Subsistence news & patch notes

New Hunter Combat AI:

Hunters have had an overhaul of their combat AI. Previously they used a fairly predictable pattern of move/stop/shoot. Now they can shoot while moving, will strafe while engaging, use better logic for positioning and taking cover. While also being aware of the actions of the other members of their squad.

They will also use tactics like diving from cover, switch weapons less often, while choosing weapons based on the current situation. They also use smarter logic for choosing when to reload and will retreat to do so when they can.

New Animation System for Humans:

The male and female characters (including hunters) have had an entirely new animation tree for movement. Compared to the previous (built in a time where I was still learning the basics of bipedal animation), the new movement should look much more convincing and immersive.

I'm sure I will want to continue to improve these in future updates (I know there is still some 'jankiness' there).

Context-based Death Animations:

Previously, when humans were killed, they would just snap to ragdoll and allowed for the physics to play out. Now there is an entire suite of death animations, that can blend into ragdolls.

These animations are entirely contextual, based on the force of the impact, the location on the body and the type of ammunition used.

In addition, these death sequences are now fully replicated to clients of network games. Whereas previously, the momentum, impact location, and damage type was not received from the server, resulting in clients not seeing the correct death simulation that the host (or single player) would see.

Extreme Violence/Gore and Dismemberment:

Firstly I should mention that this option can be disabled in the in-game options menu. So for players who do not want this in their game, I totally understand.

Dismemberment:

The update introduces a new dismemberment system, allowing human characters to be blown apart. The feature is designed to emphasize the raw power of weapons, the impact of combat, and the brutality of survival in the world. \.

Dismemberment is determined by the types of ammunition (or damage), the range (in terms of weapons like shotguns), and obviously hit location.

I may tweak the system to occur less frequently, so I appreciate any feedback. 🙏

Some scenarios that can cause dismemberment include: high caliber ammunition and close-range shotgun blasts, powerful animal attacks, high-speed vehicle impacts, falling from extreme heights.

New Blood Effects:

Previously the blood effects I was using were just 2D cards in a particle system. It never looked right, and also had no direction in the spurts. Now I am using 3D simulations for the blood spurts, which look way better and also will spurt in the appropriate direction. I think this is way more convincing and immersive.

Dynamic Damage Decals:

It is always immersion-breaking for me when I play a game and no visible damage displays on enemies during battles. Previously I would display static blood, baked within the materials (which I still do), but now I have a system to project real time damage decals onto the moving meshes. This is for human characters and animals.

Again, this can be disabled in the options menu ("Show graphic violence").

The types of decals are determined by the damage. For instance, bullet wound will appear as bullet holes, whereas bear attacks will leave large scratch marks.

The damage decals will also spurt blood for a short period of time.

Blood Pooling:

Killed humans (depending on the cause of death) will now cause slowly growing blood pools when their bodies come to rest.

Take-Damage Impact Animations and Stuns:

Previously when hunters would take damage during combat, there was zero reaction. Now there are minor and major hit reactions.

Minor hit reactions simply jolt their bodies. Major hit reactions will stun the hunters and play out contextual animations based on the damage type and body location.

There are many, many animations for the various hit locations. Including stumbling if hit while running, grabbing their legs, head, groin, etc. The stun time may need some tweaking, but I will wait to see feedback and watch gameplay.

Increased Bullet Velocity:

Bullet velocity for all weapons (other than bows) has been increased by 1.5x. While this seems like a small change, it dramatically changes how combat feels. The hunter AI needed tweaking to balance this change to keep their accuracy at the same level of handicap.

Proximity Voice Chat:

Finally I've implemented proximity-based voice chat for multiplayer. This means when you approach a player in a multiplayer game, you can press a key to broadcast your voice to them.

The volume of the remote voices can be configured in the "Sounds" section of the options menu and the "Push to Talk" key can be rebound in the controls menu.

When A player is speaking, you will see a small speaker icon show next to their health bar. When you are talking, the same icon will show just to the right of your toolbar.

I'm using the Steam Voice API for this feature, so whatever microphone that shows in your Steam client settings is the one the game will pickup from.

I hope this will broaden the social aspect for communities playing on servers.

Client-side Human and Animal Movement Smoothing:

I've added client-side movement smoothing when viewing other humans or animals. Previously this movement could get quite jerky and awkward looking (especially on a high ping). This prevents sudden snapping to a corrected position caused by network lag or lost packets.

This is predictive smoothing, so it's not just trailing behind where the human/animal is. It will smoothly move based on the velocity and direction the character is moving and should be very accurate to where the server has that character placed.

New Human Ragdoll Physics:

I've added a new physics body for humans. Previously the old ragdolls were prone to springing to a star shape with not much articulation restraints. The new ragdolls react much more realistically to the environment and forces.

In addition, I've adjusted the friction that ragdolls (including animals) so that bodies slow more quickly when sliding down slopes or impacting geometry.

Falling Sounds During Deaths:

Previously humans made no sound when slumping to the floor when killed. This was immersion-breaking, so now there is satisfying and reassuring audio.

Facial Animations:

Hunters and players will now play subtle facial animations. Mostly during combat. Firing weapons will blend a gritting-teeth snarl, while taking major hits will cause a pain expression. (I had to give the character teeth for this...)

Smoothed Camera Tracking During Death Ragdolls:

Previously when dying and ragdolling, the camera would track the root of the body. Which regularly led to jerky camera if the physics were caught on world geometry. This has now been smoothed out.

Throwing Weapon Physics On Death Visual Effect:

As a visual flair, humans will now fling their weapon spinning into the air when killed (depending on damage type). This is purely to add a satisfying visual cue and just looks cool in my opinion. The weapon cannot be picked up (will still be in the dropped bag for players).

Weapon Aiming Offset Animations:

Previously humans would have very limited visual vertical aiming offset when aiming their weapon up and down. This led to hunters aiming up at players, often appearing to be aiming much lower down, which felt very off. I've now adjusted the animation tree for all weapons to correctly aim where the human is aiming.

In addition, previously when strafing or turning, the animation of twisting the hips would cause the horizontal aiming to also look inaccurate. This is now corrected, so viewing humans aiming weapon should now be visually correct to their actual aim.

Additional Loot for Scrapping Crashed Planes:

Scrapping crashed plane wrecks will now yield additional loot (on top of the existing scrap metal). Alloy sheets and electrical components will be yielded for certain parts of the plane.

New Bullet Tracers:

Previously bullet tracers would instantly disappear when the projectile hit a surface, or when the tip of the tracer was out of view. Leading tracers to seemingly disappear or not even show.

The visual bounding box of the tracer is now the full length, and the tracer will complete it movement after the bullet has hit a surface. This should give players a lot more situational awareness when under fire.

Fish Traps No Longer Penalized by Nearby Players:

Previously fish traps would prevent catching fish if players were moving and making noise near them. I have removed this constraint, so fish traps near bases will now be more productive.

Please note that placing fish traps too close to one another will limit their combined potential, so spacing them out is recommended.

Improved Physics on Animal Fatality Sequences:

I've fixed the physics when an animal grabs/impales a human. Previously the human could spin around at the grab location.

Now the player will be locked in place which looks much more convincing (and brutal).

Higher Detail Ground Debris:

The world now has a lot more ground debris, in the form of sticks and stones. I think the change makes for a more immersive setting, while requiring the player to be more focused for identifying harvestable resources. I welcome feedback on this change.

The new ground debris will also react to seasonal changes, so snow will accumulate on them.

Foundations Now Require At Least One Leg Touching the Ground (unless snapped):

This prevents building floating platforms, at least without an initial snap to another buildable.

