganized as such that switching size is now simpler when switching categories.

Quests and Notes

• A new side quest has been added to unlock the Modding Bench after completing the Com Tower.

• The Missing Miners quest has been improved with clearer objectives and structure.

• The Recruit Jo quest flow has been adjusted to improve clarity.

• The Outcast Outpost quest now unlocks after fixing the boat.

• Helper notes have been added to expedition islands, showing mine resource contents and explaining Outcast banner difficulty indicators.

Audio and Visuals

• Gun audio has been improved with different sounds for interior and exterior environments, along with overall sound quality improvements and more pronounced bullet impacts.

• Lighting has been optimized across points of interest.

• Visual improvements have been made across the game.

• Fixed issues with weather sounds cutting abruptly.

Text Updates

• Updated names and descriptions for items, weapons, and mods.

• Updated material requirements in the quest journal.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that would sometimes make it impossible to connect to camp, causing the client to timeout on join.

We cannot understate how pivotal player feedback has been in shaping our long-term plans, and it will continue to guide our work as we expand Lost Rift with our community’s support. Stay tuned for future information on our next patch, content update, and beyond. Be sure to join us on  Discord, TikTok, and X to connect with other players. And as always, if you are liking the content that was just delivered, then please consider dropping us a review (it helps us a lot)!

The Steam Spring Sale is live, and for the first time, Lost Rift is available at its biggest discount yet, 80% off. The sale runs from now until next Thursday.

This is about bringing more players into the game and growing the Rift. The more players jumping in, the better the experience becomes for everyone.

If you have been waiting for a good moment to start or want to bring friends along for their first expedition, this is a great time to jump in. We are planning to release our second major update at the end of this month, introducing gun modding and other new features and content into the game!

As always, your feedback and reviews are a huge part of shaping Lost Rift. During the sale, they matter even more, helping new players understand the game and helping us keep improving it.

If you are enjoying your time in the Lost Rift, consider leaving a review and sharing your experience.

See you on the islands.

Rifters, we have released a smaller patch with no downtime. This patch focuses on smoothing out the first hour of gameplay in preparation for the upcoming Spring Sale. A lot of these changes have come directly from monitoring your experience and feedback. We are committed to making Lost Rift the innovative new Extraction Survival game that our team envisioned when we started this project. 

Patch Notes

Gameplay

Complete rebalance of consumables:

• Changed the inventory size of all resources to 1x1 - weapons, backpacks, and armors still take multiple inventory spaces

• Made healing instant on everything except the healing tonic 

• Removed the regular chest from the building menu and replaced it with the shared chest, which allows players to auto-pull resources from nearby workstations:

  • The cost of a small shared chest is the same as the previous cost of a regular chest

  • The cost of medium and large shared chests was decreased

  • Existing regular chests persist in the world, but they are no longer buildable

  • Regular shared chests are unlocked from the start of the game 

• Streamlined the early game experience:

  • Increased stick drop rate from trees and on the beach near Wade

  • Placed a dead hyena next to Jess ' body

  • Added bow and arrow on the way to Jess’s cave

  • Added a torch and a backpack next to the cave entrance

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bugs that made it difficult to select a display/resolution.

• Fixed a common GPU crash

We cannot understate how pivotal player feedback has been in shaping our long-term plans, and it will continue to guide our work as we expand Lost Rift with our community’s support. Stay tuned for future information on our next patches and our new update coming at the end of the month - this will be a big one! Be sure to join us on  Discord, TikTok, and X to connect with other players. And as always, if you are liking the content that was just delivered, then please consider dropping us a review (it helps us a lot)! 

Rifters, we have the next patch for you. This update focuses on overhauling consumables to make rare items more valuable and refining AI behavior - especially addressing situations where enemies felt like they were laser-beaming you from impossible angles. Alongside these changes, we’ve continued improving technical stability and visibility into matchmaking performance.

We’ve also added ping and latency indicators for players. This will help you monitor the connection improvements introduced in the last patch and better understand region selection and overall network performance.

Patch Notes

Consumables Overhaul

Complete rebalance of consumables:

• Removed the damaging effect of consumables.

• Uncooked consumables no longer offer a max stamina boost, ex:

  • Raw Dodo meat:

    • Heals 5HP

    • Replenishes 5 satiety

    • Replenishes 25 stamina

  • Grilled Dodo:

    • Heals 5 HP

    • Replenishes 25 satiety

    • Replenishes 100 stamina

    • Increases max stamina by 25 for 900 seconds

• Most consumables only replenish partial Stamina

• Healing tonic now heals 2 HP/s over 60 seconds, allowing you to strategically “pre-med” if you know you are about to have a challenging encounter.

AI Changes

• Perception and sound rebalanced, making it easier to sneak up on Outcasts (beware their pet hyenas can still smell you). Use a crouch walk to sneak upon them.

• Outcasts now have a harder time detecting you through bushes and in low visibility conditions (including rain and fog).

• Outcast drops and gear rebalanced:

  • More varied gear equipped.

  • Predefined bullets so they don’t shred armor so easily anymore.

  • Increased healing items.

• Various small tweaks to make combat with Outcasts more dynamic and feel more dangerous in challenging areas.

  • Easy areas should be easier, beatable with basic gear

  • Medium areas should be relatively challenging - You need to approach carefully and need at least basic armor and gear

  • Hard areas should be challenging - Don’t approach unless you have good gear and good weapons

• Tree Bug’s armor is significantly weakened.

• Additional small Outcast patrols were added to expeditions.

• Outcast gear and difficulty adjusted for Pioneer’s Landing and PvE Expeditions.

• Adjusted AI accuracy.

Loot Changes

• Durability of rare and epic armor increased.

• Rebalanced damage reduction on various armors.

• Decreased durability of some helmets

• Added pickup spawns for some basic gear around starting locations on Pioneer’s Landing.

• The cost of shared chests decreased.

• Fireplace added to Prosperia and Everstead, allowing you to cook food on the spot faster if you are hungry.

• Increased amount of sticks picked up from beach sticks.

• Increased drop rates of coconuts from coconut palms.

• Increased drop rate of ape meat from Bonkey.

• Raiding enemies now have additional loot drops.

• Water filters have a new model and new recipes in the crafting station and medical station.

• Glass bottle replaced with a plastic bottle and now only requires a 1x1 inventory slot. 

• Shotgun ammo stack increased to 48.

• Added repair stations to both expeditions so you can fix your gear in Expedition when in a pinch.

• Added recipe for raw hide vest to workbench (more expensive than armor bench variant).

• Raw hide vest is now unlocked after finishing the Armor Up quest with Wade.

• Wood is now 1x1 instead of 2x1, helping alleviate limited inventory space concerns, especially for the beginning of the game.

• Added loot to locked rooms on Locker Island.

• New icons for some resources and keys.

• Making signs is now cheaper, so it is easier to organize chests.

UI

• Added a setting to show/hide the HUD.

• Locked chests and doors now require hold to unlock to prevent accidental key use.

• Additional tooltip descriptions for consumables to clearly show healing items' benefits, ex: Revival kit can remove Heavy Wound status effect.

• Interaction on the expedition ship should no longer disappear intermittently.

• New icons for some loot items to better match their 3D representation.d

• HUD Indicators when you are suffering poor network conditions.

VFX

• Particle-based creatures (bats, crabs, frogs, rats) are now fully interactive and can be shot and killed.

• More visual variety of Zip Lines.

• Added fishes into the expeditions.

Quests

• Transmitters now require different resources to be fixed.

• Transmitter reward quests now offer rewards more aligned with specific NPC characters.

• Removed glass bottles from Vlad quest.

Other Improvements

• Added support for frame generation for DLSS and FSR.

• Added support for nVidia Reflex.

• Added support for framerate limits and defaulting to Auto, which calculates the best limit from monitor refresh rates to provide good frame pacing and best use of variable refresh rate (Freesync/G-Sync/etc).

• Added ambient music triggering at times on Pioneer's Landing.

• Various VFX improvements

• Various crash and bug fixes.

We cannot understate how pivotal player feedback has been in shaping our long-term plans, and it will continue to guide our work as we expand Lost Rift with our community’s support. Stay tuned for future information on our next patch, content update, and beyond. Be sure to join us on  Discord, TikTok, and X to connect with other players. And as always, if you are liking the content that was just delivered, then please consider dropping us a review (it helps us a lot)!

Rifters, today is the first patch in 2026 for Lost Rift! This update focuses on polishing the experience for our players and balancing. A lot of these changes have come directly from monitoring your experience and feedback. We are committed to making Lost Rift the innovative new Extraction Survival game that our team envisioned when we started this project. We’re adding a new batch of side quests tied to the latest Expedition, giving players more reasons to return to Locker Island and uncover its dark past.

