Nested Lands news & patch notes

Hi, survivors!

Welcome to version 0.8.0.0! This major update introduces the long awaited Skill System, touching nearly every aspect of gameplay, alongside the brand new Pillory and prisoner management system. Without further ado, let's dig into it!

New Feature: Skill System

• You will now earn XP and level up naturally by performing actions in the world, unlocking specific passive effects and bonuses;

• The system has different points, with effects currently integrated into the following disciplines:

  • Combat & Ranged Combat

  • Crafting & Cooking

  • Farming & Forest Mastery

  • Medicine, Leadership, and Survival

• Added dedicated UI views to easily track your skill levels, current XP progression, and the bonuses you have unlocked.

New Feature: The Pillory & Prisoners

You can now capture defeated enemies and put them on display in your village to boost morale! Here is a guide on how to use the new system:

How to Capture Prisoners:

• First, construct a Pillory within your village boundaries (the blueprint recipe is available in-game);

• Go to any Point of Interest and engage a group of enemies. When most of the group is defeated, the last surviving enemy has a chance to drop their weapons and beg for mercy, after they drop to low health (they will kneel down);

• Approach the kneeling enemy. A new interaction prompt will appear allowing you to arrest them and send them directly to your village's Pillory;

• The prisoner will appear locked in the Pillory.

Pillory Effects & Management:

• Each Pillory holding an active prisoner grants a continuous happiness bonus to your villagers;

• Prisoners will succumb and perish after approximately 50 in-game hours (~2 in-game days). You will need to periodically capture new prisoners to maintain your village's happiness bonus;

• Known issue: Currently, deleting or moving a Pillory that contains a prisoner will leave the prisoner's model stuck at the original location. We are working on a fix for this in an upcoming hotfix.

Multiplayer & Player State Fixes

• Implemented several fixes to improve NPC and player synchronization across the network, particularly focusing on keeping combat and movement animations aligned.

• Fixed critical bugs related to the player respawn sequence.

  • Fixed a bug that occasionally caused players or their equipment to appear invisible to other clients.

Balance & Content Updates

• Performed a wide-ranging balance pass adjusting various construction costs, crafting recipes, and underlying item data to ensure a smoother progression curve.

We hope you enjoy building up your character! Please leave your feedback and reviews - we make sure to read everything. It really helps us Nested Lands and make it a better game for everyone. Stay safe!

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Hi, survivors! This update brings a highly requested feature to multiplayer: PVP support (well, friendly fire as we can say)! You can now choose to enable friendly fire and battle it out with your friends. We have also introduced a new loot mechanic for enemies who beg for mercy, smoothed out combat animations, and fixed a critical physics bug causing entities to sink into the ground.

New Feature: Multiplayer PVP

• Added a new Player vs. Player damage toggle to the multiplayer manager and room creation screen;

• The lobby host has full authority over the PVP Damage Policy, meaning the host decides if friendly fire is enabled for the match;

• Fully implemented and synchronized PVP hit detection for all weapon types: melee strikes, bow shots, and thrown spears;

• Updated localization and UI positioning to cleanly accommodate the new PVP settings.

Combat & Enemy AI

• Enemies who successfully beg for mercy will now drop a "Mercy Bag." This networked loot drop rewards players who choose to spare their foes and features hidden map icon behavior;

• Significantly improved enemy attack animations across the board, specifically for one-handed weapons, shields, knives, and two-handed weapons;

• Added a behavior graph safety check before an NPC initiates an attack, and ensured attack animation movement is strictly handled by the host to prevent multiplayer desyncs.

World & Physics Fixes

• Fixed a major collision and physics issue that was causing players and animals to slowly sink into the ground;

• Implemented a background fix to safely recover save data for village buildings that had become stuck in an invalid "repair" state;

• Added the Fire Pyre Point of Interest (POI) to the world map.

Quality of Life & UI

• Added a subtle interactable highlight to quest notes and board notes to make them easier to spot. The overall size of interactable highlights in the world has also been reduced to be less intrusive;

• Added a new, distinct Fast Travel icon to the world map.

Thank you for your feedback! We love seeing your messages and reviews - we read every single one and take notes! You reviews greatly help us to shape the game and improve it so feel free to leave one. Stay safe!

This update brings a new level of intelligence and atmosphere to your enemies. We've introduced nice voice and audio system improvements, given enemies the ability to investigate fallen allies, and improved how villagers manage themselves within your settlement.

1. Enemy AI & Combat

• Dead Body Investigation: Enemies will now actively notice and investigate the dead bodies of their allies! They will attempt to find the direction the attack came from and track the player.

• Smart Retargeting: If an enemy gets stuck or cannot reach you during a ranged attack, they will intelligently retarget to other reachable foes rather than standing still.

• Combat Animations: Improved the attack animations for knife and sword-wielding melee enemies to make strikes feel more fluid and natural.

• Combat Stability: Fixed a bug causing null entries when updating the list of engaged enemies during complex fights.

2. Audio & Voice System Overhaul

• Reactions & Barks: Enemies will now play context-specific voice lines when discovering dead allies.

  • Added ambient idle barks for enemies while they are patrolling their camps.

• Faction Audio: Fully configured voice audio arrays for all main enemy types (Bandits, Soldiers, Priests).

• Villager Voices: Enhanced villager voice variety, adding new contextual dialogue like sighs and attack shouts to make your settlement sound more alive.

3. Villagers & Village Management

• Self-Equipping: Villagers will now periodically check village chests and automatically grab better gear for themselves! Keep those armories stocked.

• Raid Scaling: Refactored the Raid system. The number of raiders that attack your settlement now correctly scales based on the total number of villagers you have.

• The Plague: Fixed a major logic flaw in the plague system. Villagers who reach the "fully plagued" state will now correctly die instead of magically being healed.

• Visual Fixes: Fixed a hilarious but unintended bug where villagers would go completely bald while washing in the wash huts.

4. Multiplayer & Synchronization

• Defending Enemies: Fixed a desync issue where defending enemy behavior was not accurately replicated for client players.

• Enemy Data: Corrected general enemy data syncing to ensure hosts and clients see the same combat states.

5. Fixes & Debug Tools

• Visuals: Fixed an issue where the holstered dagger would clip through the male character model.

• System Fixes: Fixed null references occurring in the body system (affecting animators, audios, and controllers).

  • Fixed an underlying issue with the item creation logic in loot setups.

  • Improved animation metadata and compiler configurations for better overall performance. Enjoy the changes and don't forget to share your impressions about the update!

The long overdue player skills system is finally arriving in June, and it's something many of you have been asking for. Here's a short breakdown of what to expect.