Dead Players/Hunters Now Close Their Eyes:

Rather than just statically staring blankly after killing a human, they will now close their eyes on death. It's a small change but corrects an immersion-breaking visual during/after combat.

Bullet Impact Decals:

Bullets and shotgun shells will now leave impact decals on surfaces.

Plantbeds Now Require Both Water and Fertilizer to Grow Plants:

Previously plants would still grow in plantbeds with only water (although at a slower pace). Now fertilizer is also required, otherwise the growth will stop. Water will not be consumed if no fertilizer is present.

Other Notable Changes:

• Player characters will now blink.

• Melee weapons now deliver momentum when killing an enemy.

• Fixed power exploit, whereby cancelled crafted item on an upgraded station would refund the full power cost of the item (rather than the discounted amount).

• Prevented double binding of keys in the controls menu.

• Fixed bug where hunters could spam grenade tipped arrows while attacking a base.

• Giving the middle-finger will also show an angry facial expression.

• Hunters now immediately enter a defending base state when their base is breached.

• Animals will now wait to face the player before performing attacks.

• Fixed bug where predators would not attack players when running on to player bases.

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Hosting Your Own Server:

If you would like to host your own dedicated server, I would recommend Nitrado (as I work closely with their team to support the game). You are also free to host on your own hardware, and the server files are freely available on SteamCMD. You can view a detailed guide to hosting here: Continued Translation Support Credits (in no particular order): Thank you so much for the support. Spanish (David Lascasas, MusicMan) Hungarian (Erb Ármin) Portuguese BR (Thiago Schumacke) Portuguese European (João C. H. Jorge) German (Philipp J. Rackl (LPCaiser)) Italian (Marcello Brancaccio, Federico D. Ravagli) French (Anthony Charrault) Czech (Dílna U mnicha) Dutch (Damster_NL) Danish (Jesper Vestergaard Bæk) Russian (FRAME) Turkish (Soulkast, Çagla Gurbet) Swedish (Mattias Gustavsson) Norwegian (Christer Djuvik, Svein Tore Stegemoen) Romanian (VaeVictis) Estonian (Streamerize) Polish (Robertus Lubin) Ukrainian (RoW-Team) Latvian (Martins Plucis) Finnish (Pewtsku and J4ntteri)

Cable Car System:

Cable Car Platform:

Platform Radius Map View:

Identify Platforms On the Map:

Cable Car:

Red 9 Pistol:

Steel Cable:

Fallen Logs:

Weapon Sway and ADS/Hip-fire Accuracy:

New Muzzle Flashes and Bullet/Shell Casing Ejection:

Glass Triangle Ceiling:

Glass Wall (Curve/Slanted/Inverted):

New Red 9 Achievement:

Mass Fabricator Production Increased:

Vehicle Construction Cost Reduced:

Many Craft Recipes Cost Reduced:

• Boiling, frying and baking pans all substantially reduced in cost.
• Advanced Mechanical Parts.
• Lever Action Rifle.
• Recurve Bow.
• Double Barrel Shotgun.
• Elevator Tracks (reduced by 50%).

Fixed Save Games During Climbing:

Animal/Hunter/Player Rotation Movement Smoothed for Network Games:

Red 9 Skins:

Other Notable Changes:

• Fixed bug where glyphs would sometimes not show in the control bindings menu.
• Fixed bug where crayfish would temporarily disappear while cooking.
• Fixed some exploits of players being able to steal from sealed bases on multiplayer.
• Fixed the Steam Deck controller diagram not showing (was showing the generic diagram). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26620178/18c78a7911067b8dcbc54b52bf69fb5a636a970b.png
• Fixed weapon equipping sound playing multiple times for clients of network games.
• Fixed weapon reloading animation often not playing on hunters and other players for clients of network games.
• Fixed hunters not being able to fish on dedicated servers. Surprisingly this was never reported, but hunters have never been able to actually cast their rod on dedicated servers. They would only walk to the water with their rod and eventually return to their base.
• Fixed bear head-crush animation not playing for clients of network games.

Hosting Your Own Server:

Controller Support:

• In-Game
• Menu
• Driving

Reconfiguring Bindings:

Steam Input:

If you have an existing Steam Input control scheme for Subsistence:

Keyboard/Mouse/Controller Glyphs:

Build Animations:

Customizable ADS Sensitivity:

• When the slider is at full, this means the ADS sensitivity will be the same are normal look sensitivity.
• When the slider is at the lowest, the ADS will be 10% of the normal look sensitivity.

All New Controls Menu:

Inventory Item Animations:

Reset to Default Controls:

Inventory Input Prompts:

In-Game Input Prompts:

New Toolbelt Selecting:

New (Animated) Navigation Menu:

Breath Sounds When Exhausted (+ Fixed Sprinting Animation Bug):

Quick Craft Hotkey:

GeForce Now?

Other Notable Changes:

• Claymores, Breaching Charges and BCU Crackers are now stackable.
• Fixed vehicle falling through the vehicle bay when recalling vehicle.
• Prevented canteens filled with dirty water being drank from when using the quick action hotkey (shift+left-click). This should prevent accidental infection.
• Fixed Garage Door not colliding with vehicle (missed bug in Alpha 63).
• Subtle camera animations will now play during the process of butchering animals.

Thank You 🙏

Hosting Your Own Server:

Base Furniture:

All New Trees:

Regional Ore/Mineral Mining (Drilling):

Stored Mining Progress:

Reduced Cost of Wood Building:

New Wind Foliage Effects:

Furniture Workbench:

Coal Tar:

Wood Varnish:

Health Kit Speed:

Crafting Tier Unlocks:

Offline Base Protection:

How it works:

• Base items within range of a BCU or Range Extender will not take any damage when all of it's members are offline from the server.
• There is a 10 minute cooldown after the last base member logs off before the base protection takes effect.
• BCU Crackers and Breaching Charges cannot be used on a base while offline-protection is in effect for that base.

Corpses Impact Effects:

Reduced Cost of Solar Panels and Windmills:

Reduced Cost of Large Storage Unit

Improved Rendering On Roof Tiling:

Fixed Vehicles & Corpses Falling Through Floors:

LOD Overhaul:

Fixed Player Positioning While Unseating:

Rotating World Globe Decoration Item:

Bush Collision Now Enabled Worldwide:

Recurve Bow Predator Skin:

Other Notable Updates:

• Windmill turning animation is now rendered using only the material renderer (rather than ticking a mesh). This leads to greater CPU performance when many windmills are rendered on screen.
• Fixed dropped kit beacon not showing if killed while driving a vehicle. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26620178/b0bf9a55f769649620bb70e78bd07063ac6fa49e.png
• Improved snow rendering on distant trees.
• Fixed bug where potato plants would render as white at a certain distance.
• Fixed health bars or plane debris not showing for clients of multiplayer games.
• Hunters will engage/fire at longer range when using rifles and the revolver.
• Hunters better trained at using the lever-action rifle.
• Fixed crash that would occur if an animal was killed by the resulting explosion of attacking a vehicle.
• Hunter AI updated to prevent/reduce them losing sights on the player when the player enters water.
• Fixed bug where it was not possible to open plane cargo crates if they were under a river surface. (Released in previous hotfix).
• Increased max health to garage door. You may notice existing garage doors (prior to Alpha 63) are below full health because of this change.
• Reduced cost of old sofa and arm-chair.