To reduce the frustration of failed runs, we’re introducing a Safe Pocket feature. Items stored in the Safe Pocket won’t be lost if an expedition fails. That means you can secure critical quest items or especially valuable loot before things go sideways - as long as they’re small enough to fit.

Patch Notes

Features

• Safe pockets. A small space to keep items safe from loss in an expedition.

Content Updates

• New side quests for Wade, Jo, Sophie, Dorothie, Vlad, and Fynn. Explore the dark past of Locker Island and the mysteries of Victoria.

• New notes reveal the troubling circumstances of an ill-fated expedition.

Balance Changes

• Increased health of bosses in Expeditions. 

• Changed the efficiency of fuel in the fire pit and furnace:

  • Coal now burns for 60 seconds in the furnace.

  • Coal now burns for 180 seconds in the fire pit.

  • Wood now burns for 60 seconds in the fire pit.

  • Sticks now burn for 30 seconds in the fire pit.

Matchmaking Updates

• Expedition matchmaking will more aggressively favour the lowest average latency when selecting a region for any player or team.

  • Note, though, if your teammates are located on different continents, ping rates are typically higher as the match will be placed in the best overall zone.

Systems Updates

• UI

  • Access to dismantle is now easier to access when holding the construction hammer.

• AI 

  • AI will be able to hear their target more easily when actively in combat with them.

  • Added engagement range to AI depending on their current weapon.

    • Berserkers will now engage the player more in melee.

    • Bruisers will now engage at close to medium range with their weapon.

    • Marksman will now highly prefer to stay at range. 

  • Made AI more responsive to the player's actions in general.

  • Improved existing vantage points so AI marksmen use them more effectively.

  • Improved hiding Behavior.

    • AI will now hide from the player when getting shot outside their effective combat range if they can’t reach the player.

  • Improved AI ability to move across multifloor terrain (IE: Galleon).

  • Improved AI Search behavior.

• Hydration increases stamina regeneration instead of increasing max stamina.

• Sleeping in a cozy bed heals the player.

• Loot balance updates (both PvE and PvP expeditions):

  • Increased loot on Locker Island.

  • Greatly increased yields from mining coal, lead, iron, and sulfur.

  • Decreased drops of mineable resources outside of mineable rocks.

  • Increased drops of spices, tea, coffee, brown sugar, and glass bottles on Locker Island.

  • Decreased drops of the screwdriver on Locker Island.

  • Increased drop chance for Captain's Hat.

  • Increased drop of rubber hoses on Western Island.

  • Increased drop chance of sterilization tablets and water filters on Locker Island.

  • Decreased drop for rifle ammo.

  • Increased drops of metal hooks on both islands.

• Added some crafting benches to both expeditions so you can quickly repair or craft on the spot. They do not contain all the recipes you have unlocked.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an exploit that could cause players to be assigned to the wrong team on expedition, enabling them to damage players in PvE and see players on the map in PvP.

• Fixes to quests to build crafting stations, such as Textiles for Life, that couldn’t be completed. Just head back to the quest giver to finish now.

• Fixes to spawns in PvE expedition - some spawns were spawning higher value items than they were supposed to.

• Fixed recipes in Jo and in the weapon crafting table.

• Fixed a crash when using FSR 4 common on GTX GPUs.

• Fixed crash in EOS SDK, where unreliable network conditions would trigger a reconnect to the game services, then an hour later, EOS SDK would likely crash (This one was really “fun” to track down).

• Fixed the issue where some players would disconnect while loading into their camps as players built their camps larger.

  • Making connections to the game services more resilient, they will now retry if interrupted in the background.

  • Networking changes to prevent packet loss during initial map load. This should make loading a bit faster for many players as well.

• Fixed ordering issues in the options menu.

• Various other bug and crash fixes.

• Fixed the issue where AI would spawn without ammo loaded in their gun. Making them reload their gun when starting combat.

Other Improvements

• DLSS updated to 4.5, OTA updates are now enabled.

• FSR 4 update to 4.0.3.

• Lighting updates:

  • New fixtures, improved materials, improved soft shadows.

  • Improved fire look.

  • Improved exposure behavior (faster response).

• Various other performance improvements:

  • Optimized light complexity and improved the positioning of several fixtures.

• Rework of the options menu for organization.

We cannot understate how pivotal player feedback has been in shaping our long-term plans, and it will continue to guide our work as we expand Lost Rift with our community’s support. Stay tuned for future information on our next patch, content update, and beyond. Be sure to join us on  Discord, TikTok, and X to connect with other players. And as always, if you are liking the content that was just delivered, then please consider dropping us a review (it helps us a lot)!

Hello Rifters, We’re taking part in Steam’s PVP Fest, and to celebrate it, we have a 30% discount, so if you were wondering about getting into the game, now is the time! But that’s not all - everyone who logs in during PVP Fest will get a special package to get you right into the heat of the action - go straight into an expedition with your shiny free loot. To get the package, you need to log in during PVP Fest: from Monday, February 9th, 2026 till Monday, February 16th, 2026. We have also updated our store page stream - there are a couple of new pretty faces and some teasers of things to come - make sure to check it out! As always, we encourage you to join our Discord - our Devs will be hosting chill play sessions where you can ask questions and/or try to hunt them down on expeditions. Details will be available on Discord. Be sure to join us on other platforms to connect with other players. And as always, if you are liking the content that was just delivered, then please consider dropping us a review (it helps us a lot)!

Happy Hunting! Lost Rift Team

Hello Rifters, As we prepare for the upcoming PVP Fest, we have fixed a couple of issues to make your experience smoother. This hotfix requires no downtime, so you can play right away. As always, we want to thank the members of our community for bringing our attention to it, and if you encounter any bugs in your playthrough, please reach out to us on Discord (link below). Patch notes

• Fixes GPU crash in FSR 4, usually on GTX GPUs hardware.

• Fixes a crash in EOS SDK that would happen an hour after recovering from a disconnect.

• Fixes high packet loss, causing slow loading and timeouts when joining some camps.

• Fixes a GPU crash when reconnecting to an expedition.

• Note: There are some other lower probability crashes that may still happen in this case. Keep retrying if this happens. We are working on more fixes for the upcoming patch.

• Expeditions will now continue to add players up to 10 minutes from starting.

Thanks for being with us! Lost Rift Development Team

Hello Rifters,

We’d like to share an updated look at what we’re currently working on for Lost Rift during Early Access. Since the last roadmap update, we’ve been gathering feedback, reviewing gameplay data, and adjusting priorities to better focus on core improvements and new features.

Below is an overview of what’s currently in development and what we’ll continue improving over time. As always, your reports through Discord and the Steam forums have already helped us identify and resolve several key issues. That process will continue until Lost Rift feels as stable and immersive as it was meant to be. 

Improved character visibility to make combat encounters clearer and fairer.

Safe pocket - for when you find that one thing you needed for your quest and need to extract with it, no matter what.

Storm on Western Island - after intense testing of the feature, we will be bringing it back - watch out for lightning!

Gun modding - A whole weapon customization system, letting you tailor attachments, mods, and tweaks to suit your loadout.

Locker Island Research Building - The barrier blocking this place won’t stay forever - you’ll be able to check out the new point of interest. 

New weapon - Hunter - a new bolt-action rifle to use in your adventures. 

Personal chests - for safe storage.

New NPC survivor - mysterious ally who can join your camp.

Fast travel in Pioneers’ Landing - safely get back to the comfort of your base with a fast travel system that shortens the walk back home.

Unloading ammo out of guns - precious ammo, won’t be wasted on guns you don’t take with you. 

Building menu UX improvements - so you can build your structures more easily. 

Ongoing Updates

The following systems will continue to be adjusted and improved throughout Early Access:

• Weapons and AI

• Crafting and economy

• AI behaviors

This roadmap reflects our current plans and priorities and may change as development continues. Your feedback plays an important role in shaping Lost Rift, and we’ll keep sharing updates as work progresses. We’re also planning a bigger roadmap update so that you can see what we have in store for 2026 - we will drop it sometime in the near future.

We cannot understate how pivotal player feedback has been in shaping our long-term plans, and it will continue to guide our work as we expand Lost Rift with our community’s support. Stay tuned for future information on our next patch, content update, and beyond.

And as always, if you are liking the content that was just delivered, then please consider dropping us a review (it helps us a lot)! 

Thank you for playing and supporting the game. 

The Lost Rift Team

Rifters, today is the first major Early Access Game Update for Lost Rift! This update takes on some of the greatest pain points our players have raised and focuses on making Lost Rift bigger, balanced, and more enjoyable. A lot of these changes have come directly from your feedback and we are committed to making Lost Rift the innovative new Extraction Survival game that our team envisioned when we started this project. 

