The Last Plague: Blight news & patch notes

Got a whole bunch of bug fixes and improvements in this patch after collecting reports over the last while. Also did a bit of performance optimization and networking improvements that touch many parts of the game logic, let me know if you see something weird!

Fixes

• Fixed corrupt data on objects breaking the game load process. Instead the object will attempt to be repaired and removed if repair isn't easily possible

• Fixed colliders of clay tile roofs so that they no longer block doors from fully opening

• Fixed incorrect collision of triangular walls with the support beams they sit on top of

• Fixed doors not blocking further doors from being placed in the same doorway

• Fixed medical item durability not syncing correctly on co-op joining players

• Fixed the font setup to better allow for the upcoming Chinese localization

• Fixed used up medical items like bandages combining with and reducing condition of fresh ones

• Removed "rabbit remains" from decayed crows

• Fixed journal task list overflowing the window when there are too many tasks

• Fixed pressing "enter" to finalize a map marker causing the chat box to pop up in co-op games

Improvements

• Reworked the game join process and overall chunk sending system to allow for slower network connections, down to 500kbps up/down. Joining games and loading chunks during exploration will take a while in these scenarios but the game will now at least function rather than fail to connect

• Improved chunk streaming and network message processing to better disregard out-of-order packets and avoid corruption in certain cases like terrain textures

• Reworked the core entity processing system to be more CPU efficient. You may see modest performance improvements in scenes with many items or building pieces active at the same time

• Improved memory management during chunk unloading to avoid brief framerate hitches

Balance

• Doubled the life of smoked meat items

• Disabled decay of liquids like berry juice when properly fermenting (in a closed container)

• Moderately increased sawing stamina cost

Additions

• Allow torch to be ignited by limestone burn piles

Hey everyone,

It's been so great to see all the support for the game as it continues to grow after the Early Access release. Been very busy prototyping and planning out the rest of the work needed for a solid 1.0 release version.

After mapping out the story elements, various features and content, I'm now targeting Q1 2027 for the 1.0 release!

The biggest goal for 1.0 is to make the Blight feel like something that can finally be properly confronted and resolved. The full release will add the late-game path toward ending the Blight, including expanded NPC survivor interactions, advanced clearing methods, and a proper conclusion to the current story arc.

Expect to see:

• New late-game Blight clearing mechanics

• Expanded survivor NPC interactions, requests, and trading

• New ways for survivor camps to help with resource production

• New world generation features and refinements

• Many new items, crafting recipes, structures, and resources

• New home-related objects like chairs, stoves, beds, roofing options, and more

• Hostile survivors that do more than just stay glued to a stationary camp

• Glassblowing and related crafting additions

• A ton of other smaller improvements and content based on all the great suggestions everyone has made over the past while!

As with all previous updates released during Early Access I aim to make sure the 1.0 release still works and loads pre-1.0 saves properly, but the experience may not be as ideal as starting a fresh game. There may be some conversion and/or chunk refreshes required to get the full story working.

Here's a sneak peek at some new farmland generation near villages:

There's still a lot to build and test, but I wanted to share the current direction and give a clearer sense of where 1.0 is headed. Thanks for being part of the journey of The Last Plague!

Small update to fix some of the bigger issues raised recently.

Fixes:

• Fixed the bug introduced in v0.12.3 that would delete items when equipping something and there wasn't enough space for the just-unequipped item

• Fixed various hammer-built buildings/shelter pieces not repairable when damaged

• Reworked shadow rendering rendering pipeline to reduce potential for race condition related crashes on certain hardware configurations

Got another set of improvements and fixes for everyone in this next update! Things are starting to look pretty solid with the v.0.12.x updates, work is now geared mostly towards planning out the full 1.0 release path and working on that. Expect a more detailed post about it soon!

Improvements:

• Allowed bow to be stored in belt slots with new left-handed equip animation

• Allowed small backpack (seen on NPCs) to be placeable like other backpacks

• Added custom game option to change chance of NPC camps being hostile (default 33%)

• Added better quiver model

Fixes:

• Fixed wooden shield and reinforced wooden shield infinitely falling through ground when dropped

• Fixed sole plate/lumber post connection logic not correctly registering all relevant sole plates in certain cases. After the previous update to strengthen these connections, there would be cases where destroying a sole plate would cause a post to fall even though there were other sole plates visually connected

• Fixed some interactions not starting via the UI due to incorrect range checks - interactions like harvesting animals, igniting the fire pit, etc.

• Fixed belt slot quick equip not working when bow is held (due to logic missing for offhand slot auto-equip)

• Fixed NPC camps generating in swamps

• Fixed new joining player tutorial tasks not properly set if joining while the host player is still customizing their character

• Fixed a few uncaught errors around interaction handling that could lower performance

Hey everyone, got another huge bunch of fixes and improvements done in this update. There have been a few pretty deep-rooted issues introduced in v0.12.0 around disappearing player characters and bad inventory state that have hopefully been fixed for good. Please do let me know if you still see your character disappearing or any of the other issues mentioned in this update that should have been fixed.