Hosting Your Own Server:

Random Plane Events:

Flight Paths:

Crash Sites:

Pilots:

Crash Site Looting:

Regions:

Huge Increase To Fiber/Medicinal Foliage:

Foliage Harvesting Physics:

Electrical Bench:

Capacitors:

Semiconductors:

New Ore/Mineral Types:

Lithium:

Silicon:

Obsidian:

Color Grading Overhaul (Graphics Update):

First Person Arm Grabbing:

Hunter AI Updates:

Tightened Spread on Pump Action and Double Barrel Shotguns:

Harvested Foliage and Scrap Regrowth/Respawn Rate:

Garage Door Fob Fix:

Boost Packs Duration Increase:

• Strength Boost (Increases physical strength for a period of time. Allows resources to be harvested at a faster rate and increases damage dealt by melee weapons). Increased from 3 mins to 6 mins.
• Adrenaline Boost (provides unlimited stamina for a period of time). Increased from 3 mins to 6 mins.
• Heat Pack (Provides a short period of warmth). Increased from 2 mins to 3 mins.

New Skins:

Other Notable Changes:

• Optimized save game logic. Save files now are faster and use around half the file size.
• Fiber stack count increased to 1000.
• Medicinal stack count increased to 500.
• Added shadow casting for destroyed buildable fracture pieces and destroyed ore nodes.
• Prevented bushes and foliage from blocking AI navigation calculations and pathing.
• Fixed rare bug where players would get stuck on "Initializing World..." screen when loading a profile.
• Added better handling to ensure loot, hunters and hunter bases can not spawn outside of the fence-line.
• Fix bug where the player camera would still move while in the menu if entering the menu while transitioning out of the map view.
• Reduced the requirement count for circuit board for several craft and upgrade recipes.

Hosting Your Own Server:

Water Tank and Pumps:

Inflow and Outflow:

Pumps:

Irrigation Parts Crafting:

Water Intake Pipe:

Water Pipes:

Faucet:

Water Sprinklers:

Sprinkler Automation:

Achievements:

Wolf Hunter (Novice/Intermediate/Master)

Bear Hunter (Novice/Intermediate/Master)

Cougar Hunter (Novice/Intermediate/Master)

Deer Hunter (Novice/Intermediate/Master)

Moose Hunter (Novice/Intermediate/Master)

LumberJack:

Fiber Forager:

Establish A Base

Bowmasters' Bullseye:

Weapon Service Stars:

Loot Locksmith:

Sickness Slayer:

Cuisine Connoisseur:

Ultimate Vitality & Stamina Legend:

Deep Dive Discovery:

Buzzworthy Bounty:

Double Impact:

Molten Depths:

Fisherman Pro:

Frosty Fisherman:

Nest Raider:

Flying High:

Fortress Breacher:

Base Cracker:

ATV Mechanic:

Base Resource Monitor:

Crafting Using Storage:

Weapon Recoil:

Take-All Quick Action:

Base and Dropped-kit HUD Markers Distance (and countdown timer):

Fill All Canteens Quick Action:

Stackable Buildables:

.44 Caliber Incendiary Rounds:

Metal Pipes

Code Execution Job Queue (Performance):

World Initialization:

In-Game Achievement Tracker:

Weapon Ammo Type Display:

Double Barrel Shotgun Predator Skin:

Lever Action Rifle Predator Skin:

Revolver Predator Skin:

Hosting Your Own Server:

Vehicle Construction Bay:

Vehicle Construction:

ATV:

First and third person view:

Manual transmission:

Battery power and headlights:

Players thrown from vehicle:

Vehicle access permissions:

Black Crystal:

Advanced Mechanical Parts:

Heavy Bolts:

Vehicle Docking:

Vehicle Recall:

Garage Door:

Garage Ramp:

Garage Door Fob:

Vehicle Damage System:

Vehicle Repair:

Vehicle Battery:

Vehicle Jump Kit:

Vehicle Custom Paint:

Vehicle Fuel:

Vehicle attachments?

Map Icons for Vehicles:

Reduced food decay for trap bait:

Reduced decay for eggs in animal housing:

Reduced/muffled river/waterfall noise while inside an enclosed base.

Hunter base locations:

New UI dropdown menus:

Fixed shaky aim-down-sights:

PVP damage to vehicles?

Dedicated server dormant vehicles:

New server admin console commands:

New clothing skins:

New weapons and vehicle skins:

Oher Notable Changes:

• Fixed craft queue sometimes not showing for clients when accessing an external crafting station (like BCU, workbench, lathe, etc).
• Fixed bleeding icon sometimes not disappearing for clients of network games, after bleeding had stopped (finally..).
• Using jarred food to feed animals in the animal housing will now return the empty jar.
• Weapon/clothing/vehicle cosmetics (skins) can now be accessed in the Steam Store from within the game. Mousing over the skin icon will show a button to open the skin in the Steam Store. If purchased, the game will update your ownership (without having to close and reopen the game). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26620178/efa3a9abdbdd9affe905fd20c53d4751f050f8fd.png
• Rotating buildables now allows for 8 points of rotation (rather than 4).
• Fixed exploit that allowed players on servers to name their base to be an empty string to hide the hud icon from other players when they were in range.
• Fixed bug where weapons and clothing would repair if save was made and loaded while on less than 1% health.
• Fixed hunter base placements sometimes building partially through the ground, causing outside ground clipping through the ground floor.
• Fixed lakes still having collision for ragdolling animals and humans after the lake had thawed from frozen.
• Fixed BCU not showing as being accessed when another player is using it for clients of network games.
• Fixed small animals not showing injured animation and sounds when injured (previously they always showed as dead).
• Allowed max health and stamina progress bars to fill an extra bar after reaching the max of 125. This prevents the hud notice showing too frequently each time we eat after dropping slightly from max. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26620178/25b4900c20dc2c08cc773a357c401564a647b641.png
• Fixed freecam sometimes not teleporting to desired/correct location for server admins.

Hosting Your Own Server:

New Trees:

Cave Access?

New Landscape Rock Geometry:

Triangular Building Pieces:

Fruit/Veg Will Now Perish!

• Items will perish one at a time from a stack.
• Splitting the stack would result in both stacks continuing from the same perish state.
• Adding an item (or stack) to a stack will result in the stack acquiring whichever had the lower perish state.

Vegetable Chutney:

Dropped Kit Expiry Time Increased:

Increased Shadow Distance:

New Cosmetics:

Winter Jacket Snow Camo and Shirt Woodland Camo:

Revolver Nickel Plating and Black Grip:

Rifle Black Camo and Gold Trim:

New Language Supported - Finnish:

Other Notable Fixes:

• Increased FOV to 100 (previously 95). I will add ability to customize this in the future.
• Added culling for distant landscape, reducing a lot of draw calls (better FPS performance).
• Increased number of beehives during the summer months.
• Greatly reduced noticeable texture seams for snowy terrain on the landscape.
• Attempted to resolve reported bug of river sounds cutting out audio.
• Changed campfire repair recipe to only require sticks.
• Fixed compass showing during loading screen.