Patch Notes

Extraction and Expedition Changes

• New Expedition Island, Locker Island, with unique bosses and points of interest. 

  • Swamp biome with new environmental hazards.

  • New POIs, buildings, large set pieces, secrets, and encounters.

• Added Experimental PvE Expeditions mode:

  • Allows exploration and progression without engaging in PvP fights.

  • Rarer loot will be more abundant in the current PvPvE (PvP-focused) mode.  

  • We are calling the new PvE mode an experimental feature for now because we will keep on refining it with our players. 

• Three extraction exits are now active simultaneously on each expedition island (up from two).

• Reduced expedition match length from 40 minutes to 30 minutes.

• Added Self Revive System:

  • Players can self-revive from DBNO.

  • 6-second interaction; interrupted by damage.

  • Still applies Heavy Wounds status when downed:

    • Prevents DBNO on next down.

    • Can be removed over time or with a Revival Kit.

    • Fully dead players can still be revived by teammates if they remain in match with revival kit.

Balance and Loot Changes

• Large loot and economy rebalances:

  • Increased stack sizes for many items (including screwdriver and pistol ammo).

  • Significantly rebalanced loot drop rates and loot distribution

  • Significantly rebalanced crafting costs and trading costs.

  • Ammo drop rates reduced.

  • Ammo crafting costs lowered.

  • String crafting now costs 3 fiber in textile bench

  • Bandage crafting now costs 3 fiber in medical bench

  • Basic arrows and bolts are now unlocked in the weapon station.

• Lootable dead bodies are now categorized by loot and properly clothed:

  • Civilian, Soldier, Doctor, Scientist, Outcast.

  • Each category now has its own loot table.

• Communication Tower repairs made easier:

  • Reduced resource requirements (iron bars removed).

  • Required resources added directly to tower storage.

• Mining rebalance:

  • Mining node health adjusted by resource type.

  • Metal pickaxe effectiveness significantly increased.

  • Resource distribution updated:

    • Locker Island: Lead, coal, volcanic rock, kennedite.

    • Western Island: Sulfuric salt, iron, lead, kennedite.

    • Camp Island: Sulfuric salt, iron ore, coal, volcanic rock.

• Food item stamina boosts now persist when traveling to and from expeditions.

• Added new keys, including Locker Island door keys, and Pioneer Landing keys.

  • All locked rooms were rebalanced to offer appropriate rewards. 

• Loot adjustments:

  • Research Annex loot on Camp Island significantly improved.

  • Com Tower storage room loot reduced.

• Locks and keys changes on western island

  • All locked rooms were rebalanced to offer appropriate reward. 

  • Lighthouse - Western Island Key

  • Everstead - Western Island Key

  • Weather station - Blue access card

  • Weather station bunker - Bunker key

  • North west bunker - Bunker key

  • Harmony watch - Western Island Key

  • Brightwater Station - Western Island Key

  • Harbor - Armory (room with red light) - Western Island Key

  • Harbor - record office (room on second flood) - Records office key

  • Harbor - Maintanace bunker - Western Island Key

  • Harbor - Storage room - Western Island Key

  • Reserach annex (new) - Reserach annex key

  • Locked Military crates and Locked Shipping crates - Pioneer Landing key

Quests and Narrative

• 8 new Side Quests to complete. 

• Approximately 80 new additional story notes with new lore across islands.

• Over 50 updated story notes with new characters and narratives to follow.

• Various fixes and QOL updates to existing quests.

AI

• Large AI difficulty and spawn rebalance on Western Island and Locker Island.

• New enemies and creatures added to Locker Island, including an Albino hyena (supports Outcasts), an Albino Dodo, a Capybara, Chickens, the Bogzilla and Bogzilla babies.

• Added 6 bosses:

  • Dr. Ali (Coroner) - Quarantine Zone basement.

  • Billy J (East Mine Foreman) - Harbor, Western Island.

  • Dr. Kumar and his pet Hyena - Galleon Relict, Locker Island.

  • Capra (Outcast Priest) - Lighthouse, Western Island.

  • Hector (Cartel Boss) - Utility Station, Locker Island.

  • Deadeye Dom (Outcast Sniper) - Weather Station, Western Island.

• Outcast raid camps now feature Outpost Leaders with stronger weapons and better loot.

• AI hearing occlusion added:

  • AI has reduced ability to detect sounds blocked by terrain or structures.

• AI spawn exclusion:

  • Hostile AI will no longer respawn near recruited survivors on Camp Island.

• High-grade AI now equipped with slightly better weapons.

• Reduced hostile fauna and Outcast density in Camp Island’s central jungle.

• Increased cooldown for Camp Island hyena, tree bug, and outcast spawners to 60 minutes.

• Added easy enemy spawns near extraction points.

• Added a second patrol wave spawning after 15 minutes in expeditions.

• Difficulty changes

• AI scaling changed in all POIs

  • Easy POI are now much easier 

  • Hard POI are now way harder

Building and Crafting

• Added Shared Chest system:

  • Crafting stations can now pull resources directly from shared chests.

  • Shared chest unlock tiers:

    • Small shared chest: 20 Wood / 5 Sailor Rope

    • Medium shared chest: 20 Treated Wood / 20 Metal Scraps / 2 Metal Hook

    • Large shared chest: 20 Iron Ingot / 5 Sailor Rope / 1 Control Relay

• Furnace updates:

  • Smelting time is reduced to 60 seconds.

  • Additional items can now be smelted.

• Salvage updates:

  • Rubber hoses can now be salvaged.

  • All clothing items can now be salvaged.

Art and Animation

• 2D Map now better shows medium and hard difficulty areas. 

• Jess’s body was repositioned for better lighting and visibility.

• Added visuals for new food items:

  • Boiled chicken egg, boiled Bogzilla egg.

  • Grilled chicken, grilled Bogzilla, grilled capybara.

  • Raw chicken, raw Bogzilla meat, raw capybara.

  • Chicken egg, Bogzilla egg.

• Reduced duration of the Heavy Wounds visual effect.

• Improved interaction prompts on corpses.

Environment

• Locker Island Expedition environment with new and different biomes.

• Western Island updates:

  • Research Annex added (locked with Research Annex key).

  • New locked chests added.

  • Locked rooms rebalanced for appropriate rewards.

• POI reworks including:

  • Added jumping puzzles and hidden loot.

  • Com Tower adjusted and zipline added.

  • Weather Station and Lighthouse rework.

  • Zipline network adjusted.

• Western Island POI renames:

  • East Outcast Village → Everstead

  • West Outcast Village → Prosperia

  • North Outpost → Harmony Watch

  • South Outpost → Brightwater Station

UI

• Added information on who or what killed the player in the Expedition summary.

• Containers now display proper container-type names.

• Player names now appear on dead bodies.

• Item trade and recipe unlock rewards now appear in:

  • Journal menu.

  • NPC Survivor dialogue menus.

• Added confirmation prompt when quitting to desktop.

• Updated error message when inventory blocks quest items:

  • “Requirements Not Met” → “Inventory Full”.

• Fixed durability bar not turning red at low durability.

• Added stamina regeneration effect to item tooltips.

• Fixed missing North-East extraction point on Western Island map.

• Improved expedition map difficulty indicators.

• Matchmaking settings now replicate to party members.

• Improved expedition menu visuals.

• Added ability to display maintenance messages before login.

• Optimized Map menu loading to only load the currently relevant map.

• In-game mailbox system implementation: 

  • Players can now receive mail directly from the team.

  • In-game mail can contain items attached to the message, allowing us to compensate players for server issues and provide gifts.

Other Fixes

• Quest fixes and improvements:

  • “Locating Anomaly” now specifies the required amount of brown sugar.

  • “Give Up” option can now be triggered with a key/button (G).

  • Various quest quality-of-life fixes.

• General issue fixes:

  • Firepit disabling recipes after adding fuel.

  • Ready-up issues after dying in expedition parties.

  • Localization updates are not refreshing in the building menu.

We cannot understate how pivotal player feedback has been in shaping our long-term plans, and it will continue to guide our work as we expand Lost Rift with our community’s support. Stay tuned for future information on our next patch, content update, and beyond. Be sure to join us on  Discord, TikTok, and X to connect with other players.

And as always, if you are liking the content that was just delivered, then please consider dropping us a review (it helps us a lot)! 

Hello Rifters - We have estimated over two hours of downtime occurring to release the game update.  

Game Update #1, Welcome to Locker Island

Thank you for your patience as we release our first major update to the game today!