Improvements

• Improved third-person melee attack targeting to feel much more reliable - the attack check was only done from the crosshair, but now it factors in the zone directly in front of the character

• Increased mouse drag distance detection for dragging item stacks so it's easier to shift+click an item instead of accidentally dragging it

• Prevented naturally growing plants from blocking structure placement

• Removed unnecessary AI idle pathing calculations that were causing a performance drop

• Loosened structural connection logic when taking apart certain building pieces - taking apart a sole plate will no longer destroy the posts it's attached to unless that post has no other sole plates, and taking apart support beams will no longer destroy attached floors/posts as long as there are other beams taking the load

• Added a popup alert when autosave takes longer than 2 seconds. During testing it seems that there are cases where a long-running autosave could destabilize the world state and cause all sorts of artifacts to appear. Forcing the game to pause helps eliminate that risk. The alert is bounded to 2 minutes so the game is still recoverable if there is a save-related hang

Fixes

• Fixed error in inventory management causing a cascading failure and potential disappearance of player (and hand cart) as the player moves around

• Fixed exiting the game during an autosave causing the resulting save to be corrupted in certain ways - generally you would see your character disappear with only held weapons/backpack visible after loading such saves

• Fixed missing player character after a load from the above described bad save. Unfortunately there is no way to recover the correct player customization options so the character will default to the initial male character

• Fixed objects disappearing when looking up in third-person mode on the second or third floor

• Fixed sit interaction for co-op joining player not cancellable

• Attempted to prevent frozen UI/controls for co-op joining players when awaking from sleep

• Fixed error causing Elric's item hand-in task to not progress

• Fixed interaction range calculations to avoid UI appearing and disappearing instantly after clicking on an object to move towards it and interact

• Fixed hostile creature behavior not properly respecting "aggression" values after v0.12.0 overhaul - this was making coyotes and wolves continue to attack when they should be backing away

• Fixed creature and NPC melee attack ranges being longer than they should be

• Fixed boars never becoming hostile and ignoring player attacks

• Fixed held wooden shield collider interfering with and preventing proper hand cart and wheelbarrow use

• Attempted to reduce/eliminate instances of terrain modifications reverting when leaving and returning to an area - please let me know if you still run into this

• Fixed co-op players not seeing Elric when he first visits the player camp

• Fixed some interaction edge cases where pressing ESC could leave interactions stuck instead of cancelling cleanly

• Fixed a lot of missing localization errors when running the game with a Turkish locale set on your computer

• Fixed items inside mud brick kiln getting wet even when protected under a roof

• Prevented letters from being delivered to NPC fire pits

• Fixed large objects sometimes disappearing at the edge of the screen during certain camera rotations

• Fixed a ton of uncaught errors that were filling up log files and reducing performance

Other changes

• Added a few more details in the log files to help identify game and world state when logs are sent to help fix issues

Thanks for checking out the NPC update and sharing your feedback! It's exciting to see all the various interactions everyone has been having with the new inhabitants of the world of the Blight, both good and bad. Been fixing up a few issues since the release of the big update and have it ready for release today.

Additions:

• Allowed dead NPCs to be lootable like dead players in co-op

• Added NPC behavior to harvest meat from hunted animals, cook it, and eat or store the cooked meat

Fixes:

• Fixed NPCs not "owning" the items they drop that they cannot fit in their inventories after trading. If you try to pick up too many items that they own, they consider it stealing and will eventually treat you as hostile

• Stuck arrows now properly disappear after some time. In the future there will be a more dynamic system to deal with these items

• Fixed NPCs commandeering player fire pits and other structures

• Fixed hand cart inventory window not snapping fully into view like it was before v0.12.0

• Fixed some NPC camp generations breaking resulting in just a fire pit and nothing else

• Fixed stockpile placement failing on certain surfaces like cabin floors

• Fixed cabin spawning being extremely rare after v0.12.0

• Fixed missing contamination for food items carried by NPCs

• Fixed creatures not respecting their fear of fire if they are currently chasing a target to attack

• Fixed certain popup messages from showing up over NPCs like "ignite attempt failed"

• Fixed "0 min" display for creature harvesting time

• Fixed a bunch of uncaught errors under to hood to improve performance

The NPC update has finally arrived! In your travels you may run into small camps of other survivors that may be friendly or hostile. Also to better facilitate these new characters you meet, a whole bunch of character customization options have been finally added to the game!

Please note that this update (along with all others in the Early Access period) should be fully backwards-compatible with previous save games. Although starting a new game is probably the best way to experience the bigger updates.

New Features

Survivor Camps

Survivor camps can be friendly or hostile. Friendly camps allow you to speak to them, help them with simple requests, ask them about nearby points of interest and trade with them for potentially useful items.

Their behavior is fairly basic right now, they will make sure their fire is going, hunt any nearby creatures, and make sure they have water to drink. Much more advanced functionality and story integration will be something that arrives in the 1.0 release.

Also note that the current NPC AI system is not fully fleshed out and they may end up behaving oddly in certain situations, this is something that I will be continually improving over the next few weeks.