New Trailer:

Hosting Your Own Server:

Eagles:

Eagle Nests:

Hang Gliders:

Piloting Controls:

Landing:

New Hunter Bases:

Big Performance/Lag Improvements at Scale:

Increased Mountain Rock Geometric Detail:

Big Increase To Server Build Cap:

Dedicated Server Remote API:

Physics Based Butcher Animations:

Fixed Animal Corpses Disappearing in MP Games:

Dormant Bases While Base Members Offline:

Glass Wall Half (Vertical, Slanted):

Animated Models For Dropped Fish:

Christmas Tree:

Weapon/Clothing/Item Cosmetics:

Added In-Game Tip for Chopping Ice Holes:

Cave Entrances Now Show On The Map:

Other notable changes:

• Firearm handling sounds have been increased in volume and expanded. Now as the player breaks into a sprint and draws the weapon in/out, sounds will play accordingly. I think makes the weapons feel more weighty and immersive.
• Passwords will now save when joining servers, and be auto-populated when rejoining from the server list.
• Fixed incorrect curved window snapping location. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26620178/a95a8bcc6baefc7ab837752e08442c5d8b78da21.png
• Fixed scrollbars in all menus not scaling correctly to the length of the content within the scrollable window.
• The full alpha version will now show top left while in the menu (previous the decimals were omitted). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26620178/db9b4dc34716c7531dde838d4eaf033bcaff8a68.png
• If trying to join a server running a different version, the error message will now detail the exact version differences (rather than a generic error). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26620178/43eec79ec28dd375ea29896d27db0b9e42a75381.png
• Fixed bug where flashlight would continue to drain its battery if removed from a weapon while turned on.
• Passwords for previously joined servers will now save (so you don't have to re-enter each time you join). Unfortunately still not for co-op games.
• Fixed bug where movement controls could still remain active while in map view.
• Replaced unfocalized loading screen with simple loading icon instead.
• Fixed audio bug where fire/generator/cooking/etc sounds would not play in heavily populated worlds.
• Fixed bug where elevator switch would not call the elevator if the elevator was over 100 floors away. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26620178/3a0c01a071e0e2a10babf351ebdd9ccf7430f72d.png
• Fixed bug where hunter woodburners would not decay with the rest of their base after being destroyed by a BCU Cracker.
• Fixed animals sometimes playing their idle animations while walking for clients.
• Fixed mining drill progress meter not updating in real-time for clients.
• Fixed sandstone ore nodes not aligning correctly to the surface that are spawned on.
• Attempted to fix the random crash while accessing solar panels or wind turbines. I believe this is resolved, but haven't 100% confirmed yet.
• Fixed server name not showing in the server stats hud for clients.
• Fixed certain sounds not playing while in freecam mode (such as gunshots). Some sounds are still not working, but I will get to those in the future (freecam is lower priority as only affects admins).
• Fixed smoke from breaching charge not rendering for clients.
• Added many low poly LOD meshes for player models and clothing (performance benefit).
• Rugs, floodlights and switches have now been added to existing hunter bases.
• Fixed bug where rugs would protect the floor below from explosive damage.
• Fixed river sounds still playing after having frozen for the most southern river.

Hosting Your Own Server:

Migration to 64 Bit!

Executables:

Save file restructure for 64 bit:

New Deep-Cave Expansion:

Rock Climbing:

Accessing The New Caves:

Server Build Cap Doubled In Size:

Deep-Cave Hunters:

Gas Mask:

Overheating:

Deep-Cave Mining Crates:

Mixed Berry Jam:

Ore Node Impact and Crate Interaction Animations:

Joining Server Streaming Status Bar:

Fixed Getting Killed While Joining Server:

View Player Steam Profiles From The In-Game Player List:

New Death Screen Hud:

Global Ban List:

Plants Will No Longer Grow With No Water:

Fixed Awkward Cave Transition At NW Lake:

Increased O2 Tank Duration By Over 50%

Added Drop Shadows To Death Skull and Map Icons:

Hunter Glow Stick Colors:

Cloud Saves:

Fixed Some Hunter Weapon Handling Glitches:

Additional Admin Features:

• Added ability to teleport directly to a base via console command: TeleportToBase
• Dedicated server admins can now inspect buildables to check how long until the buildable will start to decay. This will also list how long the player who placed it (or a member of their base) was last online. Simply look at the buildable and enter the console command (also works in freecam mode): InspectBuildable
• Dedicated server admins can now open the Steam profile of the player that placed any buildable. Simply look at the buildable and use the following console command (also works in freecam mode): ViewSteamProfileOfPlayerWhoPlacedBuildable {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26620178/1a453ce0c0a2e2865a8d4ecb98ff32ba5fd25962.png
• Added ability to disable clipping while in freecam mode (console command while already in freecam mode): NoClipFreeCam
• Base names (that show at bottom right in the hud) will now update while in freecam mode.
• The ListBases admin command will now also report on the time since a base member was last online (playing on the server). ListBases
• Fixed bug where admins couldn't see ore nodes in the caves while in freecam mode.

Structural Integrity???

New Languages Supported:

• Ukrainian
• Latvian

Other Notable Changes:

• Added ultra-high-rez rock materials to cave rock, which blends in at close proximity.
• Added localized messages for connection errors while attempting to join servers.
• Fixed player shadow casting bug introduced in Alpha 56 (causing overly black shadows on players while in base lighting).
• Fixed "Rent a Server" button not opening the Steam overlay on some computers.
• Updated silver birch trees bark texture (credit to Gael Romanet for donating these textures, project Dismal).
• Fixed bug where stack of perishable food item stacks would disappear when using shift-rightClick to split individual items (while in the default inventory).
• Fixed bug where phantom fish could persist in the water with no fishing player or hunter.
• Fixed clients hearing the fishing float "plop" sound a second time when starting to reel in a fish.

Hosting Your Own Server:

Lever-Action Rifle:

Moonlit Nights and Moon Cycles:

Physics Based Base Destruction:

Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights):

Big Performance Overall:

Distant lights optimization: (dev details)

• Many of these lights may be extremely far from the player to be barely visible, yet still use their same quota of GPU performance.
• There may be many lights in close proximity to one another, yet be so far from the player view they only occupy a tiny fraction of screen space (such as a base with 20 lights in the far distance).
• Lights would still render, even if they are muted-out by much brighter lights (such as midday sunlight).

• Far distant lights (in close proximity to one another) will now cluster into a single source (reducing the expense of ray casting and overlapping cascades).
• Lights that are overpowered by another light (meaning they would not be visible anyway) are now disabled.
• Lights that are entirely outside of the current view are disabled completely.

Putting buildables to "sleep": (dev details)

Plaid Shirt:

First Person Clothing Modeling:

Multiplayer Exploit Fixes:

Cracking Bases:

Speedhack prevention:

Fly-hack exploit patched:

Ban players by Steam ids:

Phosphate Ore and Phosphorus:

Incendiary Rifle Rounds

Shift-RightClick To Split Item Stacks:

Fixed Incorrect Warmth %:

Strength Boost:

Adrenaline Boost:

Added Additional In-Game Tips:

Filling Canteens and Washing Hands From Ice Holes:

Structural Integrity (work-in-progress, not enabled in update):

Fixed Elevator Bug:

Delay Entering World Until Fully Streamed/Initialized:

Flashlight Battery Duration Extended:

Other Notable Changes:

• Switched to new metallic materials for Double Barrel Shotgun Rifle.
• Added weapon handling sounds when raising/lowering weapons to aim down sights.
• Fixed ice hole clipping bug, that could result in falling under the world.
• Fixed bug where players couldn't cancel and exit out of chat while sitting on ground or in a chair.
• Fixed fishing line showing at weird angle if starting to fish while in 3rd person view.
• Fixed character standing at weird angle if switching view while exiting an ice hole (thanks Freaky P ;))
• Windows will now be destroyed if their wall frames are destroyed. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26620178/371c8897c923915dfd559579e82a43a19e981b8b.png
• Fixed various buildable's pitch and roll not replicating to clients of net games.
• Fixed bug where two weapons would show mounted in the work bench (one below the bench) for clients of net games.
• Fixed animation glitch where players could sit while in a falling state.
• Fixed clipping bug where players could glitch through geometry while sitting on sofas (sometimes leading to falling to their death).
• Inventory item blue highlight flash will now interrupt a previous flash, so feels much more responsive when splitting/transfering items in quick succession.
• Log files now capture when admins ban players.
• Fixed bug where dedicated servers could get into a restart loop, and machine needing resetting to fix the issue. This was caused by the server attempting to compile shaders (which it never needs anyway).
• For humans and animals on fire, the fire particle will now remain attached during ragdolling (previously would float at the death location).