Hello Rifters! We’re so excited to bring you our first major update, Welcome to Locker Island, on December 17, 2025. This update marks the biggest step forward for Lost Rift since Early Access launched, and is coming with a ton of new features the community has been requesting since players first stepped ashore on our mysterious archipelago. 

This release introduces an entirely new expedition island, an experimental PvE-only mode for expeditions, downed personal self-revives, an inbox rewards system, new weapons, new bosses, and much needed quality of life improvements. Below you’ll find some of the biggest changes coming to the game next week. 

KEY FEATURES COMING IN THIS GAME UPDATE

Experimental PvE Expedition Mode: 

PvE Cooperative Expeditions will allow players to focus on survival, exploration, resource mastery, and story progression without the pressure of unpredictable PvP encounters. Don’t worry, players will still compete against each other for loot in this mode, but in a more cooperative way without the ability to shoot each other. It’s also important to keep in mind that rarer loot will be easier to find in the more competitive PvP-focused mode. 

We understand some of our players really enjoy only the survival PvE aspect of the game, so the new mode is an option to make expeditions feel less like a winner-takes-all showdown. This feature is all about giving players the choice, whether to fight others or to just take-on Outcasts and explore the island for loot. As the title says, the cooperative PvE Expedition mode is still Experimental, so please bear with us as we continue to refine how this mode functions.

Expedition Island #2 - Locker Island: 

A second island has unveiled itself in the archipelago. This swamp-ridden, eerie expanse is filled with abandoned structures and secrets lost in the mud and mist. Locker Island has nine points of interest, with one yet to be revealed, across a landscape where you’ll find shipwrecks, plane wrecks, and fresh dangers. 

New Bogzilla Monster and Boss Fights: 

Take on six new boss enemies, 3 on Locker Island and 3 on Western Island. Plus, watch out for a new deadly species of creature lurking in the shadows of Locker Island. 

Downed Self-Revive: 

Self-revive gives solo explorers and unlucky squads a fighting chance at a comeback. Time it right, and keep fighting your way out alive. Time it wrong, and lose it all.

80+ Lore Notes & Side Quests: 

This is the largest narrative expansion the game has received post-early access release. With over 50 updated story notes, 80 brand-new notes, and new side quests, the world of Lost Rift is now richer, darker, and more connected to the dangers surrounding it. 

Two New Weapons, the Liberator & Frontier: 

Expand your arsenal with the new fully automatic Liberator and the Frontier precision rifle.   

Shared Chest Crafting Integration: 

Shared chests are a new chest type that can be built to make it easier to craft. That means less shuffling items around and more time creating the things you’ll need to succeed.

• T1 Chest Recipe: 20 Wood / 5 Sailor Rope

• T2 Chest Recipe: 20 Treated Wood / 20 Metal Scraps / 2 Metal Hook

• T3 Chest Recipe: 20 Iron Ingot / 5 Sailor Rope / 1 Control Relay

In-Game Mailbox Rewards System: 

Players will now be able to receive items and messages directly from the Lost Rift team. Things like holiday gift items, player rewards, and other communications will get delivered with a new UI button and notification through this new system. 

And There’s So Much More:

• Quality of Life Improvements across the entire game

• AI reaction and spawning cool down updates 

• A huge set of loot and economy rebalancing 

• New food types and new fauna to hunt for a meal 

• Difficulty scaling changes, mining rebalance, trade changes, and the list keeps going

Be sure to check out some screenshots below to get more of a sneak peak on the update!

We have said this time and time again, but your feedback has been key in shaping our long-term plans, and it will continue to guide our work as we refine and expand Lost Rift together. Stay tuned for future information on our first patch, first content update, and beyond. Be sure to join us on  Discord, TikTok, and X to connect with other players.

And as always, please consider dropping us a review (it helps us a lot)! 

Hello Rifters! It’s wild to think that it’s already been a few months since Lost Rift started our journey into Early Access. While we’ve put out an initial look at our plans through the Early Access period, the team has continued to actively listen to player feedback and is focusing on delivering different features accordingly. This new Early Access roadmap reflects our latest priorities, refined plans, and exciting additions to the game currently in development. 

We know there have been some issues, bugs, or strange anomalies that even our best devs couldn’t have predicted. Just know, our team is hard at work tackling all the issues raised. In case we haven’t said it enough, your reports through Discord and the Steam forums have already helped us identify and resolve several key issues. That process will continue until Lost Rift feels as stable and immersive as it was meant to be.

Confirmed in Development

Since launch, we’ve already shipped our first major patch along with several hotfixes that delivered against some of the previous planned roadmap points, but there is so much more to come. We’re thrilled to share the latest on what’s coming to Lost Rift thanks to your feedback and the team’s continued hard work. 

Please note that some features listed will be implemented into the game after our first Game Update this month. This is not the full, exhaustive list of our Early Access plans through 2026 and it continues to only include things we’re ready to share with the community. 

• Experimental PvE Mode: A new mode focusing purely on PvE survival and exploration, giving players an alternative to the more PvP-focused extraction expeditions.

• Second Expedition Map: A brand new island to explore: more loot, more danger, and more mystery.

• Downed Self-Revive: Allowing players to revive one-time after being downed to continue to make everyone’s expedition experience better. 

• New Bosses: Expect challenging new boss encounters that add depth and variety.

• New Firearms: Expanding our arsenal with fresh firearms to fit different combat styles.

• New Alpha Predator Fauna: A wild, dangerous apex predator will challenge even the most seasoned Rifters on an expedition.

• Mailbox for Rewards: Providing players with an in-game mail system to deliver rewards for sticking with us through this Early Access timeframe. 

• Gun Modding: A whole weapon customization system, letting you tailor attachments, mods, and tweaks to suit your load-out. 

• Fast Travel System: Safely get back to the comfort of your PvE base with a fast travel system that shortens the trek back home. 

• New Building Material: Build stronger bases and new structures to withstand the islands’ threats. 

• Better Expedition Onboarding: To help new players hit the ground running without feeling overwhelmed, we'll be upgrading the matchmaking system to match players together based on their game progress.

• Quality of Life Improvements: 

  • Craft at your workbench from your storage with a new chest type

  • Remove ammo directly from guns, allowing ammo swapping

  • HUD indication of armor durability, so you know when your armor breaks

Continuous Updates Based on Player Feedback

As with the previous roadmap we delivered, expect continuous updates from us focused on:

• Weapon, AI, and economy balancing

• Smarter and more responsive AI behaviors

• Refinements to the revive and heavy wound systems

Your feedback has been pivotal in shaping our long-term plans, and it will continue to guide our work as we refine and expand Lost Rift together. Stay tuned for future information on our first patch, first content update, and beyond. And as always, be sure to join us on  Discord, TikTok, and X to connect with other players. Finally, please consider dropping us a review (it helps us a lot)! 

Hello Rifters! The next update for Lost Rift is officially coming this month! We’re excited to introduce, Welcome to Locker Island. Our first big update is loaded with huge changes, including self-revive for downed solo players, powerful new chests that let you craft at nearby workbenches without transferring resources, a new HUD armor gauge, fierce new enemies, and a brand new Expedition to fight across: Locker Island. 

Locker Island is a massive new area to explore and will be accessible by going on an Expedition to extract resources. Here’s a sneak peak at the map and some screenshots to shed more light on this mysterious new land coming to Lost Rift.

The island provides players a dangerous new land to explore with seven key areas of interest and three rotating extraction points once you’ve got all your loot.

Reveal the dark history of Locker Island, where Operation Victoria quarantined the sick and performed questionable experiments on dangerous species. Witness the consequences of one fateful day that changed the trajectory of the settlement forever. 

Those who were left behind from a quarantine have armed themselves and succumbed to madness. Unravel the mystery of Project Victoria and take on new enemies in your search for treasures to extract.  

You’ll find hidden wonders everywhere; from a shipwreaked galleon seemingly lost in time to a dilapidated welcome center. With Outcasts running loose and unspeakable new beasts stalking the swamps, you will need your wits about you as you venture into a bizarre land of twisted events that were never meant to be.

Our first Game Update, Welcome to Locker Island, is coming this month in late-December. Stay tuned over the next few weeks for more information. As always, be sure to join us on  Discord, TikTok, and X to connect with other players. Finally, please consider dropping us a review (it helps us a lot)!

Hello Rifters - We have two to three hours of downtime occurring to fix the following crashing issues: 

Stability

• Fix for authentication that would fail when Windows root certificates were out of date.

• Fixes for GPU crashes and various other rare crashes

• Unhandled Exceptions causing crashing issues connecting to Expeditions.

Thank you for your patience as we update the game today!

We would like to thank community members Heso, Kopp, and WABI in our Discord for providing information and their save files for us to resolve critical issues for this hotfix.