Trading and Economy

As mentioned before, trading and a new economy system is an important feature in this update. Three coin denominations have been added to the game: florins, groats and pennies. Florins are 100 groats, and a groat is 20 pennies. These coins are mainly used for trading, but bartering with items only is also possible. NPCs will tend to value their items more than yours however.

As with the NPCs, this economy system is vast and required a lot of calculations and tweaking. Things will be dialed in over time to make more sense.

Character Customization

A bunch of new character customization options like skin tone, eye color, hair and color, and face shape have been added. It's not a very complex system but I will keep adding more functionality and customization options in the future. Thanks for your patience!

One thing to note: this new customization is only for new games, loading previous games will not allow re-customization, sorry!

Other Fixes

• Fixed chromatic aberration setting not loading properly when the game starts

• Fixed mouse wheel sensitivity consistency across all framerates and OSes

• Fixed missing localization for no injuries text

• Fixed parts of the character disappearing during certain animations and camera angles

Hey everyone, hope you've been having a good 2026 so far! It's been an extremely busy January on my end but unfortunately there is still a bit of work left on getting the Q4 update (or NPC update) all ready for release.

I want to apologize greatly for the further delay of this update, I haven't done a great job estimating all the various complications involved with getting NPCs thinking, trading and behaving well, along with balancing the economy for all items in the game to power the new trading system. The good news is that the new systems are starting to feel very solid, and we are down to just the final polish, and content tasks.

With all that said, I'd like to announce that the NPC update will be released on February 16th 2026!

After the NPC update and a few follow up fix and improvement updates, I will sit down and plan out the 2026 roadmap with the path towards the 1.0 release in detail. A lot of the building blocks are now in place with all the big updates over the past year, especially with the about-to-be-released NPCs inhabiting the dangerous world of the Blight. Be on the lookout for the new roadmap in the weeks following the NPC update.

Also, I plan to get more languages into the game soon as well after a long localization hiatus, with Chinese and Polish as the next priority.

Thanks for playing and supporting The Last Plague!

Hey everyone,

Hope you are enjoying the holiday break!

I wanted to follow up on the Q4 update release timeline. As we approach the end of the year I've had to make the tough decision to push the update further back into January given the remaining work and testing required.

I know a lot of you have been excited about getting your hands on the new NPC content and I was working very hard the past few months to get things ready, but unfortunately it will take a bit more time to get the experience feeling right with the least amount of bugs and issues.

Things are coming along well though. New character customization options were added to help power the new NPC characters and the very old AI system was completely rebuilt from the ground up to allow for much more complex decision making logic for the various entities in the game. Creature behavior should be more improved, and you will be able to run into other survivors in the world with dynamic goals, handling their own survival, friendliness and willingness to trade and cooperate.

Thank you for your continued patience and support. The game has evolved quite a bit over the last year with a ton of new features and content and I'm excited to make 2026 an even bigger year for The Last Plague with a proper 1.0 release.

Happy holidays and happy new year!

A few players were reporting issues with world generation and things like cabins appearing too often. Turns out there was an oversight with some of the updated distance checking code that caused incorrect distance calculations mostly at world generation time, and for some calculations like cabin generation at world explore time. With this update, cabin generation will be fixed going forward in existing post-v0.11.11 worlds, and new worlds will have everything else fixed up (including village and other feature placement). Apologies for the oversight!

Fixes

• Fixed bad distance calculation introduced in v0.11.11 for certain world generation based checks that would cause errors when generating new worlds, cabins that would generate too densely, and other similar issues

Quick hotfix to resolve some issues with rendering objects and clouds in caves

Fixes:

• Fixed objects and the character disappearing when zooming in or heading deep into a cave

• Fixed cloud shadow effects appearing within caves

Here are some more fixes and improvements while the Q4 update is built behind the scenes! Check out the Terrain Tessellation graphics setting if you haven't already now that the performance has been greatly improved

Fixes

• Fixed black squares appearing on the terrain near snowy footprints or dug out holes when MSAA is enabled

• Fixed shadow artifacts near snowy footprints when MSAA is enabled

• Fixed incorrect graphical calculations that would result in shadowy looking snow on steeper terrain slopes

• Fixed system to prevent Blight clouds generating in water by using a more accurate terrain height estimation process during initial world generation (as a result, you will only see this for new games after this update)

• Fixed rafts being deleted when left to drift down a river to the south or west into unloaded areas (east and north were unaffected)

• Fixed the calculations that determined when objects, grasses and the terrain are hidden when rotating the camera using a much more exact AABB frustum culling system. You will no longer see holes in the terrain or objects disappearing at the edge of the screen, especially when on or near very hilly terrain. The logic for hiding objects behind the camera was also fixed to prevent cases of shadows cast by these objects onto surfaces in front of the camera disappearing as the camera is rotated

• Fixed recently gathered wild plants not allowing selection to be dug up

• Fixed plants disappearing when planted and then dug up without watering

• Fixed soft clay roof tiles not having a weight so that they match the fired clay roof tiles

Improvements

• Finally added proper terrain mesh optimization using a custom-built quad-tree level of detail (LOD) system that should slightly improve performance for less powerful graphics cards, and greatly improve performance across the board when using the Terrain Tessellation graphics setting. As a result, Terrain Tessellation no longer has a performance warning and is enabled by default on higher quality setting presets

Other changes

• Removed the ability to overwrite autosaves in-game as these saves would be lost as the game autosaves more in the future

• Increased the brightness underneath cloud shadows to be more realistic

• Added stockpile support for small/large flints and sandstones

More fixes and improvements in this update after a few great bug reports and feedback. Also took a stab at improving the stability of the co-op joining player experience after reports of chunks starting to disappear and not load after extended playtimes. Thanks everyone!