There will be 9 skills across three categories — Exploration, Combat, and Village — each with 10 levels to progress through, plus special milestone perks.

Combat Skills

Melee Combat

Leveled up by hitting enemies or animals with melee weapons, including sneak attacks. As you progress, your attacks will consume less stamina, and you'll eventually unlock faster attack speed, a longer parry stun timer, and, lastly, double damage from your final combo hit.

Ranged Weapons

Leveled up by landing hits and headshots with ranged weapons. As you progress, stamina costs will drop, and special perks will let you craft twice as many arrows and improve headshot kills. You'll also learn to stun enemies with a bow bash, not just hit them. 

Exploration Skills 

Survival 

It is leveled up simply by eating, drinking, and just doing your daily routine. It progressively reduces all your survival needs, and the special perks are very useful: lower stamina costs for running and dodging, and, ultimately, no fall damage at all.

Forest Mastery

Leveled by harvesting plants, chopping trees, and mining rocks. You'll be able to chop trees and mine rocks more efficiently , and special perks unlock double resources from harvestable plants, dead animals, and farm animals. The max perk also adds a chance of "Golden" variations from raised animals.

Village Skills

Leadership

Leveled up by creating and upgrading different building types and completing villager quests. It reduces villager survival needs over time, and special perks make your villagers work faster, improve trader prices, and ultimately allow villagers to never be unhappy.

Farming

Leveled by planting and harvesting crops. It decreases growth times, water fills twice as much, and animal traps yield more resources. Max level doubles your entire crop yield on harvest.

Crafting

Improved by crafting items at the Builder, Blacksmith, Carpenter, Weaver, and other crafting stations. Crafting speed grows as you progress, and special perks make blueprint construction faster, reduce item durability loss, and finally give a 50% chance to double the outcome of any recipe.

Cooking

Leveled at the Cookhouse and Campfire. Meals restore progressively more hunger and thirst, and special perks give the Good Diet stat real utility: cold resistance, movement speed boost, and health regeneration. Bonus: the drunk status will no longer distort your vision. Though maybe some of you like this effect :)

Medicine

Acquired at the Apothecary's Hut, using medicine, and burning Plague Sites. Healing and anti-Plague damage improve together as you level up. Special perks give you a washing-based healing, increased Plague Resistance, and ultimately, the villager infection chance is cut in half.

Skills are tied to your actions, so you'll naturally advance the ones that match your playstyle. More details on exactly how progression works are coming soon — stay tuned.

Greetings, Survivors! This update brings a brand new dynamic to enemy combat: if they can't reach you, they will throw rocks! We have also significantly improved cross-island multiplayer syncing, refined stealth-kill audio, and added several quality-of-life visual fixes.

Combat & Enemy AI

Enemies have learned to deal with players trying to exploit unreachable high ground!

• Ranged Retaliation: Enemies will now throw rocks at the player if they can't physically reach them.

  • Throwable rocks have dedicated collision detection and deal damage upon hit.

  • This new mechanic, including the throwing animations and the rock projectiles themselves, is fully synchronized across multiplayer sessions.

• Archer Behavior: Fixed a bug where archers would continue shooting at their original target even after taking damage and intentionally changing targets.

• Mobility: Stopped players from crouching while sprinting with a drawn bow.

Multiplayer & Synchronization

We've made exploring apart from your friends much more consistent with the new cross-island syncing logic.

• Cross-Island Loot: Extended cross-island loot drops for client players to include all destructible props. Fallen trees and broken props will now correctly stay in their destroyed state for players on the other side of the map.

• Map & POIs:

  • Fixed an issue where Point of Interest (POI) discovery was not syncing for clients.

  • Client players will now accurately see newly discovered POI icons appear on their map.

  • Optimized network traffic to sync only the data for newly discovered POIs.

• Villager Syncing:

  • Synchronized the loaded inventories of villagers across the network.

  • Ensured client players can properly see the detailed information about recently recruited villagers.

• Quest & Animation Fixes:

  • Fixed Balder's rotation appearing incorrectly for other players.

  • Fixed Balder randomly teleporting in multiplayer after completing the initial tutorial.

  • Corrected the two-handed weapon running animation on remote peers so it displays correctly for everyone.

Stealth & Audio

• Stealth Syncing: Replicated stealth-kill voice lines and sound effects over the network. Your friends will now hear the associated audio when you pull off a stealth takedown.

• Stealth Logic: Fixed a multiplayer desync by properly blocking stealth-kills if the targeted NPC had already detected the client player attempting the takedown.

• Enemy Audio: Cleaned up enemy combat shouts and populated new specific voice clips for stealth takedowns to make ambushes feel more impactful.

Quality of Life & UI

• Survival UI: The "Cold" status effect icon is now automatically hidden if your equipped armor fully neutralizes the current environmental cold.

• Sleep Visuals:

  • Your character will now automatically exit the crouch state before sleeping to prevent hovering or incorrect bed heights.

  • Weapons are now properly hidden while sleeping and will display correctly upon waking up.

• Hotbar Fix: Fixed an issue where the quick slots/hotbar would occasionally disappear after closing the Bug Reporter.

• Character Visuals: Fixed off-screen rendering issues for inactive meshes when loading into the game.

Environment & Fixes

• Navigation: Updated the navmesh obstacle settings for broken cages so enemies can walk around them correctly. Fixed navigation issues for some Bandit Cage Random Events.

• Props & World: Fixed a floating tree in the Silent Forest and ensured the correct prefabs spawn in the Hostile Soldier Random Events.

That's all for now, folks! Update the game, enjoy the changes and may Gods protect you on your adventure!

Greetings, Survivors!

We're past the halfway point on our journey to the game’s full release, and we wanted to take a moment to look back at everything we've implemented, share where we are right now, and give you a proper look at the road ahead.

Pop a squat by the fire — there's a lot to cover.

What We’ve Built

March — Village Expansion Update:

Your village grew. Literally. You can now unlock a new village area tied to village level progression. We also raised the villager cap from 15 to 20 and introduced stone ruins to mark the edges of your growing settlement.

Aside from that, we also launched harvest camps — neutral campsites scattered across the islands where you can hire workers to collect resources for you. Pair them with the new collection platform building, and you've got a whole supply chain running while you explore.

April — Animal Husbandry Update:

Chickens, pigs, and the occasional golden egg. The animal husbandry update added two new buildings — the chicken coop and the pigpen — in which domesticated animals generate resources so long as they're fed. We also added some new villager quests, the exploration notes system (all discovered lore notes are now in a special tab), and our favorite feature: fast travel on a pig, complete with suitable sound effects.