• Resolved an issue where items inside of chests would appear to disappear, especially when traveling to and from expeditions. This was a result of the server not uploading save file data properly due to large save files

• Fixed an issue where foliage regrowth data could massively duplicate within save files, causing performance issues over time

• Fixed an issue where players would sometimes spawn at the dock even after claiming a bed as their respawn point. This may not resolve every case, we are looking for further player reports

• Fixed an issue where the Walkie Talkie recipe did not properly consume the Walkie Talkies in the Salvage Station

• Increased the drop rate of the Large Battery to make it easier to find

• Fixed an exploit

Update 3: All server issues should now be resolved and all players should have access to their islands again.

Update 2: Unfortunately, we've identified a remaining server crash that is preventing some players from loading their island saves. We are diagnosing the crash right now. 🙏 Update: The hotfix to fix ongoing server issues is now live. All players are advised to exit their islands and restart their game to download the update as soon as possible. You should no longer experience connectivity issues, islands not appearing on your world lists, or item rollbacks.

We are currently working on a hotfix to address a handful of critical issues that have arisen post-Patch 1.

We are aware of increased server crashes, which may be causing islands not to save properly. This can result in loss of items (inventories not saving).

We are also aware of server connectivity issues. You may have problems joining your island or seeing your island on the World list until this is resolved. We are working diligently to identify these issues.

We know this is not an ideal situation, and we appreciate your patience with us as we work to resolve these issues as quickly as we can.

Rifters, today is the first Early Access Patch for Lost Rift! Patch 1 addresses the most common pain points our community has raised and focuses on making Lost Rift more rewarding, consistent, and enjoyable. Many of these changes come directly from your feedback, and our goal is simple: to make every expedition, survival encounter, and crafting session feel smoother, fairer, and more fun.

This patch delivers a balance overhaul to nearly every aspect of survival gameplay. Core systems like stamina, hydration, and crafting have been rebalanced, making food and resource management more meaningful. Salvaging and the furnace now yield more rewarding and logical outputs. Combat pacing has been tuned, with axes hitting harder, universally improved armor (damage reduction, durability, and cost), and healing kits applying faster for more intense combat encounters. Weapons have also had their durability rebalanced. Extraction gameplay has been made more dynamic and fair, with larger extraction zones, faster evacuation timers, focused loot themes, and improved extraction zone cover. 

Patch Notes

Balance Changes

• Full rebalance of consumables' effect on stamina and hydration. In most cases, it has increased, and the role of food should be more apparent

• Furnace and Salvage Station yield rebalanced

  • Higher rarity weapons and armor now yield more iron bars from the furnace

  • More bolts, nuts, and scraps are now required for a single ingot from the furnace

  • Increased yield of gun parts from higher-tier weapons in Salvage Station

  • Increased yield of various resources from the Salvage Station

• Axe damage rebalance - axes and metal axes are now much more dangerous in melee combat:

  • Tree health has been updated as well to match axes' increased damage

• Armor damage reduction, durability, and cost rebalanced:

  • Durability of crafted and looted armor increased significantly

  • Durability of AI enemies' armor lowered considerably 

  • Damage reduction of basic hats increased

  • Damage reduction of Goat Helmet increased

• Weapon durability rebalanced and standardized:

  • In most cases, durability was increased. However, in a few instances, durability was decreased, most notably with assault rifles

• Durability bars may be misleading for armor and weapons, make it seem like durability has decreased. However, it has been updated to accommodate the new, increased max values. Your item's durability before the update is the same durability post-update

• Repair costs have been rebalanced

• First Aid Kit, Survival Kit, and Revival Kit healing time has been reduced to 2 seconds after application, to make them more useful

• Revival Kit rarity changed from 5 (legendary) to 3 (rare)

• Scientific Report 34 rarity changed from 4 (epic) to 3 (rare)

• Wade's trades have been fully rebalanced

  • Combat Crossbow and Metal Axe have been removed from her trades

• Updated Sophie’s trades to accommodate the Revival Kit

• Updated the Medical Station crafting recipe cost

• Added new Salvage Station recipes:

  • Electronic Components → Wires

  • RFID → Electronic Components

  • Walkie-talkie → Electronic Components

  • CO Detector → Metal Scrap

  • Power Brick → Electrical Wires

  • Large Battery → Sulfuric Salt

  • Screwdriver → Metal Scrap

  • Water Filter → Mason Jar

  • Control Relay → Wires

  • Antique Globe → Metal Scrap

  • Antique Clock → Metal Scrap

• Added new Furnace recipe:

  • Large battery → Lead Ingot

• New Weapon Bench recipe:

  • Rust Remover

• Tree Sap is now more useful and part of more crafting recipes

• Reduced the size of some healing items in the inventory

• Metal Chests now unlock when obtaining iron ingots, instead of building the textile bench

• Increased inventory size of Scrap Metal Chest and Sturdy Metal Chest 

• Increased inventory size of some Backpacks

• Increased drop chance of decor items

• Increased the drop chance of RFID from looting

• Electrical Wires now drop in higher numbers when looting

• Decreased the amount of bullets that can be found on killed Outcasts and in containers

• Increased furnace melting time to 90 seconds

• Lowered the iron ore to iron ingot ratio to 1:1

Extraction/PVP Changes

• Extraction zone areas on Western Island have been increased to allow more opportunity for extracting players to extract successfully

• Added additional cover around the Extraction zones

• Decreased the extraction countdown to 7 seconds, allowing players to extract more quickly

• Western Island will no longer have locked safes behind locked doors

• Increased loot within locked rooms on Western Island

• Loot on Western Island has been significantly rebalanced and more focused

  • Locked rooms will now focus on specific item types (example: a room may be entirely weapons and ammo chests in the room, or healing items, or general resources, but not a combination of all)

  • POIs are more focused on having natural or technological resources, based on the theme of the location

    • Removed utility boxes from Outcast camps

    • Removed Outcast chests in OpVic stations

• Loot chests are now named to be distinguishable by what they contain

• Fixed players being unable to spectate enemy players on Western Island when all teammates died. The player will now only be returned to the summary screen from the spectate screen if all players in the current expedition have extracted

AI

• Outcasts are now less likely to shoot at downed players

• Reduced the range in which Outcasts can hear footsteps and foliage rustling caused by the player

• Reduced Hyena's smell range from 50m to 10m

• Outcast Marksman Boss’s rifles will now drop with randomized durability

Building

• Fixed a structure support issue that caused wooden Storage Chests to be deleted on server load

• Storage chests can now be placed directly on walls

• Camp Comfort values for decor have been adjusted for multiple items, allowing more of them to be placed, but with reduced individual bonuses 

• Fixed an issue with building that stopped wall pieces from being rotated

• Fixed a support structure issue where player-built structures were not appropriately destroyed after all support had been destroyed

• Added two new decor items: Baseball Trophy and Antique Globe

• Updated the Framed Picture to be the same image in the inventory as it is when placed

• Changed the crafting cost of the Rug to no longer require Treated Wood

Art

• Updated firearm textures for pistols, rifles, and shotguns

• Added new visuals for ammo boxes

• Fixed the visual effects for Contaminated Outcasts

• Fixed the hair shader for dead bodies and Outcasts

• Visual polish to multiple clothing and armor items: Soldiers Helmet, Military Hat, Flat Brim Hat, Straw Hat, Plague Doctor Mask, Hunter's Hat, Hipster Glasses, Rounded Glasses, Incognito Glasses, Star Glasses, Eyepatch

• Added different types of Kebab meat (raw, cooked)

• Updated the Revival Kit to a yellow to match UI icons

• Made improvements to the character pose on the main menu

• Corrected the Hunter's Rags and Bruiser's Shirt from having the wrong models

• Corrected pants materials being incorrect for almost all pants in the game

• Fixed Surinam Cherries from appearing wonky when on the ground

• Removed a placeholder asset from Vlad's trading options

Environment

• Changed certain trees and the general environment to have improved hitboxes, particularly the large trees, which had hitboxes that were not accurate to their shape

• Move the player spawn location to be on land by the dock, to prevent players from becoming stuck inside the dock

• Added hidden keys around the Pioneers’ Landing (can you find them?) - look high and low!