Fixes

• Fixed rare issue that caused certain chunks to not load or show up as a corrupted checkerboard of textures for co-op joining players, caused by a race condition of chunk retrieval retries (due to dropped packets) along with specific chunk load/unload timelines due to certain player movements in the world

• Fixed rare decompression errors causing chunks to not load for extended periods of time for co-op joining players

• Fixed outer corner clay tile roof stretching algorithm to avoid holes in the resulting mesh

• Fixed outer corner clay tile roof placement colliding with walls directly under the roof and vice-versa

• Fixed Blight level being way too high for smoked bass meat

• Fixed tooltip for smoked items to show "Smoked from: " instead of "Hardened from: "

• Fixed bug that would cause infinite hammering if a small stone broke during a building construction or taking apart process

• Fixed co-op joining players not seeing any item updates in the construction materials window of in-progress buildings

• Fixed substance hardening using the total mixture volume instead of the specific substance volume (ex. liquid tallow + water hardening into solid tallow using the full mixture amount instead of just liquid tallow)

• Fixed some Slime resource labels appearing but not actually allowing selection and gathering

• Fixed short planks and nails being impossible to select when they are dropped onto a plank or stone floor

Additions

• Added new status effects tab in the status window (alongside injuries and skills) to show more information about the various status effects that affect your character. This shows up as a separate window when using controllers

• Added an auto-equip for small stones when a held stone breaks during construction or taking apart a building (similar to after throwing a stone)

• Added new Butchering activity skill (and renamed existing Butchering crafting skill to Meat Handling) to track and reward animal carcass harvesting

Balance

• Increased skill level up requirements across the board

• Vastly increased Slime spawning chance in swamps

Other changes

• Upgraded Unity version to 2021.3.45f2 after recent security advisory

• Reworked step up logic to vastly improve navigation around short objects and structures like foundations, removing cases where you'd get stuck running against something that should easily be stepped over automatically

• Prevented object selection when aiming a ranged weapon like a spear or bow to avoid clutter when aiming

Pushing out a small hotfix to resolve a crafting issue that came up relating to certain recipes

Fixes

• Fixed certain crafting recipes like fish meat from fish not functioning properly

• Fixed cooking skill progressing too quickly

• Fixed missing localization for new show skills/show health menu key inputs

Hey all, as mentioned in the recent news post, the Q3 update will be a bit smaller today. Along with skills/proficiencies, there are a small number fixes and additions.

Skills

Skills are now finally in the game, showing up as a tab in the new "Status" window that combines skills with the existing injuries list as tabs.

The skills will show what they affect in a tooltip when hovered over. They increase every time the related action is performed, making your character slightly better at it the more it's done.

This is an initial list of skills, with plans for more to be added in the future. The current set of skills may require some balancing, so please feel free to provide feedback around them and which skills you'd like to see. And also, I know there one of the most requested new structures is a an indoor fireplace for the new advanced building system, rest assured that this will come soon!

Hope you enjoy!

Additions

• Skills - a list of actions that your character can become proficient in with more practice

• Added the Outer Corner Lumber Rafters building piece to allow for more roof configurations

Balance

• Reduced default fire ignite chance for sticks and flint to better integrate new Firetending skill

Fixes

• Fixed "click-to-move" control type not working at all within caves, as well as greatly improving behavior on multi-level buildings

• Fixed injuries not being prevented when fully blocking an attack from a hostile creature with a shield

• Fixed game breaking when leaving a co-op game and then attempting to load a singleplayer save without restarting the game

Hey everyone, as September is coming to an end and after having a detailed look at where the game is and where it's heading, I wanted to share my short and long term plans for the game.

Q3 Update

The Q3 update will be a bit smaller than originally planned unfortunately. Aiming to still get skills/proficiencies out, but NPC survivors and glass blowing need a bit more time to get right as its a lot larger of a feature than I was originally planning. The original plan was possibly a bit too ambitious, apologies for that.

Expect a smaller Q3 update with skills and a few other enhancements by the end of September.

Here is a quick preview of the new, often-requested outer corner roof piece coming in the Q3 update (was a lot harder to implement than the inner corner piece!)

Q4 Update

Pushing NPC survivors and glass blowing to this update. Working and trading with NPCs will be critical to the game's story and the eventual curing of the Blight.

1.0 Release

Not planned out in detail yet, but I'd like to get the 1.0 release out once all of the requisite features are in place (most features released this year as well as NPCs). I imagine this will for sure be in 2026, and ideally in the first half of the year.