May — Combat Update:

We're updating the feel of the combat system based on your feedback. We’re adding an input buffer so attacks feel smoother and register properly, plus a new parry system, posture damage, better shield blocking, and camera zoom while aiming or blocking.

Enemy AI will also be smarter: different weapons, shields, new attack behaviors, and even a mercy mechanic where enemies will beg for their lives.

Raids will be getting more tactical too, with improved tower defense mechanics.

What's to Come

June — New Map Updates:

North Plains and Silent Forest are both getting expanded and reworked — better POIs, better loot distribution, and more reasons to check them out over and over.

And finally, the long overdue player skills system is coming, a feature many of you have asked for. There will be 9 skills with 10 levels each, plus special perks.

July — Plague Rework:

The Plague is getting a full redesign. There'll be new areas called Plague Nexus, controlled by  stronger versions of Plague Sites, with new enemies and environmental hazards.

You’ll need resistance potions or a plague mask just to survive there, and you’ll have to break the nexus shell before you can burn it. We’re also adding NPC Hamlets — after you clear a Plague Nexus, NPCs return to form a Hamlet. They’ll occasionally send supplies to your village and unlock new trade routes.

We’re also adding proper tutorials, so new and old features won't feel confusing anymore.

August — Burning Village Update:

Your village will now be able to catch fire. Enemies might throw torches during raids, and you and your villagers will have to fight back the inferno with buckets of water. Damaged buildings will require repairs. This means that the impact of raids will feel a lot more drastic.

We’re also adding a compass with quest markers, as many of you have requested, plus village titles that change as your settlement grows, granting happiness bonuses.

September — The Museum:

The Museum will let you collect relics and piece together the lore of Nested Lands. Alongside this feature, we’re introducing narrative side quests with more curious stories and unique rewards.

October — Dark Waters & The Final Story:

This will be the final big update before full release. It will add a completely new region with unique enemies, quests, items, and secrets. This will be where the final story arc concludes. After the ending, the game will continue in an endless tower-defense style mode where you protect everything you’ve built for as long as possible.

We’ll be testing every update before release, and bug fixing is going to stay a priority throughout the whole process.

Thanks for sticking with us, sending feedback, and being patient while we keep building the game we always imagined.

— The Nested Lands Team

Hello, survivors! We are releasing the heavily requested combat update today! The whole mechanic has received a massive overhaul and we can't wait to see your feedback on it. To celebrate, we are launching a 15% discount for a week.

Combat Overhaul: Posture, Parry & Shields

• Both the player and enemies now have Posture. Weapons and tools deal specific posture damage;

  • When an enemy's posture is broken, they will be stunned and drop their guard, leaving them open to attack. They receive a brief invincibility window to recover their balance afterward;

  • Added "Endurance" to NPCs so they no longer stagger infinitely with every single light hit;

• You can now parry incoming attacks (including enemy kicks!);

  • A successful parry blocks full damage, triggers a brief slow-motion effect, resets the enemy's endurance, and plays a distinct sound;

  • After successive parries, surrounding unengaged enemies may decide to jump into the fight;

• Shield Mechanics: Shields are now fully functional for both players and enemies.

  • Defending suppresses take-hit animations and stops stamina regeneration. Added material-specific block sounds (wood vs. metal);

  • Enemies (like Rogue Soldiers) can now carry and actively use shields to reduce incoming damage. They will drop their guard if unengaged or if their posture is broken.

Mobility & Combat Flow

• You can now sprint freely with melee weapons or a drawn bow without being forced into a slow walk or automatically sheathing your weapon. Aiming is smoothly cancelled if you begin to sprint;

• Side dodges have been enabled and the animation frames decreased (from 40 to 20) for a much snappier, responsive evasion;

• Stamina regeneration is now reduced while actively in combat. Attack cooldowns have been slightly increased to perfectly complement the new input buffering system;

• Added fully synchronized stealth-kill for multiplayer.

Enemy AI & The "Mercy" System

• Certain types of enemies now have a chance to drop their weapons, fall to their knees, and beg for mercy when their health drops below 35%;

• Enemy attack range is now dynamically based on the weapon they are using;

• Implemented new Greatsword-wielding enemies with custom animations and heavy attacks;

• Unengaged enemies circling the fight now have a chance to taunt the player.

Multiplayer & Stability

• Combat feels much heavier in multiplayer now. Take-hit visual effects (VFX) and spatialized audio (hurt voices, block sounds) are fully replicated to all peers;

• We have completely overhauled how the game handles disconnects, timeouts, and lobby transitions to ensure you never get "stuck" when a network error occurs;

• We've ironed out edge cases in the new disconnect Recovery Funnel;

  • Fixed infinite loading screens when a host returns to the main menu or loses cloud connection;

  • Implemented a centralized system to gracefully handle network drops;

  • Added strict stall timers for joining rooms, starting matches, and loading scenes. If a connection stalls, the game will now safely fall back to the Session Lobby or Main Menu rather than freezing;

  • Added dedicated popups for "Disconnecting," "Host Disconnected," and "Connection Timeouts" so you always know what happened to the session;

• Fixed an issue where clients would fail to properly unstick and despawn on the host's end when returning to the main menu.

Village, World & UI

• Harvesting AI: Revamped how harvestables are detected inside the village area. Fixed bugs preventing villagers from gathering reed fiber near the village lake, and resolved an issue where they ignored specific items in high-level villages;

Immersive Multiplayer Audio

• Consumable audio (eating, drinking, bandaging) and resource gathering (chopping wood, mining) are now fully replicated to peers with precise 3D positioning;

• Synchronized ground layer data across the network. You will now hear the correct footstep material (dirt, wood, stone) when other players walk nearby;

• Synchronized swimming strokes and jump splash audio to peers, with boosted volume and range for better feedback;

• Synchronized bow drawing, arrow releases, and attack vocal cues to peers;

• Broadcasted "take-hit" visual effects (VFX) and spatialized audio so clients correctly see and hear when other players take damage.

Visuals & Player Mechanics

• Fixed a bug where blood overlays and the "injured" state animations would not clear properly when a player respawned;

• Ensure offhand items correctly hide for other players when someone equips a two-handed weapon;

  • Fixed a bug where weapons would incorrectly parent to the "spear" grip position if the equipped item wasn't actually a spear;

• Fixed an issue where feminine body customizations would occasionally fail to preserve during multiplayer status syncs.