• Fixed a hole in the ground terrain in F4 near the cave on Pioneers’ Landing

• Updated mines visuals

• Fixed an issue where the player could see under the map while swimming

• Fixed an area where the player was able to walk through rocks

• Fixed multiple issues with Outcasts' buildings placed on Western Island

• Fixed an issue where loot drops could fall through the floor when harvesting hyenas at the entrance to the Hyena cave

• Updated visibility in Fynn's hideout so loot is more apparent

• Removed non-interactable sticks from Pioneers’ Landing starting area

• Fixed collision on some rocks on Pioneers’ Landing

• Added proper collision to the green beam in the bunker

• Fixed an issue where players could not vault over horizontal pillars

• Fixed misplaced assets in the bunker near the Comms arena on Western Island

• Fixed an invisible collision blocking the entrance of the cave near the plane crash on Pioneers’ Landing

• Fixed a visual issue where a black rectangle was present on the tents on Western Island

• Added a missing chopped asset to the leafy tree trunk

• Improved the collision on the rock bridge leading to Port from Western Island C8

• Fixed an issue where AI buildings would set themselves on fire, such as Western Village

• Fixed an issue with waves appearing stretched near waterfalls

• Fixed a floating tree stump on Western Island H5

• Medical Chest in Harbor can no longer be reached without unlocking the door

• Rocks on the beach now drop 1-3 stones instead of just one

Animation

• Updated the medkit animation to include the first-person player reviving their teammate using a syringe

• Fixed the revolver animation, which caused the player's wrist to snap unnaturally during recoil

• Updated Hyena movement animations

• Fixed the Outcast Berserker running animation

• Improved animation when eating food and then transitioning to idle 

• Fixed an issue where the shotgun animation was inaccurate, and loading additional ammo that was not counted by the game

Performance

• Fixed a performance issue that occurred when building for an extended period of time

• Fixed an issue where the torch effects would play in the world even when the torch was not equipped

• Prevented some raid nests from activating when Survivors are not recruited

• Fixed an issue where inactive raiders were not despawning as intended

Audio

• Fixed an audio clipping issue that occurs when being shot in the helmet while in inventory

• Improved audio performance on Pioneers’ Landing

• Fixed an issue with crackling audio at the West Village Outpost on Western Island

• Added and/or fixed aiming down sights sound effects for multiple weapons

• Fixed footsteps sound effects failing to play after dying

• Fixed outdoor ambient audio from being heard in the bunker

• Removed some voice lines from Wade during active combat

• Fixed the jumping sound effect not playing properly when heard from a teammate's perspective

UI

• Added a temporary fix to limit how many quest notifications can queue for a player (4 main and 4 side quests). This is to address players who are experiencing multiple quest completion messages while playing

• Fixed an issue where the scrollbar failed to scroll when cycling while in Build Mode

• Fixed the Hyena Hijinks quest from completing at the wrong location

• Fixed an issue where side quests after Outcast Outpost stopped giving quest completed notifications

• Fixed an issue with the "A Strange Place" quest not updating after interacting with the Communication tower

• Fixed the outline remaining around an item when browsing through the inventory using a gamepad

• Changed the “A New Threat” side quest to mention Gun Parts instead of Weapon Parts

• Multiple translation fixes

Other Fixes

• Fixed an issue where fall damage was ignored if the player jumped from an extremely tall height

• Fixed an issue where some backpacks would get bigger when jumping.

• Fixed an issue that caused the player to fly off ziplines and unintentionally kill themselves

• Alpha Treebugs will now drop Treebug trophies as intended

• Mango Jam now costs mango instead of mango jam

• Alpha hyenas will now drop hyena trophies as intended

• Increased the drop chance of the Ape trophy significantly

Misc

• Added detection for falling through the ground. The game will now move the player to the nearest valid landscape location automatically

• Addressed some cases of inventory loss when Expeditions are requested to shut down, such as during maintenance or some service interruptions

• Addressed a disconnection on server load when camps contained a large number of chests/inventory items

• Added alerts to the game to notify players of incoming maintenance events

• Improved messaging when trying to join camps with players running a different version of the client

SteamDeck

• Improve rendering performance for the SteamDeck

• Fixed display issues while in Build mode on SteamDeck

• Fixed multiple text display issues for the SteamDeck

• Fixed the Journal flickering and resizing on SteamDeck

• Fixed the backpack slot icons overflowing off the screen when using a SteamDeck

Combat

• Adjusted AI unfairly headshotting the player. This should lead to more consistent damage from Outcasts, and less "one-shot kills" effect

UI

• Added the option for solo players to opt out of solo-only matchmaking, for brave solo players who want to play against any team size

• Added messaging when the game and the server are not on the same version, so players understand why they can't connect and need to update

Other

• Fix to prevent servers from uploading old save data. This resolves an issue we had last week, where we had to change some save data for some players manually

• Extended the timeout period when launching a server to reduce connection issues

Hello, Rifters! It’s hard to believe it’s already been two weeks since Lost Rift opened its doors to the world. From the first steps onto Pioneers' Landing to the countless expeditions and close calls since, watching our entire community explore, survive, and share your stories with us has been incredible. We want to take a moment to thank every single one of you who joined us for the Early Access launch. Your enthusiasm and feedback have meant the world to our team.

We know the journey hasn’t been without its bumps. Some of you have faced bugs or strange anomalies that even our best techs couldn’t have predicted. We hear you, and our team is hard at work tackling these issues that you've raised. Your reports through Discord and the Steam forums have already helped us identify and resolve several key issues. That process will continue until Lost Rift feels as stable and immersive as it was meant to be.

Confirmed in Development

We have had many requests from excited players since our EA launch, asking us what's being added to the game. Today, we’re excited to share a glimpse of what’s next with our initial Early Access Roadmap.

Please note that this is just a first look and not the full, exhaustive list of all our Early Access plans. It only includes things we're ready to share with the community, and there's more to come.

• New Expedition Map: A fresh PVPVE island to explore, filled with new dangers and new secrets.

• New Alpha Predator Fauna: A terrifying new apex creature to rival Bonkey will be stalking the new Expedition map.

• New Prey Fauna: Our cutest addition yet, the capybara, will be found on the new Expedition map.

• Gun Modding: Customize your loadout and experiment with attachments to fit your playstyle.

• New Firearms: Multiple new tools of survival and destruction are on the way.

• Wood Building Material: Build stronger bases and new structures to withstand the islands' threats.

• Pioneers' Landing Fast Travel System: Expedite your journeys across the island.

• Better Expedition Onboarding: To help new players hit the ground running without feeling overwhelmed, we'll be upgrading the matchmaking system to match players together based on their game progress.

• Solo Revives and Opt-in Solo Expedition Queues: Our goal is to make solo play more accessible and just as fun as squads.

• Quality of Life Improvements:

  • Craft at your workbench from your storage with a new chest type

  • Remove ammo directly from guns, allowing ammo swapping

  • HUD indication of armor durability, so you know when your armor breaks

Continuous Updates Based on Player Feedback

Expect continuous updates from us focused on:

• Weapon, AI, and economy balancing

• Smarter and more responsive AI behaviors

• Refinements to the revive and heavy wound systems

Your feedback has been instrumental in shaping our priorities, and it will continue to guide our work as we refine and expand Lost Rift together. Stay tuned for future information on our first patch, first content update, and beyond.

PS: If you are enjoying the game, please consider dropping us a review. It helps us a lot!

Matchmaking

• Restricted solo player matchmaking to only ever match solo players together, instead of allowing solos to sometimes end up with duos, etc. We will be making this optional in the future, but this option is forced on for all solo players currently, as of this update

Crossbow Balance

• Reduce Crossbow damage to 55

• Reduce Combat Crossbow damage (120 > 60)

We have received a large number of players due to the strength of crossbows. The Combat Crossbow and Crude Crossbow can no longer one-shot enemy players.

Environment Fixes

• Fixed multiple locations on Pioneers’ Landing and Western Island where players could fall into rocks and become stuck. Please continue to report any instances you may find.

• Fixed some rock collision issues where players could walk inside rocks (more of these cases still need to be addressed)

• Fixed some collision issues with rocks on Pioneers’ Landing where the player appeared to be hovering on top of the rock instead of standing on it

• Replaced mining nodes from the walls to the ground to prevent issues with loot falling in unintended ways

Hyena Balance Changes

• Lowered hyena health (120 > 70)

• Lowered alpha hyena health (240 > 140)

• Fixed an issue where hyenas were not receiving bonus damage for headshots. Normal hyenas will now die to one headshot (by basic bow and axe throw, does not include all guns due to rate of fire)

• Reduced the hyena population on Western Island by 40%

• Hyenas will now chase the player for a shorter distance

Hyenas are too strong, we’ve heard your feedback! Please let us know how they feel after the update.

Raid Changes

• Reduced the number of raid nests that can be active. *Please note this will not reduce the number of active nests on pre-existing worlds, but will prevent more from activating*

• Reduced the number of raiders sent to attack the player

• Decreased the frequency of raids

• Fixed issues causing Outcast and hyena raids not to be defeated (not definitive, and there may be additional cases for us to resolve)

Raids have been a pain point for early-game play, and we have addressed these concerns with the listed alterations. We will be monitoring your feedback to see if these changes are enough to make the raids feel less one-sided.