The game was released into Early Access almost a full year ago now (wow!) and I'm so appreciative of all the amazing feedback, support, and bug reports over this time. The list of content/feature requests is incredibly long now and I want everyone to know that I read every one. My goal is to find a good balance of what to include that improves the gameplay and experience the most while not pushing the 1.0 launch back too much.

But know that even after 1.0 release, I plan on continuing to work on the game and keep free updates coming many years into the future. There are so many cool things that can be added to the game to make it one of the most interesting realistic-focused survival games out there. Thank you for being here and being part of the The Last Plague's journey!

Here's another update with fixes and improvements! As always, greatly appreciate all of the bug reports and feedback over the past while.

Work on the Q3 update continues but I will be putting up a quick post about this update and a revised roadmap for the rest of the year and beyond soon, now that there is a bit more clarity about where the game is and where it's headed. Thanks for being part of this early access journey!

Fixes

• Fixed case of no hostile creature spawning caused by loading a save while in an active game, where the loaded save is an earlier day than the active game. For example, playing a game on day 7, then loading a save that's on day 4. Hostile creatures would then not spawn for at least 3 days

• Fixed positioning of held soft/hardened jars and pots

• Fixed some buttons in the UI (ex. body part buttons in the health status window) overriding the ESC key behavior while focused resulting in all windows being closed and the main menu opening, instead of just closing the current active window

• Fixed issue with roofs losing their "indoor status" (losing protection from rain/wind/storms) when removing a roof from rafters and and adding another roof back on

• Fixed missing localization of the header in the health/injury management window

• Fixed rain/snow appearing when in a cave

• Fixed objects like young plants breaking the auto-pickup functionality when they are the closest object out of other valid pickup-able objects

• Fixed stockpile placement colliding with lumber support beams underneath floors

• Fixed build/repair/take-apart interactions using the held item's stamina cost when it's not required for the interaction, for example when holding a wooden shovel while building a stone floor

• Fixed the "show discovery popup" gameplay setting not actually saving when it is disabled

• Fixed the interactions list overlapping the mouse cursor and making it hard to choose a spot to dig when holding a shovel and hovering over the terrain (in top-down mode)

• Fixed interactions list positioning when hovering over water to drink or fill containers (in top-down mode)

Additions

• Bleeding-related injuries now result in blood drops on the ground when moving around with more severe bleeding causing more blood drops

• Added rotating autosave functionality. If using autosaves, the game now keeps three separate autosave slots, saving over the oldest one each time the autosave is triggered

• Added autosave when entering caves and an option to enable/disable this in gameplay settings

Balance

• Reduced leech application chance when in water

• Reworked calculation of "indoor status" for roofed areas so that they will be more protected from the elements in various roof/wall situations

• Increased "indoor status" of area under lumber floor, it's not as much as a proper roof but can now be enough to block sunlight for mushroom growth with enough surrounding walls

• Reduced speed of raft

Other changes

• Added tutorial hints for first injury task to make the process a bit clearer

• Adjusted polypore bandage tooltip to better describe its functionality

• Reworked player map marker text sizing to be more dynamic and easier to read when zoomed out

• Improved character idle animation when holding a wooden paddle

• Switched rain particles to use world simulation so that you no longer see the particles "stick" to the camera's position as you run around. This has a slight performance impact however

Further fixes and improvements in this update! Things are starting to look a lot more solid. I've noticed some great feedback around hunting/combat being a bit lackluster and will continue to tackle addressing that over the next few updates. Appreciate your patience!

Fixes

• Fixed fish that die in inventory losing their blight infection level

• Fixed fish dying as soon as they are dropped

• Fixed fish meat harvested from alive fish not being 100% condition

• Fixed missing localization for body part buttons in the health status window

• Fixed text in the buttons on each injury UI element overflowing the button bounds in certain languages

• Fixed triangular walls not being able to connect with the bottom point of inner corner lumber rafters

• Fixed the "transfer all" item action not respecting construction material requirement limits (would transfer more items than required for a building, potentially losing the extra items)

• Fixed covered clay jar contents getting wet when held or dropped on the ground (not placed)

• Fixed "add materials" button for building upgrades (ex. raft -> raft with storage) not doing anything due to a wrong calculation of current materials on the building

• Fixed thick log -> short plank recipe not producing the stated amount of short planks (increase from 8 to 12)

• Fixed "planted" versions of certain plants (with 4 stakes around them) being spawned randomly in the world

• Fixed missing icon for melted pine resin in the journal catalogue

Additions

• Added search functionality to journal catalogue

Other changes

• Gameplay time text for saves is no longer capped to "100+" hours

• Reworked placement of short planks sawed out of logs and thick logs to look nicer

Hey everyone, back with another update with a bunch more fixes and enhancements. Thanks again for all the great bug reports and feedback! Hope you're enjoying all the new stuff!