World & Technical Foundations

• Aligned the interaction source range with the items source range to make consuming and harvesting feel more consistent;

We are extremely excited to see everyone try the new update. We've put a lot of work in the new combat system to make it feel more fluid, complex and rewarding. Please don't hesitate to leave us a review or a message to tell us how you like it! There are many more things coming to Nested Lands in the coming months. We are working on the skills system and we will share more info about it as soon as we can. Stay safe and enjoy playing!

Hi survivors! We've had a lot of questions regarding Villagers and their locations, so today we'd like to give you a quick overview on where and how you could find them. Let's have a look at the map:

We've marked every hotspot area, where you can find a Villager. In these areas, random events happen very frequently and it's a reliable way to find quite a few of them in one run around the island. In order for the events to refresh, you need to leave from the event area to around 1/3 of the whole map scale. So by the time you do one circle, older events will already refresh and you can visit them again and see, if there's a Villager there. In general, one run should net you 2-4 villagers pretty reliably. We hope this short guide helps you find more Villagers and lead you towards prosperity. As always, thank you for your feedback! We read each Steam review and discussion and implement your feedback in the game. Stay safe in Novorellir!

Hi, survivors! This update brings a highly requested quality-of-life feature for archers with a brand new dedicated Arrow Equipment Slot. We have also resolved a critical multiplayer loading issue and implemented a massive synchronization sweep for Village and Villager data.

Equipment & Inventory

• Added a specific equipment slot for Arrows in the Inventory/Equipment view;

• You can now drag and drop arrows directly into their new designated slot;

Multiplayer & Synchronization

• Fixed a major bug where starting a new Multiplayer game would sometimes cause clients to get stuck on an infinite loading screen;

• Client players will now correctly load and see accurate real-time data for villagers, including:

  • Health and Plague Level

  • Hydration, Nutrition, and Hygiene data

  • Equipped Armor

• Synchronized the village's daily fuel consumption and ale consumption states.

UI, Visuals & Quality of Life

• FUpdated the player animation that plays when using the new Fast Travel system;

• Improved how font asset scaling is calculated across different screen sizes to prevent text formatting issues;

• Improved the background logic for the Villager Info view to ensure stats are displayed more accurately;

Thank you so much for your feedback! We read all of the Steam reviews and community discussions and deeply appreciate your input on the game. Next major update is already in the works and we have some really cool things cooking up! Stay safe!

Hi survivors! In this update, we've added new Fast Travel system and highly requested Unstuck feature!

New Feature: Fast Travel System

• Discover unique fast travel points scattered across the North Plains and other regions to quickly move around the map;

• Added a dedicated fast travel interface to select destinations. You can only travel to points you have previously discovered;

• Fast travel points feature brand new visuals and include specific lore notes.

Unstuck Feature

• Added a new "Unstuck" button to the Pause Menu. If you ever find yourself trapped in terrain or props, this button will find the nearest safe ground and relocate you.

Building & Construction

• Added the ability to move existing structures within your village;

  • Players can rotate buildings during the move procedure;

  • Added checks to prevent moving buildings while players are inside them;

  • Characters and guards will be safely displaced or removed from structures being moved;

  • Added warning messages if a building cannot be moved to a specific location;

• Increased the placement limit for both standard Garden Beds and Garden Beds (2x2);

• Fixed an issue where constructions were not dropping all of their used resources when destroyed.

Gameplay Adjustments

• Players will now play a quick holster/sheath animation before gathering resources, bathing, or drinking water from the well;

• Torches will now only lose durability when they are actively enabled and held;

• Fixed an issue where enemies were able to shoot at players through rocks and trees. Arrows also no longer get stuck floating in the air;

• Reduced the number of chickens and enemies required to unlock their respective achievements;

• Livestock corpses will now automatically disappear after being dead for a set amount of time. Added new video tutorials for Harvest Camps and Animal Husbandry.

Quests & Villagers

• Added new varieties and improvements to the Villager Quest pool;

  • Note: The "Burn Plague Site" villager quest has been removed from rotation;

• Fixed a bug in the quest unlocking logic;

• Fixed a critical progression issue where the Builder's Hut would fail to unlock after the player grabbed the necessary schematics.

Environment & Visuals

• Added new interactables and changed specific plant spawn setups in the Silent Forest;

• Updated the 3D model for the Red Herb;

• Fixed an issue where Plague Wind protection was failing in the corners of certain buildings;

• Removed the roof from the Weaver (Tier 2) building and fixed its collider layers;

• Removed the Museum from the unlockable buildings list at Village Level 10;

• Fixed an issue where multiple villagers would try to sit in the same chair during their evening rest hours.

UI & Technical Changes

• Adjusted the text sizing on option sliders, inventory "sort" buttons, and craft "collect" buttons so that longer translated words fit correctly;

• Fixed an error that occurred when rapidly adding items to a crafting queue;

• Fixed a bug where a worker appeared to collect more items than intended;

• Fixed an exception regarding enemy detection in multiplayer;

• Plugins: Updated several backend plugins for general stability.

Multiplayer & Technical Fixes

• Consumable graphics are now correctly synchronized for all players when an item is used;

• Fixed a bug where a player's Bow visual would disappear or reset incorrectly upon loading a save in multiplayer;

• Added safeguards to prevent networked equipment from force-updating incorrectly on load;

• Game time will now only start progressing after all players have fully connected and loaded their save data;

• Added new quests and improved the synchronization of the Quest Board. Client players will now correctly see remaining days, accepted requests, and recruitment progress;

• Correctly synchronized current crafting times and automated village production recipes when client players open craft stations;

• Fixed bugs where other players' icons would disappear from the map, and resolved quest camera issues in multiplayer.

Thank you for the feedback! We are working on a bigger update and on other highly requested features. Stay safe in the Plaguelands!

Hello survivors!

This major update introduces the highly anticipated Animal Husbandry system, allowing you to raise and manage livestock. We are also bringing your outposts to life by populating Harvest Camps with working peasants, and we've implemented the foundation for a brand-new Codex lore-tracking system (not yet available).

Animal Husbandry - new major gameplay mechanic

• Added two new buildings: Chicken Coop and Pigpen. Raise chickens to produce eggs and house pigs to produce truffles;

• You can trap animals at new buildings;

• Trapped animals will generate resources automatically and you can always kill them for additional meat;

• Animals require Animal Feed to survive. If resources run low and animals aren't fed, they will starve and perish;

• You will receive toast messages if animals die from starvation, and we've fixed duplicate notifications when spawning your last available chicken;

• Animals will sleep at night and have improved navigation to avoid detecting or bumping into villagers;

• There is a chance to get special rare items from both chickens and pigs.

Harvest Camps: Working Peasants

Harvest Camps are no longer just empty structures; they are now active centers of labor.