Hosting Your Own Server:

Ice Fishing:

Ice Holes and Winter Cave/Water Access:

Beehives and Honey:

Bee Swarms:

Catfish:

Pike:

Perch:

Small animals now destroyed by live ammunition:

Curved, slanted glass walls:

New Animal AI Pathing Update:

Rosehip Berries:

Wild Mushrooms:

Honey-glazed Pork and Sauteed Vegetables:

Fish Steaks:

Customizable Glow Sticks Colors:

Crayfish:

Free Camera Mode:

Teleport to Player:

Sitting on the Ground:

Seasonal Water Temperatures:

Insect Repellant:

Save/Load-Game Improvements:

Harvesting Hitbox Updates:

No-Build Zones:

New Sounds for Opening Medical Crates:

Seasonal Fish-type Diversity:

Fixed Server List Crash:

Fixed Temperature Reading Errors In Hud:

Lakes Now Freeze Regardless of Players In Caves or Diving:

New Profile Stats Added:

Increased Temperature Penalty For Being Wet (Hardcore):

Fishing Rod Improved Controls:

Fixed Incorrect Animal State Showing In Animal Traps:

Updated Menu Map:

Fixed Exploit Accessing Base Items Through Walls:

Hosting Your Own Server:

New Languages Supported:

• Arabic(currently working on addressing some rendering issues for Arabic)
• Vietnamese
• Thai

Other Notable Changes:

• Prevented audio, glitching in/out while the game world is in the process of loading in. Now audio will smoothly transition in when your boots hit the ground.
• Console now shows welcome message, displaying the "help" command to list available commands.
• Fixed bug where mounted weapon could become misaligned when moving the workbench.
• Fixed bug/exploit where base items could be moved out of a base into another, without transferring it's connection from the original base.
• Added subtle dark gradient behind bottom-left hud messages (for better contrast/visibility).
• Prevented tossed items from sticking to base walls like velcro (they should now drop to the floor as expected).
• Fixed "winter-warning" not showing when joining a server in winter.
• Added error message when attempting to join a server running a different alpha version.
• You can now press escape to exit out of confirm popups.
• Fixed bug where a confirm popup would get stuck on the screen, requiring a game restart.
• Fixed bug where clients of network games wouldn't recognize a clip-size upgrade on a weapon, resulting in them not being able to reload the weapon if it's clip was above the default clip-size count.
• Fixed rare bug where clams and sandstone nodes would disappear when swimming close to them.
• Fixed bat hanging animation not playing for clients of network games. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26620178/2c3d0a47e27eebdf11d3b8cf10ab529b625716fe.png
• Added brief fade from black when entering a profile or respawning after death.
• Fixed bug with food perish times, where a complete stack could disappear after just one of it's stack perishes.
• Added admin console command to disable all base lights on a server. This is a bit of band aid due to base lights having a performance cost if used excessively on servers with many structures, and players leaving all their base lights on when logging off. A true performance fix will come for this in the future.
• Strawberries and rosehips can now be used to bait small animal traps. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26620178/b878a21a01da34d02bb364fe8b85a86517b2a23b.png
• Fixed bug where it was still possible to access enemy woodburners, even when the server was set to disallow access of other players base items.
• Fixed underwater gap in the fenceline in the large eastern lake.

Summary:

Dedicated Servers:

Server Browser Update

Filters, search and history:

Profile Stats:

Weapon Stats:

Hunting Stats:

Looting Stats:

Server Admin Login:

Admin Kick/Ban/Unban Players:

Verified Servers:

Fixed Client Jumping/Landing Lag:

Improved Client Unlocking Crate Lag:

Removed lag from picking up small animals and dropped items:

Player Count?

PvE/PvP?

• PvP damage can be enabled/disabled.
• PvP Base Damage: Whether players can damage player-built bases.
• Access Enemy Player Base Items: Whether players can access enemy player base items, such as storage crates, refineries, etc (does not include doors/windows/hatches).

Renting A Server:

New Tree Collision:

Crate Labels:

Fixed client-side bug where buildables show as fully damaged:

New Buildable Move/Disassemble Rules:

• Cannot move/delete a buildable if it was placed by another player, unless that player is a member of the same base.
• Cannot move/delete a buildable if it is within another team's BCU range of influence (even if they placed it).
• Can move/delete any buildable placed by another team if it is within their BCU's range of influence.

Base Decay (Dedicated Servers Only):

Additional Admin Cleanup Abilities:

Harvesting Grown Plants:

Plant Bed Alignment & Network Performance:

Cougar AI update:

Hunter AI - Close-Range Combat:

Save-Game Button:

Exit to Main Menu:

Fixed Flashlight Shadow Artifacts:

Updated Weather Effects While Swimming:

Hardcore Death Penalty on Dedicated Servers:

Bat Location/Attack Bug Fixed:

Expanded Server Build Limit:

Other notable changes:

• Fixed occasional glitchiness causing the player to get hung-up on base items.
• Fixed bug for clients of mp games where doors and crates would not remove once destroyed (and be left with no collision).
• Fixed hunters often using the incorrect weapon holding states, leading to odd poses while in combat.
• You can now hit Escape to exit the map view.
• Fixed bug where the map could open at a strange angle.
• Fixed occasional bug of spawning a player too close to a hunter camp, predator (or potentially inside another player's base).
• Fixed deer and moose not correctly exiting out of their idle animations when fleeing for clients of mp games.
• Made some design changes to the solo and multiplayer profile launch UI to show the individual settings more clearly.
• Fixed the clam pickup message showing if clicking on the shell after taking the pearl.
• "Game saved" message no longer shows for clients, and now uses the correct hud messaging and localized fonts.
• Fixed short period of seeing "is being accessed" message when exiting out of accessing a base item.
• Added a proper jump landing sound when landing in snow (previously was the default dirt sound).
• The local Steam language will now be auto-selected when first starting the game after installing (so players shouldn't need to manually change the language when they first play).
• Fixed month override not working when first starting a brand new profile.
• Prevent players stepping up on base items when crouching next to them.
• Fixed rare bug that could cause the player to fly into the air when pushing up against the perimeter fence.
• Fixed bug that would cause the player to lose movement control when submerging into water while climbing a ladder.
• Fixed bug of increasing power cost of bed spawns not showing for clients of network games.
• Bed spawns in co-op (player hosted) hardcore servers, now increase in cost after each purchase (same as in single player).
• There is now a checkbox in the co-op launch screen to show or hide the game from the public server list.
• Added more appropriate sound for when campfires and traps are destroyed from decay.
• Fixed exploit that allowed two team members to own two bases that would both auto-generate power/mass.
• Fixed UI bug that was preventing players from declining a base invite.
• Fixed exploit that allowed a BCU to be linked to another.

Summary

Large Cave Expansion:

Wild Boar:

Slanted Glass Walls:

Foundation Stairs (half):

Bats:

Hunter AI Adjustments (and firepower):

Reduced firepower in Easy/Normal:

Hunter Targeted Base Switching:

Base Item Register and Range Extenders:

• Everytime you move a base item, if unlinked, it will check if it should relink with a base.
• When you place a range extender, it will check if base items in its radius should be relinked.
• When daisy-chaining Range Extenders, removing one in the chain will disconnect all in the remainder of the chain (and base items). Replacing that gap in the chain, will reconnect it.