Combat

• Fixed an issue where shots that hit the player's neck were able to bypass armor

Audio

• Resolved an audio issue where the lockdown siren would continuously play throughout Pioneers’ Landing without attenuation

Welcome to the Early Access launch of Lost Rift!

We are thrilled to have you all here with us. Are you curious about what Lost Rift has to offer? Read on to get an overview of our features and what you can expect when you dive into the Rift.

Pioneers’ Landing (PVE Island)

Pioneers’ Landing is your home base and is roughly one square kilometer of playing area. It's entirely private for you and up to 4 friends; you’ll never be raided by other players here. However, this beautiful place is not always safe. Some creatures and mysterious survivalists living in the jungle might attack your home. It's not all hostile, though, as you’ll also find all of the NPCs on this island, and complete many of your story quests here.

Western Island (PVPVE Island)

Western Island is an extraction shooter zone called Expedition that supports up to 15 players. You will sail to Expedition on a boat as part of your quests. Upon arrival, you’ll have 40 minutes to loot what you can and get to the exit before you die or before the timer runs out. There are 18 points of interest to explore, with more planned for Early Access, offering a variety of different fighting areas. If you die while on an expedition, you’ll lose everything in your inventory.

No Host Needed: Shared Islands

You and your squadmates can access any Shared Island at any time, without needing the “host” player who created the island to be online. Any player with access can launch the island whenever they want. When playing together, one person makes an Island and then sends a secure one-time invite code to each friend, which provides access to the island. 

Survivor Notes

Explore the mysterious lore of Lost Rift through Notes that can be found scattered across the islands. These notes are written by other survivors, and will give you backstory of the world as well as gameplay tips.

Quests

There are nearly 100 quests for you to complete, which is approximately 20-30 hours of play time from story quests exclusively. You can access your quests at any time by opening your Journal (J).

Keys

Keys can be found by looting enemies and locations on Pioneers’ Landing and Western Island. Some of the NPCs will also trade keys. Here is how keys can be used:

• Safe Key: opens chests on Pioneers’ Landing and Western Island

• Pioneers’ Landing Key: opens doors and chests on Pioneers’ Landing

• Western Outpost Key: opens doors and chests on Western Island

• Bunker Key: opens bunkers on both Pioneers’ Landing and Western Island

• Any additional keys not listed here are used as part of your quests, and won’t be named here to avoid spoilers

• There are also three hidden keys around Pioneers’ Landing for you to find!

How to go on an Expedition

Wade will guide you through some beginner quests to get you settled. Once you progress through her quests, she will ask you to locate her friend Jess, and to repair a boat. After both of these are completed, you’ll be able to use the boat to go on Expeditions.

Matchmaking

Lost Rift is designed with a dedicated geo-located server approach to keep PvE/PvPvE consistent. Our Expedition matchmaking will match players based on their squad size, matching solo players together as much as possible within their geographical area. It will then scale up, matching them with duos as much as possible, and so on, until an ideal match is found.

No Infinite Revives: Heavy Wound System

When downed, you’ll receive a debuff called Heavy Wound. This debuff will start a timer during which you can’t be revived again. This prevents squads from repeatedly reviving each other during active PVP altercations. 

Expedition Rejoin

If you get disconnected from an Expedition, you can rejoin it right away from the main menu. Your progress and inventory will be safe during a disconnect (as long as your enemies don't get to you first) so that you can jump right back into the action.

Player Spectating

If you die on Expedition, you can also spectate your surviving teammates while you wait and hope one of them can revive you with a revival kit. 

Our character creation allows you to choose a body type and head preset, and clothing options such as glasses, a shirt, a watch or bracelet, pants, and shoes. Additional clothing can be crafted, looted, or found in the world, so keep an eye out for that elusive diving helmet!

When you first start your journey on Pioneers’ Landing, you’ll learn the crafting recipes for a basic set of tools: Building Hammer (to build everything), Torch, Stone Axe, and Stone Pickaxe. To carry more loot, you’ll want to find or invest in a backpack (available in Small, Medium, and Heavy sizes). To defend yourself, you’ll have a few different options in weaponry: Bow, Crossbow, Pistol, Rifle, and Shotgun. Throwing an axe or torch can also be very effective!

To protect yourself, you’ll need a helmet and chest armor. Different types and tiers of armor can be crafted, looted, or found in the world. Start by crafting a wooden chestplate, and Wade will help guide you through the progression of getting better-tier armor.

Building System

Lost Rift offers a unique, modular building system that we’re excited to introduce to players. Our thatch building set comes in 5x5, 3x3, and 1x1 prefab pieces, which you can use to build out a standard base camp. In addition to walls, floors, roofs, and windows, we also offer triangle floors, normal and inverted triangle walls, angled roof pieces, and pillars and beams to provide extra structural support. Utilize all of these pieces to create the base camp of your dreams!

You will house all of your crafting benches and refineries at your camp, which includes the workbench, weapon bench, armor bench, survivor beacon, medical bench, textile bench, salvage bench, repair bench, furnace, and firepit (don’t actually put your firepit in your house, that’s a fire hazard). If you don’t have the crafting recipe or materials to craft any of these, keep making progress on your quests to unlock more.

You can add chests (Primitive, Scrap Metal, and Sturdy Metal for the most amount of space) to store your items, lighting to see in the dark, and dress up your home with a bed and other various pieces of furniture. 

Get Cozy!

Decorating your base camp with furniture and other fun items isn’t just for show. Jazz up your base to get a bonus Comfort Buff. The more you decorate, the stronger the buff gets.

• Check your Camp Comfort Level at the Survivor Beacon

• Each decoration gives you comfort points (1-10 points per item)

• Some items, like plants, can be placed multiple times for more points (up to 5 of the same type)

• Other items, like a bed, only give you points for the first one you place

Your goal is to reach a Camp Comfort Rank of 10. At this max rank, you'll get a big bonus of +50 stamina that lasts for 20 minutes and is refreshed by sleeping at the camp. Your Comfort Buff will also persist when traveling to Expedition, giving you the edge over your opponents!

Since the 1400s, countless seacrafts, aircrafts, and people have disappeared from history through the void only to land on the islands of this archipelago. Most individuals who make it through to the other side don’t survive long. Those that do survive fall into two groups: Survivors and Outcasts. 

Survivors are motivated by the will to live and will avoid killing humans unless in self-defense. Some survivors have given up searching for a way home, while others continue to hold on to hope. Whatever the case, they make for good allies, as there is always safety in numbers.

Captain Wade Davis is a hardened ex-Operation Victoria commander who lost her leg in a workplace disaster. She protects the camp with you and wants any path back home. She also acts as your early-game guide.

Dr. Fynn Sullivan is the soft-spoken Southern scientist who became obsessed with Kennedite and sabotaged Operation Victoria. Skittish but brilliant, he hides in a secure cave refining navigation theory for a route home. 

Dr. Sophie Calloway is a British medic and epidemiologist who arrived with early signs of a violent syndrome affecting some of the island inhabitants. She is half outsider to both Outcasts and Survivors. She brews medicines from local flora while searching for a cure for her own volatile impulses, which are caused by the syndrome. 

Dorothy Tan is a rising Australian fauna expert and survival TV host who landed here only two years ago and immediately became the islands’ energetic hunting specialist. She teaches animal behavior and safe harvesting, and remains convinced she will bring proof of her adventure home someday.

Vlad “Katyol” Katyolov is a jovial ex-Soviet naval cook who channels homespun ingenuity into feeding everyone with whatever the islands provide. Endlessly kind with a few quirky habits, he mediates tensions and fears that he will one day become sick like the Outcasts. 

Josefina “Jo” Mercer is a Caracas-born DEA enforcer stranded while chasing smugglers who now runs weapons and judges everyone by their usefulness. She is fiercely protective of her found family, especially Fynn, and she hunts Outcasts without hesitation. She seeks revenge on the smugglers she believes are also somewhere on the island.

Outcasts are travelers to the Rift who have succumbed to a violent syndrome due to their extended time in the void between worlds. While survivors have found a certain harmony amongst themselves, Outcasts are uninterested in getting along. They have instead created a mystic, cult-like ethos that binds them to nature and the mysteries of these islands.

Outcasts have three difficulty tiers and three archetypes, which are as follows:

Marksman: Keeps their distance and picks players off with rifles or bows from high ground. More likely to flee when pressured, so an aggressive playstyle makes taking them down easier.