• Populated both North Plains and Silent Forest harvest camps with working peasants;

• Added specialized mining activities complete with new animation picking states and directional logic for the North Plains mining camp;

• Removed the cooldowns on harvest camps and adjusted their graphics for a more active, "lived-in" appearance.

Gameplay

• When you start harvesting a resource while holding a weapon, the sheathing animation is now skipped. The weapon instantly holsters, allowing your character to transition directly into the gathering animation without awkward delays;

• Enemies killed outside the village area will no longer turn into a Plague Focus. Only enemies killed within your village boundaries carry this risk, making exploration significantly less punishing;

• Fixed a bug that caused the player character to pause or stutter unexpectedly while swimming and when needs to save the game.

Saving

• Now you can save your game everywhere!

Audio & Technical Fixes

• Fixed the timing of ground footstep audio and improved sound detection to ensure footsteps sound natural on all terrain types.

Thank you so much for playing Nested Lands! We truly appreciate your feedback. There’s so much more in the works right now and we can’t wait to share it with everyone.

Stay vigilant and enjoy raising animals!

Hi! We have another update ready, which helps us prepare the game for the next content update.

Multiplayer & Plugin Stability

• General stability improvements.

Village & Management

• Improved the logic for Tavern doors to prevent them from "breaking" or getting stuck when multiple villagers attempt to pass through at the same time;

• Corrected a bug where village area calculations would fail upon loading a save, ensuring your construction limits are always accurate;

• Added a check to automatically disable rocks that occasionally spawned inside of buildings.

World, Quests & Raids

• Fixed an issue where routine raids could trigger at the same time as main quest raids. These events will now be properly spaced out;

• Repositioned several plague sites in the North Plains to move them further away from enemy camps and active events.

• Now after all plagues are destroyed, they no longer respawn, meaning you can completely clean out the map.

UI & Improvements

• Interaction menus now show available input shortcuts;

• Added dedicated Drop and Transfer shortcut inputs to storage views;

• Improved how the game handles item clicks based on which shortcuts are currently being held, allowing for faster bulk transfers and item dropping.

Technical Fixes

• Resolved a minor issue where the village center notification could trigger twice under specific conditions.

This update marks an important milestone with the upgrade of the game engine to Unity 6 (6000.3.12) for better stability and performance. We have introduced new village management features, performed a wide-reaching balance pass, and refined core combat animations.

Village & Gameplay Balance

• Increased the capacity of Wells and Wash Huts; they can now support up to 4 villagers each;

• When dismantling or removing chests, dropped items now correctly retain their durability and other specific states;

• Birdhouses have been significantly improved. They now drop more than one item at a time and have Feathers added to their potential outputs;

• Performed a wide-ranging balance pass on food, loot tables, trade values, and various crafting recipes.

Multiplayer & Synchronization

• Improved the synchronization of buildings to ensure structures load correctly for both host and clients;

• Refined how world objects communicate their state to ensure consistency across all clients in high-latency environments.

Technical Improvements & Unity Update

• The game has been updated to Unity 6 (6000.3.12). This major engine update provides a more modern foundation for future performance and visual improvements;

• Fixed transitions for combat animations while using tools in a crouched position;

• Improved performance in both terrains (North Plains and Silent Forest), plus improved performance when having a bigger village.

UI & Audio

• Updated and simplified the tutorial system, including specific fixes for the Professions and Hygiene videos;

• Fixed an issue where the Village Priest or locked peasants would occasionally have overlapping audio lines;

• The gender selection toggle now correctly resets when exiting the character creation view.

Visuals & NPC Polish

• Fixed a bug that prevented players from interacting with certain important NPCs;

• Reduced the weight of Freja’s "look-at-player" eye movement. This prevents her eyeballs from clipping through the character model during close interactions;

• Fixed a bug where plague-related dialogue would trigger even if no plague was present in the area;

• Fixed a collision issue in the Town of Vardi church and adjusted the height of various objects to prevent floating assets.

Hello survivors!

This update introduces a good inventory buff with increased stack sizes, a complete overhaul of body and villager synchronization for multiplayer, and significant optimizations for world performance and lighting

Multiplayer & Synchronization

• Added full network synchronization for spawning, picking up, and burning bodies in crematory pits;

• Dead human remains are now correctly removed for all players when the Cremator wraps them;

• Villager appearances are now fully synchronized across all clients;

• Fixed a bug where multiple villagers would occasionally sit in the same chair;

• Resolved an issue where villagers would continue to recover health while incapacitated by the plague;

• Fixed "sea sounds" occasionally mixing between different players;

• Ensured that specific world events (like Balder's enable events) are correctly triggered only on the host.

Gameplay & Balance

• The maximum stack size for most items has been increased from 50 to 99;

• Increased the resource output of all Harvest Camp recipes to make automation more rewarding;

• Performed a balance pass on Birdhouse recipes; increased general outputs while removing feathers from additional rewards;

• Players no longer automatically unequip hand items when swimming or sleeping;

  Implemented a minimum value for player infection to ensure the mechanic remains a consistent threat;

• Smoothed the animation transition between Bow Aiming and Spear simulations.

World & Environment

• Updated terrain and vegetation systems for better performance and visual quality;

• Fixed a lighting glitch that occurred in large villages with multiple active light sources;

• Increased the distance at which village light sources are rendered;

• Updated water waves and adjusted the height of ocean/lake colliders to better align with the player's swim height;

• Moved soldier spawn areas in the Silent Forest to be further away from the lake.

UI & Quality of Life

• The "Navigate on Quickslots" input hint text is now correctly translated across all supported languages;

• Fixed an issue where the boat quest marker would occasionally fail to appear on the map.

Technical Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue making the Weaver Table difficult to interact with;

• Fixed a bug where "Foul Smelling" flies would remain on the player after death;

• Resolved a pivot issue with the Right Hand Handler.

• Fixed tree heights in the North Plains and addressed an exception error that occurred when killing villagers within the village boundaries.

Hello, survivors!

The first major update to Nested Lands - Village Expansion - is now live. We’ve added a brand new Harvest mechanic, made the Village area expandable, fixed a ton of bugs, and did requested balance changes. Below is the full list of changes:

Village Growth & Expansion

• Your village construction area will expand when your village level increases.

• The area will also show up on the world map, so you can see your borders at all times.

• Your Guard Patrol will automatically adjust to the new area.

• The area also changed quite a bit: you will see new stone ruins that show your current village size limit. 

New Feature: Harvest Camps

• You will find brand new neutral camps across all Islands.

• In these camps, you will hire people from Worker Camps to collect items for you.

• Each camp can give you different items.

• Items will be auto-delivered to a new building.