Wild Strawberries:

Animal/Fish Traps Duration Increased:

Campfires Affected by Rain:

Campfires Now Decay:

Co-op Random Poison Bug Fixed:

Fixed Cave Lighting Bug (clients of co-op games):

Vertical Half Walls:

Elevators Will Now Stop On Half Floors:

Water Shaders Updated:

Fixed Glass Roof Alignment:

Migrating Birds Updated:

Increased Size of Wild Cotton Plants:

Dedicated Servers?

Other Notable Changes:

• Fixed shadow bug that would result in floating hair shadow for female characters.
• Increased the range of weapon flashlights.
• Added lighting for white water particles (including when fishing). Previously would be fully lit at night.
• Fixed small gaps in the walls of the old cave system.
• Increased resolution of loading screen.
• Fixed "hunters moving into the world" message showing when building a second base.
• Added smooth transition between outdoor and cave environmental lighting (new cave entrance only).
• Fixed max health/stamina resetting on death. This was supposed to be included in Alpha 52, but didn't make it in. Decrease amounts are now 2/4/6 across easy/normal/hardcore respectively.
• Fixed bugged metal door model when in an open state.
• Fixed bug that was causing up to 4 hunter bases spawning to surround a single player base.
• Fixed exploit that allowed players to save/reload while low on breath to reset breath timer while diving without diving gear.
• Fixed visual bug where held weapon (and arms) would show while in map view.
• Increased visibility underwater.
• Fixed various underwater impact sounds playing without underwater fx.

Lathe:

Elevators:

Elevator tracks:

Elevators switches:

Animal traps:

Fish traps:

In-game Map!

Inventory HUD overhaul:

Rug:

BCU Range Extender:

New graphics for sun:

Largemouth Bass:

Major Performance Overhaul:

Base (built structures) rendering performance:

World rendering performance:

Improved shadow falloff

Smoother butcher camera transitions:

High FPS native support:

New Languages (Japanese and Korean):

Other notable changes:

• Fixed migrating bird not showing for clients of co-op games. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26620178/666786c7aa6686c3e9635983c867627d77052d9e.png
• Move the hammer to the default player crafting menu (previously crafted in BCU).
• The hammer now takes low usage damage over time. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26620178/fe2f1c8613081661c63ef625f26da429fd7522b1.png
• Fixed bug that could cause hardcore profiles to be reset to normal (and on rare occasions being lost).
• Fixed bug that could cause moose and deer to despawn during a hunt (or attacking players and hunters). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26620178/67cb68ac6dd60b2327f31c947d19fca4e8e0c75c.png
• Fixed issue whereby cooked or burnt meat could switch to raw while shift-clicking singles from a stack.
• Fixed bug where a URL in a hosting players Steam name would prevent the co-op profile from launching.
• Reduced the default master volume.
• Fixed bug that was resetting max health and stamina progression on death. Now death will result in a reduction of 2/4/6 across easy/normal/hardcore respectively.
• Fixed long-standing issue whereby inventory items could lag behind the mouse pointer when dragging quickly.
• Fixed underwater lighting caustics effects not showing for clients of co-op games.
• Fixed performance-hogging AI pathing bug, which could occur in hunter bases. This was a small fix, but was causing some big performance drops on large co-op servers. Thanks to the players who sent me their save files that allowed me to isolate this issue!
• BCU Cracker recipe has been moved to the Lathe.
• Added gentle flicker to lighting from campfires, woodburners and molotov fires.
• Fixed rare glitch that could cause the player to die when crouching while entering shallow water.
• Prevented player from using sprinting stamina while swimming. This will also stop the player from sprinting when running into water.
• Fixed occasional random weapon reloading sounds for clients of co-op games while nearby other players.
• Fixed exploit allowing hunter storage crates to be accessed through doors.

Cave Access?

Hunter Pathing Update:

Seasonal Bird Migration:

Bear Maulings

Configurable Year Duration

Foliage Collision

Fixed Hunters Disengaging During Attacks:

Fixed Predator AI Failing To Attack Base Items:

Updated AI Pathing on Frozen Lakes:

Increased Number Of Rogue Camps, Moose and Deer

Fixed Bed Spawn Bug:

New Language Support: Simplified Chinese:

Other Notable Changes:

• Fixed bug/exploit where burnt meat could be converted back to raw when adding to the fire.
• Fixed item dropdown menus sometimes getting stuck on screen.
• Fixed occasional crash when accessing certain base items (such as solar panels, turbines, radiator, etc).
• Reduced Depth of Field Blur at Distance. I've dialed back the aggressive depth of field blurring over distance. This results in an overall cleaner presentation and image quality.
• Fixed edge-case bug where fortresses would sometime not reconstruct elsewhere after being destroyed.
• Fixed bug where dropped kits would sometimes float in the air after being killed by a predator. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/26620178/e8bea382acb38209321d081f825f108dc22cac74.png
• Fixed item pickup messages not showing the item name for clients of co-op games.
• Disabled gamepad input by default, preventing the issue of new players turning in circles when first playing the game. This can be re-enabled by setting AllowJoystickInput=1 in UDKEngine.ini.
• Fixed diving gear exploit, where it was possible to refill the oxygen meter by switching out the diving gear while underwater while no O2 tank was present.
• Reduced tree shake while chopping wood.
• Fixed issue whereby 9mm stacks would be removed on death if stacked on top of freely issued rounds.

SEASONS:

Seasonal Visual Transitions:

Spring:

Summer:

Fall:

Winter:

Snowfall:

Seasonal Trees:

Heat Hydration and Cold Protein Depletion:

Radiators:

Air Conditioners:

New Temperature and Base Insulation Mechanics:

Melting Snow:

Moose Rutting Season:

Frozen Rivers and Lakes:

White Wolves (and Bear Hibernation):

Pickable Cotton:

Water Temperatures:

Winter Jacket:

Sweater:

Weapon Usage Damage and Maintenance:

Upgraded Weapons Repair:

Clothing Damage and Repairs:

Clothing Stats:

Hunter Seasonal Clothing:

Status Icons Update:

Heat Packs:

Wolf and Bear Fur Update:

New Fishing Line Simulation:

Item Dropdown Menus Alignment Fix:

Reduced Loot During Winter:

Dropped Kits Now Save:

Extra Server Details and Seasonal Warnings When Joining:

Seasons Duration:

Editing The Current Month:

Lightning Can Now Be Disabled:

River Water Transitions:

New Language - Estonian:

Other Notable Changes:

• Prevented infection from animal attacks during the first day on easy and normal modes (full day for easy and 0.6 of a day for normal).
• Increased speed at which fish are reeled in when fishing.
• Increased distance at which loot will not despawn near players.
• Added subtle metallic reflections to base armor-plating.
• Updated almost all foliage (grass, flowers, bushes) such that wind will only affect the upper part of the plants. Previously roots of grass would move in unison with the upper part.
• The menu map will now display in the same season as the most recently saved SP profile save.
• Fixed rare bug where wind turbines would not turn and generate power.
• New sound for picking up plants.
• Added one second delay preventing players from drinking from a canteen after filling with dirty water (to prevent accidental infection).
• Reduced volume of the double barrel shotgun fire sound.
• Slightly reduced the number of ore nodes in the world (and decreased their size).
• Prevented edge-case where fishing tackle would fall through the ground if cast on to the ground or river.
• Higher tier shirts and pants now require the lower tier as part of their crafting recipe.
• A random clothing item is no longer deleted on death (in normal mode).
• Starting M9 and low tier pants now start on low health.
• Added lower poly LOD’s for all clothing and human meshes.
• Fixed sudden lighting changes while transitioning into evening/morning during cloudy/rainy days.
• Fixed bug where the light from a fire wouldn’t move for clients of co-op games if the fire was moved.
• Alpha version number now displays at the top right of the hud.
• Prevented edge-case in hardcore mode where premium weapons parts could be excluded from hunter base destruction crates.