Fixes

• Fixed bad collision check for triangular wall that was preventing it from being placed in valid spots

• Fixed plant rope having a condition that is normally never observed but would be set to a low value when recovering certain medical items. This would result in further crafted items like clothing having equally low condition

• Fixed inventory controls hint popup being stuck on screen if you have the inventory open when dying

• Fixed the medium-tier disinfectant's name so it's distinguishable from the strongest disinfectant

• Fixed the "transfer all" context menu action not being available when interacting with a backpack placed on the ground

• Fixed sleep window showing a large negative value for remaining fuel time when lying down near the cloaked figure's camp fire pit

• Fixed lumber stockpile not stacking properly when there are enough lumber in the stockpile

• Fixed stockpile layout of large stones and sticks to prevent floating

• Fixed buildings like chests placed on multi-level floors not properly connecting to the floor. Now these buildings will properly hide when selecting a lower floor to show, and will be destroyed when the floor is destroyed rather than remaining floating in the air

• Fixed instances of "floating" grass appearing the world when moving around the world quickly and/or with a slower computer that takes longer to generate all the grasses properly

• Fixed certain building pieces like posts disappearing when built (but still interactable) in locations with very steep terrain (they were being tagged as being in the cave level in these cases so they would never be seen aboveground)

Additions

• Added new injury type: lacerations. They are a more serious bleeding injury that require more urgent care

• Added new injury type: concussions. These are applied after taking heavy damage and affect your energy, potentially causing a loss of consciousness

Balance

• Greatly reduced garlic bulb/clove decay rate

• Greatly increased durability of shovels and iron-tipped shovels. Existing shovels will be updated if they are close to 100% condition

Other changes

• Increased visibility of selected/hovered dropdown list items

• Added a warning when moving a lit torch to a slot that would extinguish it

Bringing some more bug fixes and requested content in this update today. Improved roof building processes, and doors are finally here along with a nicer way to close doors/gates.

Fixes:

• Fixed roof pieces like rafters and clay tiles colliding with other nearby roof pieces, preventing placement

• Fixed item and building placement not taking the current visible floor into account, making the green placement outline snap to a higher floor than you were on

• Fixed raft collision calculation so that climbing on top of the raft out of the water is now possible in more cases

• Fixed cases where some planted mushrooms would decay and disappear due to entering a new growth stage that places them slightly out of the trigger range of the roof above

• Fixed bad calculation for the player character's active floor that would cause the 1st floor to be triggered when standing on the 2nd floor

• Fixed bad distance calculation that would prevent stick rafters from being placed between very far apart (but still valid) stick posts

• Fixed new games having a bunch of dried out plants in the starting area due to a bad temperature check in the first frame of the game

• Fixed leaves not disappearing for co-op joining players when trees are felled

• Dragging to medical items with controller no longer breaks health menu state

• Clove poultice no longer infinitely duplicates itself when used

• Knives no longer give a strange failure message when attempting to treat leeches through the item context menu

• Fixed "press key for attack mode" setting not preventing attacks when clicking on terrain

• Fixed "no injuries" text not disappearing when an injury appears in the health menu UI

• Fixed a bunch of internal errors that could slow down performance

Additions

• Added door that can be placed in doorways

• Added new "close" interaction for doors and gates that will close them automatically without needing to push them closed physically

• Added straight stairs piece that aligns to the middle of beams, making stairs-to-doorway setups better

• Added "inner corner lumber rafters" that can connect 3 higher points with one lower point to make a corner roof piece

• Added stockpile support for lumber

• Injury UI now shows progress bar based on medical action progress

• Health information that was only viewable through tooltips is now viewable on controller

Balance

• Reworked hostile creature spawning to have a shorter default delay (5 minutes -> 2 minutes), and extra logic to prioritize spawning hostile creatures if all have despawned due to the player walking around the world quickly

• Increased injury treatment rate and medical item effectiveness during sleep

• Decreased injury dirtiness accumulation during sleep

Other changes

• Changed clay bowl making task so it can be skipped

• Placing walls now stretches the mesh along the same vertical level instead of snapping to terrain further away from the camera

• Added ability to burn spent pine leaf bandages

• Added a change to the current shown floor when placing a roof above the floor you are on so that the new roof will immediately be interactable

Quick fix for a new bug preventing you from exiting to the main menu in certain cases

Fixes

• Fixed exiting to main menu breaking the game state when you have an injury-related tutorial task active

• Fixed a bunch of internal errors breaking injury processing if the game is loaded in a potential corrupted state

Got a ton of new fixes, quality of life changes and various other improvements in this update for everyone, thanks to all the great feedback and bug reporting!