• The first camp that you find will trigger a brand new tutorial quest.

New Building: Import Warehouse

• Used to receive loot from the camps;

• Unlocked when you trigger the tutorial for the camps.

• We changed the name of the building to "Collection Plataform" to match the 3D model.

Multiplayer & Client Stability

• Resolved a critical bug where clients were unable to build if they died in the Silent Forest and respawned in the North Plains.

• Fixed an issue where archers were unable to deal damage to client players.

• Fixed inconsistent Point of Interest (POI) discovery between the host and clients when on different islands.

• Fixed "invisible" caged peasants that sometimes appeared in multiplayer;

• Synchronized villager toolboxes and torch states so they appear correctly for everyone;

• Fixed a bug where leveling up the village wouldn't unlock new buildings for client players.

 Combat & Survival

• Fixed a bug where players were not receiving bleed damage;

• Players now correctly become infected while building structures;

• Adjusted the armor values for Leather Armor and Traveler’s Garb to better match their visual appearance;

• Improved arrow speed and physics for more reliable combat.

World & Exploration

• Silent Forest: Moved several Plague Spots to better positions;

• Adjusted the location of Berry and Cotton bushes near the village for easier early-game access;

• Fixed a bug where the Freja map marker would disappear if the player moved too far from the docks;

• Fixed the height of the Town of Vardi church and resolved collision issues in various random event locations.

Player & NPC Refinements

• Newly recruited villagers now receive an initial speed boost to help them reach their tasks faster;

• Fixed a deformation issue on the female laborer model;

• Fixed a "jittering" effect that occurred when the player was crouching;

• I increased the base size for several items (like Torches) to make them easier to pick up;

• Items dropped on the ground now maintain a more natural rotation/orientation;

• Main-hand equipment is now hidden when using the wash hut for better immersion.

Technical Fixes

• Fixed a bug where enemies would continue to run in the background after the player returned to the main menu;

• Resolved a bug where the Bug Report tool would get stuck when interacting with the Village Center;

Many other under the hood fixes, improving game's stability.

More fixes:

• Fixed crematory navigation setup

• "Added to quickslot" button does not appear on craft tab view

• Fixed height of several trees near village area

• Fixed wrong names for SF harvest camps load

• Fixed being unable to close Gamepad options tab with gamepad

• Fixed Village Center note position

• Fixed harvest camp quest notification appearing every time player gets near a camp

Hello! This update addresses travel issues between islands, improves the experience for gamepad players, and streamlines the requirements for upgrading your village buildings.

Multiplayer & Travel

• Resolved a major bug where players were occasionally launched high into the air when travelling between islands.

• Implemented a new safety system. When your inventory is full and items are dropped on the ground, the game now ensures they land in a valid, reachable position rather than falling through the floor or spawning in inaccessible areas.

• Fixed an issue where Raiders in "The Will of Melwas" quest were dropping incorrect loot.

Gameplay & Progression

• Changed the Carpenter Level 2 requirement from Wood Planks to Stones. This ensures players don't get stuck during the repair quest phase.

• You no longer unequip your items when using the wash tub. Instead, the graphics for your items are simply hidden during the animation to keep things immersive and efficient.

• Adjusted the interaction hitboxes for plant bushes near the game tutorial area, making them much easier to harvest.

UI & Controller Support

• Fixed a an error that occurred when using quickslots with a controller.

• Adjusted the increment speed for custom options when using a gamepad for more precise control.

• Fixed the brightness slider so it displays the correct values.

• Resolved an issue where resetting options wouldn't always return values to their defaults.

• Disabled the unused "Raider Quantity" option to avoid confusion.

• Limited the minimum time settings for "Real Time Minutes" to ensure game balance remains intact.

World & Environment

• Resolved an issue where trees would occasionally load inside of buildings.

• Performed a backend reorganization of the Trader Manager. That makes the Trader system more stable under the hood.

Technical Improvements

• Added a new method to toggle off-hand item visibility, which will lead to smoother transitions during various world interactions.

• Cleaned up unused components from the Village Manager to optimise memory usage.

Hello, survivors!

This update focuses on significant graphical improvements, improved UI feedback for sleeping, and several vital fixes for inventory bugs and multiplayer stability.

1. Visuals & Rendering

• Graphical Overhaul: Improved overall lighting, fog, and rendering quality for a more immersive environment.

• Character Models: * Refined the beard models (styles 3 and 5) for the male character.

  • Updated the Priestess material to be double-sided, fixing visual gaps in her clothing.

• Environment: Improved the camera's right-angle collision to prevent it from clipping through the world.

2. Settings & UI

New options and HUD improvements based on community feedback.

• Camera Shake Toggle: You can now enable or disable camera shake in the settings menu.

• Sleep HUD: Added a clearer and more informative HUD to track time while your character is sleeping.

• UI Stability: Fixed a freeze that occurred when trying to close the Village Manager while the Bug Reporter was open.

  • The Bug Reporter is now disabled in the Demo version to streamline the interface.

• Camera Fixes: Fixed the camera not working correctly while in Building Mode.

  • Resolved a bug where the camera would freeze after returning to the main menu and reloading a save.

3. Gameplay & Inventory

• Inventory Safety: Fixed a critical bug where unequipping an item while your inventory was full would cause its durability to reset.

• Quest Fixes: Resolved an issue where collecting "The Tome of Last Rites" would incorrectly complete the "Fire Pyre Schematics" task.

4. Multiplayer Fixes

• Resource Sync: Fixed an issue where players could place blueprints without actually consuming resources.

• Crafting: Resolved a rare bug where players could infinitely collect crafting results from stations.

• Raid Logic: Fixed a bug where saves with completed raids wouldn't correctly start the next countdown for the players.

·         Cages: Improved the synchronization of opening cages and peasant reactions in multiplayer sessions.

5. NPCs & World Logic

• Trader Spawning: * Fixed the Trader's location issue.

  • Improved the Random Event system to better handle fixed Trader spots on both islands.

• Villager Behavior: * Fixed the morning routine logic for the Village Priest.

  • If a peasant is killed while in a cage, their crying audio will now stop immediately.

Systems & Stability

• The automated backup system is now active for Single Player games, ensuring your progress is safe just like in multiplayer;

• Fixed an issue where non-host players sometimes wouldn't take damage from arrows;

• Resolved a bug where the "Will of Melwas" raid would occasionally fail to start;

• Fixed a crash that could occur when picking up items too quickly.