Summary:

Scuba Diving:

Diving Station:

Diving Gear:

O2 Tanks:

Caves:

Crystal and Coal:

Mining Hunters:

Clam Shells & Pearls:

Circuit Boards:

Ore Node Destruction Physics:

Large Storage Unit:

Blood Decals:

Premium Weapon Parts:

Fixed Loot Despawning Near Player:

Daytime Color-Grading and Foliage Density:

New Underwater Environment Detail:

Distance Visibility Culling:

Fishing Mechanic Tweaks:

Tool Degradation For Mining Nodes:

Prevent Unneeded Med Usage:

Camera Smoothing While Stepping Up Ledges:

New Language - Romanian:

Other Notable Changes:

• Slugs cost 1 less iron.
• Fixed bug that allowed items to be shift-clicked into the bed.
• New water splash particles in rivers.
• Fixed bug where HC profiles weren’t being successfully wiped in a fail-state.
• Reduced storm sounds while underwater.
• Fixed bug that could cause rain particles to play while underwater.
• Added new underwater caustic lighting fx (moving light ripples).
• New axe/pickaxe underwater swinging sound.
• Extended reach of axe and pickaxe.
• Increased size of kelp.
• Moose have had a slight stats boost.
• PvP kills now get logged in the launch log file (allowing server admins to identify them if they wish to ban).
• New console command “coord” will display the local players map coordinates (type “help” to see a list of available commands). This is primarily to help with trouble-shooting bugs with the community.
• Deer and moose will less frequently choose to swim in lakes when fleeing from danger.
• Fixed bug where you couldn’t switch ammo types when clicking the ammo-type icon while weapon was in slot 1.
• Fixed bug where hunters would fire random shot at the ground when fleeing to cover.
• Fixed co-op client audio bug where sleeping players would make reloading sounds.
• You now get slightly more gunpowder and casings when crafting at the workbench.
• Fixed glitched floating ore nodes and kelp at the foot of he western river.
• Fixed edge-case bug where moose would choose to stay in a particular area and stop roaming the world.
• Fixed hammer impact/repair sounds not playing for clients of co-op games.

Double Barrel Shotgun:

Distiller:

Alcohol:

Molotov Cocktail:

Hunters Will Use Molotovs:

New Tree-Chopping Animation:

Big Networking Performance/Scaling Improvements:

• Both client and server now only spawn dynamic items for loot in their immediate view (less rendering and tick cost).
• Far greater stability and scaling for servers with huge bases.
• Less demand on the server to determine if items are relevant to clients (much less stress on CPU).

Player Count Increased To 10:

Ore Nodes Not Showing For Clients:

Zero Harvesting Lag For Clients:

Shotgun Slugs:

Beards:

Animal Housing Changes:

New Hitmarkers:

Oxygen Meter:

Explosions Camera Shake:

Weapon Holding Position:

Co-op Hardcore Fail Message:

Danish Language Support:

• Morten sørensen
• Jesper Christensen
• Bartholomeo Rudolph

Other Notable Changes:

• New sound for tools breaking.
• Current ammo types now show above all toolbelt weapons while the inventory is open.
• Chicken stew now gives +hydration.
• Fixed bug that allowed items to be lost via shift-clicking into the fabricator.
• Slightly increased speed at which loot will repopulate after harvesting a zone.
• Fixed newly-posted co-op chat messages fading out while the player has the chat open.
• Fixed glitch where animal house water meter would briefly fill to max when adding cooked foods.
• Fixed bug where queued crafting meters would visually continue while game was paused.
• New first person sprinting animation for the M9.
• Selected ammo type for a weapon (such as premium/grenade arrows) now persist through a save/load.
• Prevented hitmarker showing when player takes environmental damage.
• Condition icons are now cleared when player dies.
• Fixed oven not showing pans cooking when loading a save.

Hosting player performance:

Performance stats comparison (~200% performance increase):

Impact on clients:

Ore nodes visibility:

Player-count scaling:

Moose:

Slow Roasted Ribs and Veg:

Recurve Bow:

• Deals slightly more damage per shot.
• Higher velocity arrows (so easier for leading shots).
• Less arrow drop.
• Quicker handling.
• Slightly better zoom while aiming.
• Arrows have a greater chance of breaking.

Flashlight Attachment:

Batteries:

Charge Indicator:

In-Item Storage:

Player Cleanliness:

• Submerge yourself in water.
• Press “use” on a water surface (if you want to stay dry).
• Use a full canteen or water bottle (option is in the right-click menu).

New Animal Butchering:

Harvesting Animals In Water:

Sitting On Chairs:

More Shift-Click QOL Additions:

Generator and Fabricator Auto-Shut-Off:

Glass Door:

New Supported Languages:

• Polish (by Daniel Lokietek & Tomasz Samulski)
• Swedish (by Mattias Gustavsson)

Other Notable Changes:

• Increased spawn rate of locked crates. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26620178/47e67f4258e058e21a48a014d47b8510d6a48df8.png
• Fixed bug where the BCU marker sometimes wouldn’t show after BCU is first placed.
• Fixed hunters getting caught on the dropped kit when being killed in water.
• Crafted weapons are now added directly to the toolbelt.
• Reduced time to disassemble items.
• Fixed exploit of being able to add items to unallowed slots by swapping with item currently in the slot.
• Fixed bug of grenades being lost when throwing one with a stack size greater than 5.
• Slightly reduced ambient sound volume.
• Fixed cougar suspicious animation not playing for clients of co-op games.
• Fixed bug with host of co-op game not seeing the cougar “dragging-human” killing animation.
• Fixed cougar not dropping corpse when attacked during kill animation.
• Increased the time it takes for chasing predators to reach top speed.
• Increased the size of the lines indicating max health and stamina for better visibility. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26620178/25b4900c20dc2c08cc773a357c401564a647b641.png
• Fixed bug where player would go into falling animation when taking damage while asleep.
• Added fallback for rare bug where items can become invisible for clients. Now dragging another item into the slot will correct the slot.
• Fixed bug where clothing items were still clickable after closing the HUD.
• Workbench now defaults to the “Craft” tab.
• Fixed bug where ammo-type icon was not showing while switching for hosts.
• Fixed bug of clients not being able to view the correct model for alternate arrow types being used by other players and hunters.
• Fixed rare bug where 1st person arms get stuck in sprinting anim after aiming down sights.

Translation Support Credits (in no particular order):

Hunter Fortresses:

New Indoor AI System:

Hunters now go fishing:

Hunters cooking food:

New system for hunter base placement:

Hunter base operations:

• The woodburner gets topped up with fuel and lit.
• Fat is added to the woodburner and rendered down.
• Ores are added to the refinery and refined (drawing power from the main base).
• Power generators are topped up with fuel and set to run when low on power (also put into overdrive if the power-draw is high).
• Meats are cooked on the woodburner.
• Perishable food items are stored in the fridge (and the fridge turned on when food is inside).
• Base lights are switched on/off depending on the time of day.
• Cooked meals can often be found in the oven (no pans however).