Fixes

• Fixed terrain flattening for building pieces tearing a hole in the terrain at chunk borders

• Fixed foundation sole plate pieces not being rotatable

• Fixed unbuilt building pieces losing their terrain flattening status on game load

• Prevented the ability to place & attach shelter building pieces to other unbuilt pieces - ex. placing a lumber post on top of an unbuilt foundation sole plate

• Fixed hand/carrying position for a few items

• Fixed player corpses appearing as standing after a game reload

• Fixed German translation for metalworking tasks mentioning mud brick kiln instead of clay brick kiln

• Fixed stone floor not snapping to sole plates like plank floors

• Fixed missing icons for poultice substances

• Fixed lumber beam placement on 2nd floor (or any "new" floor) not being interactable until reload

• Fixed non player related injuries (ex. for creatures) showing up as on-screen messages

• Fixed issue where dragging potable water to dirtied wound in UI wasn't considered a valid action - apologies to those who were confused by this inconsistency

• Creatures no longer receive fall damage related fractures to avoid an accumulation of creature corpses in the world

• Body location infection percentages are now saved properly and aren't reset after a game load

• Stackable treatment items can no longer be stacked while applied to an injury

• Applied treatment items can no longer be used to heal an untreated injury via the heal button

• Fixed hardened pine resin not appearing correctly for co-op players

• Fixed a bunch of internal exceptions that may be reducing performance

Balance

• Reduced construction material requirements for new lumber-based shelter pieces

• Greatly increased clove plant generation chance

• Reduced dirt collection and sanitation loss rates of injuries across the board

• Treated injuries collect dirt and grime at a slightly lower rate

• Small increases to sanitation per unit of water and poultices

• Sanitized injuries now heal faster

• Reduced sanitation rate of polypore bandage

• Slightly reduced cost of stick splint

• Increased leech damage

Quality of life

• Fully treated injuries no longer collect dirt or increase bodily infection

• Sanitation action has been given a more pleasant sound

• New tooltips added to cleanliness and infection bars in injury UI to display current and max values

• Improved injury tutorial text to be more clear about the system's mechanics

• Switched injury heal button text to "recover item" once treatment is applied to make it clearer that the item can be retrieved after the item wears out or treatment completes

• Removed spotted red mushroom and tall white mushroom caps from polypore bandage crafting recipes

Other changes

• Removed season progression restriction for new realistic mode games

Thanks for the reports and apologies for the issues that came up with the new update! Quickly fixed a few of the larger issues, with more fixes and stability to come

Fixes

• Increased interaction range of all interactions to match the recently increased "use" interaction distance. This fixes things like harvesting or igniting kilns not working properly unless you are closer

• Fixed cave underground display not triggering when entering

• Fixed stick wattle and daub walls being invisible

• Fixed wrong sunrise estimate text (30+ hours) when using accelerated seasons

• Fixed pink squares appearing when igniting with flint when using the grass anti-aliasing graphics setting

After a bit of a delay, the Q2 update is finally here! Some big ticket features have been added as well as a host of various other fixes and optimizations. There may be a few things that have slipped through the cracks due to the extent of the changes so be sure to keep your previous saves to fall back on if there are fairly serious issues popping up.

New Features

Injury System

A few injuries can now appear during the course of the game. A new tutorial task has been added to help explain the mechanics of the new system.

Generally for bleeding-based injuries you'll need to stop the bleeding with a bandage-type item, clean and sanitize the wound to fully treat the injury. Leaving injuries dirty risks infection and fever. Other injuries like fractures require splints to regain some use of the affected area.

Advanced Building System

Multi-story building is finally here! The next tier of building uses lumber sawed from tall trees to use as posts and beams. To ensure things stay level, you need to place down foundation pieces called Sole Plates to define where the posts and walls will go. These foundation require the terrain to be level before they can be fully built.

The system works mostly like before, but the roof and floor pieces are drawn from one beam to another rather than snapping to empty triangular or square areas.

Weather and Seasons

And lastly, seasons have arrive in the world of The Last Plague. New season progression and starting season options have been added for new games. New clothing items have also been added to help with the cold.

Given that days last around 2.4 real hours (1.6 with sleep), a faster season progression (2x speed, ~182 days/year) option was added so that Winter could actually be encountered and that it wouldn't last an overly long time. Otherwise each year takes 365 in-game days which would take around 650 real-world hours! Please let me know if these options make sense and if any others would be nice to have.

Other Additions/Changes

• Added max framerate setting in graphics options. Only one of vsync and max framerate can be enabled at the same time

• Allowed gamepad to quick move when dragging an item in the inventory

• Allowed gamepad to quickly drop an item in a hovered-over slot

• Added a "transfer all" context menu action to transfer all items of the same type to another inventory

• Added non-Apple keyboard support on Mac

• Added ability to add custom languages to the game's internal localization file (with ability to select in gameplay settings) rather than requiring English to be overriden

• Added more warnings in places when dragging items like bowls that would lose liquid when placed

• Added Liam Suter to programming credits. Thanks for the help this Summer!

Fixes

• Fixed rare case of co-op joining players failing to join because of a world generation edge case that breaks during the join game process

• Fixed cases of wheelbarrow getting stuck in the ground

• Fixed character customization popup showing for co-op joining players every time they join rather than just the first time

• Fixed ranged attack toggle when pressing key in the UI

• Fixed task skip button not appearing for mouse and keyboard gameplay

As always, please let me know any issues you see and any feedback you have with the new systems in the game. I'm really excited to keep building out the game and get all these cool features out, so thanks for all the support so far since Early Access release! I hope you enjoy!