World & Environment

• Improved terrain tessellation - ground surfaces now have more depth and detail;

• Buildings in the Silent Forest now correctly protect you from the Plague Wind;

• Adjusted how rocks spawn at the docks so they no longer have a visual pop-up;

• Corrected the height of trees and fixed collision issues at the Beach Plague;

• Added missing collisions to the Crematorium to prevent walking through walls;

• Tweaked the time of day in the menu for a fresh look when you start the game;

• We are working on adjusting the lighting in the game. For now we recommend setting the fog to around 30-50% (with 50% being more optimal) and adjust the brightness from there. There will be improvements to how lighting works in the later updates.

Economy & Gameplay Balance

• You can now build up to 15 chests in your base (increased from 5);

• Improved the usefulness and trade value of items sold by the Trader;

• Re-enabled several random events in the North Plains (First Island);

• Fixed a bug that prevented the Watchtower from being repaired and balanced several crafting recipes;

• You will no longer see a confusing "Unavailable" message when trying to loot certain bodies in multiplayer.

NPC Behavior

• Added a respawn cooldown to peasant cages;

• Fixed a bug where peasants would restart their crying audio every time you walked away and came back;

• Apothecary villagers have had a visual update to better fit their role;

• Peasants will now correctly put away their torches when they start working or interacting with you.

Demo

• We've updated the demo version of the game to match the current Early Access build. The length of the demo is the same.

UI & Technical Fixes

• Fixed a flickering issue that happened when hovering over items in the build menu at certain resolutions;

• Improved the collision on Stick Fences;

• Adjusted the first plague area to make interactions more consistent;

• Updated all localisations with fixes to item names and descriptions.

Thanks for the feedback! There are more fixes and improvements in the works - we will be updating the Early Access regularly.

Enjoy playing!

Hello, survivors!

Thanks for your feedback and suggestions. The new update brings improvements to item decay systems, online multiplayer stability and improved visual quality of some game elements.

Multiplayer & Networking

• Discovery Sync: Fixed inconsistent Point of Interest discovery logic between Hosts and Clients. The discovery system has been simplified to ensure all players in a session see the same progress.

• Animal Areas: Resolved an issue where certain animal areas were not being correctly discovered on the map.

Economy & Resource Systems

• Item Decay Rework: Removed duplicate decay components from storage chests.

  The system now handles all default decay times at the same time, specifically for meal items, rather than individual components managing their own timers.

• Loot & Crops: Added Cotton Seeds and Wheat to North Plains loot. Now you can grow your own cotton and wheat after you find some seeds.

• Building Balance: Performed general balance adjustments to building requirements and durability.

World & Exploration

• Trader Events: To make the Trader easier to find, events will now always appear at two fixed locations - one per island.

• Environment: Improved the overall setup and quality selection for Ocean rendering.

  • Adjusted the collision for rocks on the left side of the Coastal Tower to prevent you from getting stuck in the terrain.

• Visuals: Fixed an issue where the fog during a Plague Wind would become too harsh, making navigation nearly impossible.

Player & NPC Mechanics

• Added additional safety checks to player movement to prevent characters from getting stuck in narrow or complex geometry.

• NPCs:

  • Increased the detection range for Guards to make stealth more challenging.

  • Adjusted the Villager gender spawn ratio to ensure a more even distribution between male and female NPCs.

• Camera & UI: Fixed a bug that allowed the camera to continue moving after the Raid Video Tutorial popup appeared at the Blacksmith station.

• Improved the Main Menu layout to better support Ultra-Wide monitors.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue where specific Points of Interest would fail to trigger discovery labels.

• Fixed an interaction bug with the Blacksmith craft station during tutorial.

• Did some file clean-up for better performance.

Dear survivors,

Thanks for your feedback.

This update is driven by player community feedback, focusing on fixing the custom difficulty settings, stabilizing raid transitions in multiplayer, and balancing survival resources. We have also addressed several visual bugs and improved general character systems.

1. Multiplayer & Raids

We have improved the reliability of the Raid system, especially for players joining as clients.

● Raid Stability: Fixed an issue where raids would occasionally fail to start due to specific network environments.

● Save Data Fixes: * Resolved a bug where clients in saved games would not see the raid countdown timer.

○ Raid quest data now correctly resets upon completion to ensure the next event triggers properly.

○ Fixed invalid saved data related to raid quests that could prevent progression.

● Traversal: Fixed a bug where players could become stuck in the environment after teleporting between islands.

2. Gameplay & Balance

● Food & Recipes: * Significant balance pass on food items and existing recipes.

○ Added new recipes to the Campfire and Cookhouse.

○ Updated wording in the UI: changed the prompt "Get" to "Take" for better clarity.

● Systems: * Improved the logic for the sleeping and player statistics systems for better consistency.

● Interaction: Improved the interaction collider for the Wash Tub Basin, making it easier to use.

● Plague Mechanics: Added a "safe check" to prevent plague events from triggering while a player is still loading into an island.

3. Settings & UI

● Custom Difficulty: * Fixed the logic for how custom settings apply data to resolve several player-reported issues.

○ Fixed non-functional buttons on various custom difficulty sliders.

● Field of View (FOV): Resolved an issue where players were unable to click the interaction buttons on the FOV slider.

● UI Stability: * Fixed a game-breaking bug where opening the Bug Report window while a Tutorial popup was active would freeze the UI.

○ Removed the shadow effect from the main player HUD for a cleaner look.

4. Graphics & Visuals

● Lighting: * Adjusted lighting intensity to be less overwhelming during and after noon.

○ Fixed a bug where the game would occasionally start with the wrong time of day.

○ Note: We have reverted a specific set of experimental graphics improvements to ensure better stability across different hardware configurations.

● Assets: * Fixed an issue where certain items would appear with a completely black material.

○ Improved the camera's collision angle to prevent it from clipping through walls or terrain.

○ Updated Plague visual effects (VFX) to match the latest graphical standards.

● Plague Fog: Decreased fog effect to make it better for lighting visuals;

● Foggy Weather: foggy was too strong, fixed now;

5. NPC & World Sync

● Peasant Cages: * Synchronized the opening of interactable cages across multiplayer sessions.

○ Added synchronization for the audio and visuals of peasants crying inside cages.

○ Fixed a technical exception error that occurred on client machines when opening a cage.

● Infected NPCs: Improved the spawn logic and visual effects for infected encounters.

We hope you will like the changes.

Hello, survivors! This update introduces a suite of custom game settings and difficulty options, a significant overhaul of the lighting and day/night cycle, and the addition of the Copper Pickaxe. We have also addressed several critical inventory bugs and refined player animations.

1. Customization & Difficulty Options

• Custom Difficulty UI: A new interface for adjusting game difficulty and world parameters.