AI target switching:

Breaching Charge:

Rogue Transceiver:

New hunter aiming and combat:

Hunter bases will spawn further out from player bases:

Hunter bases will spawn further out from other hunter bases:

Defensive walls handling:

Hunters start moving into the world earlier:

Hunters drop less food items and more munitions:

Hunter squad-mates will not aggro if their teammate engages in combat far from their base:

Solar panels power production reduced during storms:

Time to unlock crates has been reduced:

Time to upgrade buildables to armor-plated has been reduced:

Reduced predator count in certain hot-zones:

Many more item types added to the hunter loot drops:

Armor plated door:

Foundation stair railings:

Half wall (curved):

Toolbelt and clothing item-order restored when picking up death crate:

Tool degradation:

Hunter dropped kit hud icons:

New berry plant:

Base structure collision with ragdolls?

Reduction of max health/stamina on death reduced:

Older save-game compatibility?

New Supported Languages:

• Russian
• Turkish
• Dutch

Logs and sticks:

Other notable changes:

• Fixed selected tab not highlighting when accessing the fridge.
• Fixed bug where low-grade rabbit and chicken meat wouldn’t burn.
• Fixed bug where you could accidentally use an inventory item at the end of the butcher animation.
• Added contextual hot-key hint to the use action on item dropdown menus.
• Gameplay now fades to black when exiting the game.
• Now only possible to lose a max of one clothing item when dying (in normal and hardcore).
• Only the bandage issued for free gets destroyed on death (previously a whole stack could get flagged as free).
• Fixed glitchy AI movement (both hunters and animals) through water to now stay level with water surface (while roaming).
• Added damage skins for the bed.
• Added more performant LOD culling for fibers and pickable plants in the world (previously they were being rendered even if very far away).
• New wind animation for medicinal plants.
• Removed glitch where players could deal damage by jumping on another player’s head (some players may miss this… :) ).
• Hunters now no longer use grenades if they’re attacking players who are taking cover in their own base.
• Hunters will now react to grenades exploding new them at a greater range.
• Solar panels and wind turbines can now be placed on glass roofs.
• Many new (lower-poly) LOD models used for base items when viewing at range.
• Medicinal fluid stack size increased to 100.
• Fixed bug where loading a SP save game would load the player as the gender they were when the game was saved (rather than what they have selected in the character menu).
• Fixed glitchy splashing when entering/exiting water while crouched.
• Removed camera bob when rising or lowering in water.
• Fixed exploit of producing mass quantities of biofuel from the woodburner (thanks to a community member for spotting this one).
• Fixed bug with broken leg and bleeding icon occasionally not showing after loading a save.

Translation Continued Support Credits

Female Playable Character:

Clothing:

Hair Physics:

Custom Damage Skins:

Gender Toggle Menu:

Character Customization?

Multi-Language Support:

• German
• Spanish
• Italian
• Portuguese (Portugal)
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• French
• Norwegian
• Hungarian
• Czech

Wind Turbines:

Extra Shift-Click Abilities:

• Meats and canteens into the woodburner and campfire.
• Water and fertilizer into plantbeds.
• Seeds into plantbed grow-slots.
• Fuel into the power generator.
• Fat into the fat-renderer in the woodburner.
• Animals into the animal housing.
• Food and water into the animal housing.

Menu Pause Screen (single-player):

Character Camera View:

Expanded Hunter Build Zones:

Loot Spawn Optimizations:

Batch-extract for Seeds:

Other Notable Changes:

• Optimized save-game logic to require less data be written to disk during saves.
• Fixed progress bar not showing while upgrading weapons in the workbench.
• Many minor tweaks to existing male character animations (this is ongoing).
• Halved the craft time for bandages. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26620178/e2c4710022dee55b8d8112577f88ee15959e331e.png
• Death message now shows actual mapped keybindings.
• New sound for accessing the refinery.

Summary:

Translation Support Credits (in no particular order):

Spanish:
• José Gabriel Rodríguez González
• Toni Racing Hungarian:
• Erb Ármin(Reaper)
• Bodó Ádám (Dyxon) Portuguese (Brazil):
• Marcos Lacerda
• Thiago Schumacke
• Robson Prioli
• Luiza Gimenez
• Rafael Ahab Squarça
• Lucas Lima German:
• Sebastian Künzel Portuguese (Portugal):
• Sandrine Magalhaes
• Claudia Rocha (Xena) Italian:
• Federico D. Ravagli French:
• Anthony Charrault Norwegian:
• Sven Geissler
• Svein Tore Stegemoen Czech:
• Petr - Dílna U mnicha

Dynamic Weather System:

Weather fronts:

Temperatures:

Shelter changes:

Getting wet:

Spatial environmental sounds:

Interior weather fx:

Base member invite system:

Power/Mass auto generation:

Water added to mining drill:

Co-op joining connection error handling:

Co-op hosting admin console commands:

• ListPlayers (list all players currently on the server)
• KickPlayer
• KickBanPlayer
• ListBans (list all active bans on the server)
• ClearBan (clear a specific ban for a player id)
• ClearAllBans
• ListBases (list all player bases on the map, will show number of base members and how many currently online per base)
• DeleteBase (delete a specific player base on the map)

Other notable changes:

• Dropped kit despawn time has been increased (10 mins in normal, 15 mins in easy).
• Hunters will now switch bases that they are targeting based the status of the base.
• Bottles of water can be used to fill canteens. I see this a temporary workaround to allow for drilled water to be used in the oven recipes. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26620178/325817e0f23eb3c4498f25b0411746ec13154a9c.png
• Replaced place-holder model for player dropped kit (and new sound for accessing it). https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26620178/73e6993445b59199099200eea13cf9185ba36357.png
• Plantbeds get a small amount of water from rain (if they are not covered). https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26620178/4df5a54ecc6116399188b30316f631dd2e8a29e3.png
• Fixed bug that could cause player’s dropped kit spawning inside rocks and trees (really sorry for anyone who lost upgraded weapons to this bug).
• BCU and workbench now have extra inventory slots and larger craft list sizes.
• Added new underwater particle fx.
• When accessing player dropped kit, you can now see all slots.
• Added ambient glow for floodlight faces. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26620178/81fae21935ef64fddbe60a97a2333ff0aa8763e8.png
• BCU now has the option to disable it’s base beacon. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26620178/953d091e491aaa34302d42f09bec2fe094098a78.png
• Alt-F4 now works for exiting the game.
• Password fields in the co-op hosting and joining menus are now hidden (so streamers don’t need to worry about people crashing their servers).
• Whole chickens can now be cut into smaller pieces of premium meat. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26620178/6909fbd880907555f91508271728851264417561.png
• Random (non-bed) spawns will avoid spawning players at high altitudes during storms.
• New death sounds for killing chickens in your inventory.
• Eating when full now takes into account whether the proteins/fruits-veg bars can accommodate eating the food item. So if you’re hunger is full, but your fruits and veg are low, you can still eat tomato soup etc.

New collectable plants:

Farming:

Oven:

Cooking Equipment:

Oven Upgrades:

New Cooked Meals:

Fried:

Boiled:

Baked:

Whole Chickens:

New Health System:

Penalties:

Eating when full:

Updated item hover tips:

Mining Drill (Wellhead repurposing):

Other notable changes:

• Eating low-grade raw chicken and rabbit now causes illness.
• Antidotes now require raw liver (not cooked/burnt/rotten).
• Fixed bug that could cause hunters and animals to spawn outside the fence (at the 90° fence corner by the new expansion).
• Jumping and landing in shallow river water now triggers appropriate splashing sound.
• Players can now mouse-hover + use-key on the canteen to fill it with water.
• Fixed splashing footsteps not playing at the lower section of the new wide stream.
• Increase max stack counts of many items (too many to list), to accommodate for growing number of item types.
• Fixed rare bug that would cause clients of network games to not lose stamina and health stats.

Configurable hunter attack settings: