Hey everyone,

This patch adds a new boss battle along with a new cutscene to the end of the game, as well as drivable golf carts, a rifle which can be found in one of the caves, frogs that sit on lily pads and chirp, the ability to chop heads off dead animals and use them as wall decorations, a bunch of stone building improvements and lots more for the full list check below.

We’ve also added our first pass at dedicated servers, for detailed instructions on how to set up and host a dedicated server check out our guide here:

Dedicated Server Guide

As always, please continue to post your bug reports and feedback in the Discussions area of the Community Hub.




Features

New end boss battle and cutscene
Dedicated servers
Drivable golf carts
Rifle
Decorative frogs
Animal head trophies
Stone doorways, struts, windows and pillar detached placement
New stone holder structure
Window shutters
Updated environment on East side of the map with more streams, waterfalls, lakes, ponds, cannibal villages, rope bridges and more
Some new story note pickups added
Dirty/clean water system added



Improvements

Stones now apply damage to things when thrown
You can now attach stones or any length of log to ziplines rather than just full logs
A held relocated structure is now thrown if the player opens their inventory
Added new cat food visual
Wall shelves can now store cooking pots
Kelvin can now finish building stone fireplaces
Improved look of burning sticks material
Improved look of boiling water
Improved performance of trees in winter
Improved stone/rock text localization
Cannibal winter clothes now burn when the bodies are burned
"Collected" and "added to backpack" text when picking up items is now localized
Added LOD support so that items in storage holders will disable when far away
Fixed issue with armor pieces on shelves having expensive scaled mesh colliders
Adjusted some duck landing spots on water that were over land
Repairing floors no longer re-orders its planks
Disassembling a Custom Effigy now takes the limb you are targeting instead of the last limb added
It should now be easier to place furniture in crowded areas
Improved player on fire visuals
Added an idle variation to ducks and increased their drinking and eating rate when on lakes
Added new stone building tutorials to book
Added some small cannibal camps to cave D
Light bulbs can now be used from the grab bag and can be added to shelves
Player can no longer perform interactions when aiming their weapon
Player can no longer open their inventory right at the same time that they trigger a hatch or security door interaction
Fish on spears will now fall off when the spear is put away or thrown
Set armor racks to only allow a single user to interact with them at a time
Added some hot springs to some mountain areas
Dismemberment blood splat optimized
Visual fixes for cave entrances : shimmering density, seeing through entrance from distance
Improved lava impact visual
Setup stone beam & pillar electric wire elements
Pillar detached placement now works with any combination of log quarters or stones



Balance

Drinking dirty water will now cause a small amount of health damage, boil water or collect in rain collector for clean water
Added custom game setting to allow players to toggle the pausing of the world sim when in inventory
Pausing in inventory now defaults to false in hard survival
Demon boss reduced health and damage it delivers. Some attacks have longer cooldown and increased it’s damage against structures
Added additional ammo and health pickups to corridor before gold room
Added rifle ammo chance to ammo cases
Doubled strength of stone structures
Gold Armor now reduces incoming non-demonic damage by 30%