Bruiser: Heavily armored and more aggressive, but the best targets to loot if you want quality armor and can take them down without breaking it first. Most likely to spawn with a crossbow or shotgun.

Berserker: Melee-focused and recklessly aggressive. They can spawn in groups and overwhelm the player, so avoid getting surrounded. They have lower-tier armor and weapons, so they can be taken out quickly for cheap loot. They typically spawn with a basic bow or pistol, but they are resourceful and can pick up weapons from fallen enemies, including players!

Marksman Boss: Found only on Western Island, usually around the Weather Station, wearing signature cowboy gear. Keep an eye out for their purple-scoped rifle.

Balance Note: Outcasts will spawn based on the player count, meaning if you’re a solo player, you’ll have fewer Outcasts to defeat than a full squad of five.

Hostile Creatures

Ape: Known as Bonkey, this ape is a very powerful encounter. Keep your distance early on. It will attack if you start sprinting or look away, so back away slowly until you can break line of sight. It is typically found roaming around Comms during Expeditions.

Tree Bugs: Listen for the sound of their hives nestled in treetops. Firing a weapon near them will make the hives aggressive, but if you are careful, you can get close enough to loot their valuable wax. Chop or burn down the tree to stop additional tree bugs from spawning.

Hyenas: Hyenas are typically found around caves on Pioneers’ Landing and Western Island. They are a source of rawhide, which is used in many crafting recipes and for repairing the Expedition boat. Hyenas can also leave caves to attack your base camp, so stay alert. Beware the red alpha hyena variant.

Prey Creatures

Tapir: The tapir is exclusive to Western Island and is typically found grazing along the beach. If you get too close, it will make a loud squeak that may attract other players. PvP-savvy players should listen for distant squeaks to get the drop on unsuspecting rivals.

Dodo: Offer a dodo a berry to lead it around the island. Dodos can distract hyenas if you manage to lure them. You’ll find dodo nests on the beaches, and dodos can be killed for meat and for feathers used to craft arrows.

Goat: Goats are assholes. They may attack or flee depending on how they’re feeling. They can be killed for meat and horns, and the horns can be crafted into a stylish Goat Helmet.

Character and Island Limits

Each player can create up to three characters and three islands. However, there is no limit on how many of your friends' islands you can join.

Language Support

Lost Rift is able to provide language support for the following languages on Early Access launch: French, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, German, Portuguese, Spanish (Spain), Italian, Korean, Turkish, Ukrainian, Czech, Portuguese (Portugal), and Chinese (Traditional). Translations, like the rest of the game, will improve over time throughout our Early Access period. We invite players to give translation feedback in our Discord #bug-reports channel.

From the very beginning, our goal with Lost Rift was to blend the survival and extraction shooter genres into a single cohesive experience. We believed that we could create a new type of game that blends PVE and PVPVE, while still being flexible enough for different kinds of players to play the game their way.

Our team has invested an incredible amount of time and effort into this release, and now, early access is where we finish it with you. We can’t wait to finally put it into the hands of players, as your feedback will help guide us in making the game even better.

Thank you for your support, and we'll see you in the Rift!

Congratulations, Rifters! As part of the Steam Wishlist Campaign, our community has unlocked a reveal of an upcoming hostile creature that will be added to Lost Rift post-Early Access launch.

Internally, this aggressive creature is currently being referred to as Bogzilla.

For now, we will let everyone speculate on where you might be able to find this creature, and what kind of environment it might occupy...

We've still got more community perks to unlock:

Play the Lost Rift Demo for FREE September 17-24!

This is your chance to get a taste of the core gameplay loop before the full game launches on September 25, 2025.

In the demo, you'll start your journey on Pioneers’ Landing, where you'll be introduced to Wade, a character who will help you get established and guide you toward your first Expedition on Western Island. This is where you'll experience the intense extraction shooter gameplay that's at the heart of Lost Rift.

Back on Pioneers’ Landing, you’ll see the ever-present anomaly wall, which will restrict your access to the starting area for the duration of the demo. The wall will finally come down on launch day, September 25. 

Please read on below to see all of the new features and significant changes that we’ve made to the demo since our last public playtest.

Demo Notice: Any progress you make during the demo, including your character and island progress, will not transfer to the launch version of the game. All data will be wiped before the official launch.

Let us know what you think on our social channels, and be sure to add us to your Steam Wishlist.

No Host Needed: Shared Islands

We've made it easier than ever to play together. You and your squadmates can now access any Shared Island at any time, without needing the player who created the island to be online. Any player with access can launch the island whenever they want. The person who initially creates the Shared Island can send a more secure one-time invite code to each friend, which provides access to the island. Our new invite codes also help prevent unwanted guests from showing up and causing trouble.

Visually Updated Building System

The building in Lost Rift has undergone significant visual upgrades since our last playtest. The thatch building set has been completely visually overhauled and now includes the following pieces:  

• Thatch Floor Tile (5x, 3x, 1x)

• Thatch Triangle Floor Tile (5x, 3x, 1x)

• Thatch Wall Tile (5x, 3x, 1x)

• Thatch Wall Triangle (5x, 3x, 1x)

• Thatch Inverted Wall Triangle (5x, 3x, 1x)

• Thatch Angled Roof (5x, 3x, 1x)

• Thatch Angled Tile (5x, 3x, 1x)

• Wood Vertical Beam (5x, 3x, 1x)

• Wood Horizontal Beam (5x, 3x, 1x)

• Wood Diagonal Beam (5x, 3x, 1x)

• Thatch Door

We look forward to seeing what players can create with all of these options.

Many of the functional and decorative items that can be placed in your base camp have also received visual updates. We will leave these for you to explore!

Get Comfy!

Tired of a boring, lifeless base? Now you can jazz it up with some decorations and get a bonus while you're at it! Decorating your base camp with furniture and other fun items now gives you a Comfort Buff. The more you decorate, the stronger the buff gets.

• Check your Camp Comfort Level at the Survivor Beacon

• Each decoration gives you comfort points (1-10 points per item)

• Some items, like plants, can be placed multiple times for more points (up to 5 of the same type)

• Other items, like a bed, only give you points for the first one you place

Your goal is to reach a Camp Comfort Rank of 10 by getting 1000 points. At this max rank, you'll get a big bonus: a +50 stamina buff that lasts for 20 minutes and is refreshed by sleeping at the camp. Your Comfort Buff will also persist when travelling to Expedition, to get the edge over your opponents!

Progression Updates

If you have played in multiple playtests, you’ll know that early-game progression is something we have been hammering away on to perfect it. We have been focused on helping new players become more established at camp and better prepared for the battles ahead on Expedition. 

Many changes have been made to streamline the gameplay flow, including adjustments to the amount of resources picked up and harvested, crafting recipe requirements, and the process of unlocking different recipes. 

Visual Upgrades

Lost Rift continues to look better than ever as new game art floods the islands. You’ll notice visual changes to foliage, upgrades to POIs on the Western Island, as well as art updates to consumables, decorative items, workbenches, and more. 

No Infinite Revives: Heavy Wound System

When you are downed, you will now receive a debuff called Heavy Wound. This debuff will start a timer during which you will not be able to be revived again. The debuff will prevent squads from repeatedly reviving each other during active PVP altercations. 

Expedition Rejoin

If you get disconnected from an Expedition due to a server error or a crash, you'll now be able to rejoin your previous mission right away from the main menu. This means your progress, loot, and inventory will be safe. You can jump right back into the action without losing anything!

Enemy AI Improvements

We've been hard at work polishing the enemy AI and combat, making every encounter more challenging and fun. This includes everyone's favorite enemy, Bonkey. We've also made a significant change to how enemies spawn. Now, the number of enemies you face will scale to the number of players in your squad. Whether you're playing solo or with a full squad, you'll encounter a fair but challenging number of hyenas and Outcasts on your Island and during Expeditions.

Finally, we've fixed many navigation bugs that were causing enemies to act dumber than intended. They'll now move more intelligently, so be prepared!

Additional Changes

• You can now spectate your teammates on Expedition upon your death.

• We are now enforcing a character limit and an Island limit. Each player can create up to three characters and three islands. However, there is no limit on how many of your friends' islands you can join.

• We’ve added Transfer Item Stacks and Loot All buttons in the inventory screen, allowing you to optimize your backpack and empty loot faster into chests after Expeditions. 

• Improved gamepad support, especially in Big Picture mode

• Dodos now eat berries!

If you enjoy the demo, be sure to wishlist us on Steam and come back on September 25 for the Early Access release!

ANOMALY LOG UPDATE

Dr. Emilia Gates, Operation Victoria

SUBJECT: Anomaly Log Post-Incident Analysis - Historical Maritime Wreck “Ranger” (Reference: Event VIC-0531)