• World Settings: Players can now customize the length of both day and night independently.

• Character Creation: Added many new custom options during the initial character creation process, including a fix to ensure the male toggle is correctly selected by default.

• Field of View (FOV): Added a slider to adjust the camera's Field of View in the settings menu.

2. Visuals, Lighting & Rendering

• Lighting & HDRP: Improved brightness and light intensity across all scenes.

• Day/Night Cycle: The default 24-hour cycle is now 45 minutes long.

• Adjusted the cycle so daylight lasts longer and nights are brighter for better visibility.

• Environment: Fixed an issue where rocks near the Coastal Pass would occasionally disappear.

3. New Content & Items

• Copper Pickaxe: A new tier of harvesting tool has been added.

• Inventory Safety: Fixed a critical bug where items retrieved from crafting stations would disappear if the player's inventory was full.

• Players now receive a "Toast" notification when attempting to collect items with a full inventory.

• Tooltips: Accessory items now correctly display their localized item type in tooltips.

4. Player Mechanics & Animations

• Stats & Energy: Improved the internal logic for how player stats (Health, Energy, etc.) are consumed and recovered. The UI for reading these stats has also been refined for better clarity.

• Spear Refinement: Improved Spear animation transitions.

• Fixed a technical issue with "Left Hand IK" (Inverse Kinematics) where the hand would snap unnaturally while aiming the spear.

• Locomotion: Added a cooldown between footstep sounds to prevent audio overlapping during rapid movement.

5. NPC & Villager Improvements

• Villager Logic: Fixed "Empty Status" bugs for villagers resting in the Tavern or eating at tables.

• Resolved an issue where villagers would fail to perform specific sub-activities while eating.

• Peasant Cages: Adjusted the top collision of peasant cages to prevent players from getting stuck in the air.

• Added missing voice-over phrasers (female) for peasants and fixed missing dialogue in "Cage" random events.

• Enemy Behavior: Moved enemy idle points at Refugee Camps for better positioning.

6. Audio & Technical Fixes

• Audio Sources: Corrected the output and placement of audio sources in the Silent Forest and North Plains.

• Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an error related to a non-existent "Crossbow" recipe.

• Resolved a bug where the Raid video tutorial description was cut off.

• Resolved a bug where the Raid didn't start in COOP. If the timer is not there, please wait till 11 am, and the raid will begin.

• Fixed the Credits window formatting.

• Multiplayer Sync: fixed an issue with the inventory after a crafting process is completed.

We are extremely grateful for your feedback! We are set on polishing the game during the Early Access release to provide you with the smoothest experience possible.

Thank you for your incredible support, Survivors.

We’re a small team, but we’re reading every message, report, and suggestion you send to us. Your feedback is helping us shape Norovellir, and we appreciate it more than we can express.

Right now, we’re actively going through all the comments from launch — and tomorrow we’ll be releasing a hotfix with several small QoL improvements requested by many of you.

Our goal is to build a strong, trustworthy community and to update the game regularly with fixes, improvements, and new content.

If you’d like to help us grow and improve, we’d love to hear your thoughts in our Discord —and in the dedicated feedback thread we’ll be pinning in Discussions on Steam.

Thank you for surviving with us. This is only the beginning.

Nested Lands has officially entered Early Access on Steam!

Explore Norovellir alone or with friends, build and manage your village, meet curious characters, face dangerous encounters, and survive the Plague together.

What awaits you in EA:

-Co-op from day one;

-Village building & management;

-Unique encounters, events, and NPCs;

-15+ hours of gameplay in the current version.

This is only the beginning — your feedback will help shape the future of Norovellir.

See you in the wilds.

Survivors, the gates are closing.

The Nested Lands Playtest ends today. Thank you to everyone who braved through the Plague, faced the harsh nights, and helped us shape the future of Norovellir.

But your journey doesn’t end here — you’ll still be able to explore the world through our Demo, available to all on the main game page.

Moreover, Early Access is just around the corner. Stay vigilant. The plagued wastelands are waiting. Don't forget to wishlist the game and see you soon.

Hello, survivors!

The second update for the Playtest is live! It brings updates to player movement responsiveness, stabilizes multiplayer synchronization, adds some of the QoLs that you have asked us for and improves the overall gameplay along with the bugfixes. 

Here is what has changed:

The Plague creeps across Norovellir… but four survivors will get a chance to face it early.

We’re giving away 6 Early Access keys for Nested Lands on our official Discord.

👉 Join the giveaway here:

https://discord.com/channels/1164554956548874301/1168309000559927356/1473340220727492739 

(Instructions are posted on the server.)

Enter, drop your offering, and see if the Plague favors you.

Good luck, Survivors — the night is not kind.

Hello, survivors!

The very first update for the Playtest is live! It brings updates to player movement responsiveness, stabilizes multiplayer loot synchronization, and introduces new biological mechanics for immersion. 

Here is what has changed:

Movement & Camera Overhaul

We have adjusted the core movement mechanics to feel faster, more responsive, and fluid. Player movement is now faster with improved animation transition times, making control feel snappier and less weighty. Also, some adjustments were made to the camera behavior to complement the new movement speed.

Multiplayer & Stability

• We have addressed critical desync issues with loot and lobby connections.

• Fixed a major issue where Bandits would drop different loot for the Host and Clients.

• Dead NPC inventories are now fully synced.

• Interaction Locking: Implemented a check to block other players from interacting with a corpse while another player is already looting it.

• Connection Stability: Resolved all known issues regarding Lobby Room connections and "ghost" players appearing in sessions.

Gameplay

• Bonfires and campfires that appear in random events now provide heat and light as well.

• Increased the attack range of arrows. We’ve also optimised how arrows work in-game, so they don’t eat as much performance. 

• Fixed an issue where only the host could perform stealth kills in co-op.

• Fixed an issue where the screen would freeze on Balder after completing a villager request.

• Also, try holding "U" button when your hygiene level is not full - something interesting is bound to happen.

Other

• Streamer Mode now correctly disables the music slider to prevent DMCA issues.

• Fixed an issue where multiple players could sleep in the same house bed simultaneously.

• Fixed a bug where "Unhappy Villager" notifications would trigger even when villagers were happy.

• Temporarily disabled the 4x4 Garden Bed due to network restrictions and lags. We might remove it entirely, as it is rarely used.

• Improved slider configurations in audio options.

• Added missing languages: French, German and Spanish.

• Fixed a bug where players would remain in the "swimming" state after exiting water in the Silent Forest.

We are extremely grateful for your feedback! We are set on polishing the game before the Early Access release to provide you the smoothest experience possible.

Thank you and enjoy playing!