Hey everyone, wanted to give you all some details on the awaited Q2 update. It's getting very close to completion but still needs a bit of time for polish, testing and final fixes. Given that Canada Day lines up with the end of this month (July 1st), I wanted to make sure an update this size has the time to be fully ready with minimal game-breaking issues, with resources available afterwards to make sure. A lot has been reworked and changed to support injuries, the new weather and advanced building systems.

With all that, I'm aiming to get the Q2 update out July 14th, 2025. I apologize that it's not really hitting the Q2 timeframe as originally planned, but it will be worth the wait to make sure things are as solid as can be!

I'll try to get a smaller update out before then with a few fixes and UX improvements between now and then.

Here's an example of what will be possible with the new building system:

Thanks for your patience! It will be worth the wait.

• Reworked sun position to only be set every few frames rather than every frame to reduce amount of flickering you may see around the edges of the shadows, especially at lower settings
• Reworked cloud shadow rendering to take the new sun positioning into account
• Added ability to chop up dead logs to receive scrap wood
• Added new input to switch between top-down and third-person perspectives (only with keyboard/mouse, default key: H)
• Added smoked fish recipes

• Fixed third-person mode field of view (FOV) being incorrectly zoomed out after the character customization update (v0.10.0)
• Fixed wrong terrain height calculation near chunk borders that would cause terrain levelling to creates spikes along these borders
• Fixed smoked item tooltips showing "hardening" percentage instead of smoked percentage
• Fixed female character dress behavior when walking
• Fixed creatures getting into a state where they run around the player without being able to hit them
• Fixed potential hang when starting or loading a game with large view distance on MacOS

• Removed superfluous texture sampling calls in terrain rendering to increase framerate a small amount

• Reduced stamina cost when using shovels

• Increased environmental brightness in various cloudy conditions
• Increased sky brightness below the horizon (if on a mountain or hill)

• Finally added ability to break up all large rocks/boulders with a pickaxe
• Added new grass anti-aliasing graphics setting that greatly reduces "twinkling" of grass and other foliage as the camera moves around slowly. Note that this setting adds a decent performance impact due to the removal of a rendering optimization step related to grass-based surfaces

• Fixed long-standing issue of the anti-aliasing setting not being loaded properly on game start-up
• Fixed floor lengths not being updated to work with the new snap-to-grid distance increase for beams/walls
• Fixed fish not triggering fish traps as much as they should
• Removed "rabbit remains" for fish when they decay
• Reduced bonus stack size for hearth furnace slots to avoid situations where you can't add enough fuel to complete the smelt
• Fixed infinite splash effect when creatures die in fairly shallow water
• Added speed reduction when the character is approaching a target position for an interaction such as piloting a raft to avoid jittering at the center
• Fixed being able to walk into a raft's storage area to push it across the water
• Fixed fish not properly passing on their infection level to their resulting meat items in certain cases

• Removed spawn chance of hostile creatures near camp at night
• Greatly reduced chance hostile creatures wandering near camp

• Increased depth that posts can be placed in water to better allow for protection against hostile creatures
• Reworked creature disease state to be set when they spawn rather than when they die. Won't change things much now but will better set up the game for breeding animals and whatnot later on
• Reworked how the far-away terrain is rendered to no longer rely on stencil masks but still nicely blend between it and the nearby detailed terrain

• Fixed ranged attack targeting in top-down mode - the target circle was behaving oddly when aiming higher than the character (ex. up a hill)
• Fixed ranged attack targeting in third-person mode - specifically for throwing stones, the angle calculation was done from the wrong point causing the stone to be thrown to the right
• Fixed in-inventory dead rabbits losing their inventory state when loading a save, causing their harvestable items to be empty when trying to harvest after being dropped
• Fixed internal error happening during nighttime due to missing fish spawn data

• Added a migration of demo saves to the full game. This will only happen for players launching the full game the first time before any settings files are created to make sure the demo saves don't overwrite any full game saves
• Added stockpile support for charcoal, pebbles, and a new extra large stockpile added for thin trunks
• Added new game preferences storage system, currently saving whichever game customization options you set when starting a new game so that it will be re-shown the next time you try to start another custom difficulty game
• Added "kill" item action for live rabbits in your inventory

• Updated credits for character modelling
• Removed "experimental" from third-person control mode, it's fairly stable now!

New Features

Character customization

Game customization

Fishing with fish traps

Bows and arrows

Melee/ranged toggle for spears

Ability to pick up creatures

Other Additions/Changes

• Added selection outline brightness option
• Reworked player melee attack collision detection to be a lot more forgiving, factoring in highlight of enemies into the attack rather than always checking directly in front of the player character
• Added quiver container that only stores arrows, must be equipped on the belt to be able to provide the bow attack interaction with arrows
• Added long plank wall
• Increase support beam connection distance slightly to allow one more snap-to-grid position
• Added character outline to main inventory window with (currently unused) new chest, legs and feet slots

Fixes

• Added detection of controller inputs at the start of the game that you can now turn off, in cases where controllers were added unwanted input like navigating up throughout the menus
• Fixed crafting recipes with multiple output items not preserving input condition percent properly