Fixes

Fixed Knight V’s and gliders vanishing in some save games
Improved and fixed most cases of artifacts caused by having too many built lights
Improved weather occlusion and added a quality option that can be turned up if needed to fix issues of occlusion visually breaking
Fix demon boss in overworld rescaling during some attack animations
Fix for idle heavy male cannibal audio being audible from far away
Removed deprecated option to place wire on standing stick
Fixed pillars placed at the corner of two connected stone beams shifting if a stone is removed from one of those beams
Fixed incomplete stone beams allowing removal of sibling beams supporting a pillar
Fixed dismantling first stone from a complete stone beam not cleaning up links to supported structures until the last stone was removed
Fixed stone fake pillars remaining on when disassembling a grounded stone Beam in a specific order
Fixed stones allowed to be added to quarter log pillars
Fixed using a repair tool on a second story leaning beam causing it to clip into the pillar its leaning against in a specific context
Tweaked stone beam visual so lightbulb fits under it
Fixed placing a strut underneath a tarp causing the tarp to collapse
Fixed dismantling and replacing ramps resulting in broken weather occlusion for those tiles until game was reloaded
Improved weather occlusion inside of the beached yachts
Fixed being able to remove a pillar supporting a strutted beam if there was a linked beam with a strut on the other end
Fixed cut pillar calculations sometimes preventing cutting a half log high pillar into a quarter log high pillar
Fixed invalid linking issue when adding a pillar bellow a beam that connects a pillar to a wall
Fixed various small building issues with struts and beams
Fixed being allowed to cut pillars that are supporting furniture
Skinned animals now have head removed
Fix player sometimes stuck sliding on ground while in knocked down state
Fix "Take Item" Kelvin order causing player to try to equip previous item before opening grab bag
Fixed placing a beam between two pillars with a full wall underneath not linking that beam with those pillars properly, which resulted in a beam impossible to dismantle while it has sibling beams linked to it
Fixed half log spawned when cutting window sometimes staying stuck in the wall
Fixed second stick placement failing when building a fire in a stone fireplace
Fixed error spam when placing a leaning beam on beams supported by a wall in some context which would prevent the beam placement
Fixed stone fireplaces getting destroyed too easily
Fixed struts broken off of a structure not spawning a pickup
Fixed picking up a held item while holding multiple stones causing player to only drop one stone pick up
Fixed error spam on multiplayer client side any time a trigger touched a log pickup
Fixed placing door not orienting it as the inside towards the player consistently
Fixed stone structures not affected visually by snow and wetness occlusion volumes
Fixed Defensive Wall Gate handles changing orientation when repaired
Fixed cooking pots not always having the correct stew after save load
Fixed adding the the first item to a storage holder being difficult in some cases
Fixed issues with the cooking pot loosing its recipe in certain situations
Fixed issue in multiplayer where the cooking pots current volume on the fire was not being updated when another player takes liquid from it
Fixed pots with stew turning into water when moved from one fire to another
Fix for erroring when trying to pickup any item that is a volume container but does not have a recipe
Fix for empty cooking pots getting destroyed when a campfire burns out completely
Fixed issue where dumping out the flask or cooking pot would also dump out the other if the other had been equipped before going into the inventory
Fixed issue with shelves where some spots on shelves would not save properly
Fixed standing fire UI interaction positioned too high
Fix for getting into a broken state if the player tries to open the guide book when in inventory
Fixed issue with multiplayer clients not being able to send objects on ziplines in both directions
Fixed Kelvin sometimes able to get pickups far out of reach
Fixed ducks sometimes getting interrupted while going to lake
Fixed some activation and render distance inconsistencies on enemies and animals
Fixed bug where it was possible to skin animals or creepies through collision
In peaceful mode, villages will no longer have a chance to get covered in creepy spittle
Chair inside bunker food will no longer show up in the inventory view
Fix for having to look away from the zipline for its interaction UI to update
Filling a held pot with stew that’s on the fire will now look like the correct stew
Fix for opening inventory when the waiting for sleep interaction is active getting player into a bad state
Fix for being able to eat from pot and light fire at the same time when loading into a game that had a cooked pot on an unlit fire
Amount of stew remaining in a pot on a fire is now synced across multiplayer clients
Fix for sometimes getting into a bad state with held items when equipping previously held item at the same time as performing another action like eating
Fix for ziplines not getting destroyed when attached to trees that are not LOD 0 or other destructible world objects that are not trees
Fixed missing visuals for one of the mushroom pickups
Fix for boiling audio continuing to play if the fire that an active cooking pot is sitting on is destroyed
Fixed cooking not always taking the satisfied recipe that has the most ingredients
Fixed sporadic collision on laptops after they have been broken



Audio

Added all the missing mouseover and pickup events (Action Camera, seeds, lightbulb heads)
Updated distances on flare audio attenuation and tuned levels
Impact sound effects are now also triggered when they hit other pickups so that a pile of pickups would make sound