Sharks, rafts, roofs and bug fixes - v0.02

Hey Everyone,

Here's our first big update! This week we've worked on a mixture of new features, bug fixes and optimization.

Please continue to post your bug reports and feedback in the Discussions area of the Community Hub or send them in to [email protected].

 

Version 0.02 Changelog (Saved games from 0.01 won't work with this version)

New features and gameplay tweaks:
  • Sharks

  • Simple raft now buildable via book (No Sail yet!)

  • Walls can now snap to form floors and roofs (experimental, can defy gravity)

  • New suprise item added to yacht

  • When being knocked out for first time you will now wake up in a random cave

  • Lowered fall damage amount

  • Birds can be killed with fire

  • Stamina recharge now takes longer

  • You can now block attacks with the red plane axe by holding down right mouse button

  • Timmy taken scene a little more dramatic, better lighting, sparks

  • Lowered intensity and range of fire light

  • Lowered health on turtle

  • Improved fish movement

  • Increased range of lighter
  • Enemies will drag downed friends out of danger again

  • Females will sometimes freak out at dying family members

Performance:

  • Improved load times

  • Reduced stutter

  • Overall performance increases

  • Big memory optimizations, should help crashing on some pc's

  • Improved cave wall memory usage

  • Dropped sticks and rocks are now pooled and shouldn't increase memory over time

  • Optimized hud rendering (10% faster on cpu)

World:

  • Improved lake water swim zones

  • Ocean swim zones now correctly rise and fall with tide

  • Underwater visuals improved

  • Improved terrain in some areas, reduced lumpiness in rocky area, fixed issues with caves poking through terrain

  • Fixed super deep ponds that could kill players by falling into them

  • Small old boat collision added

  • Plane exterior collision added

  • Improved balance on some grass textures (less bright)

  • Lowered top heavy pine tree to be easier to cut

  • Lots of small material/texture tweaks

  • Sunset/sunrise made brighter

  • Beach cave entrances made bigger and easier to enter

  • Improved world collision in some areas

  • Improved low resolution mountain textures

  • Improved terrain rendering and missing specular

  • Improved cave lighting and details (caves 4,5)

Bugs:

  • Fixed countdown timer not taking different time zones into account

  • Fixed some spelling mistakes in tutorials and in survival book

  • Fixed shelter on fire spawning infinite logs

  • Fixed bug where day count was 1 more than it should be

  • Fixed issue where sticks,rocks and logs needed could go to -1

  • Fixed not switching back to default weapon after holding lizard, rabbit or fish

  • fixed player not colliding with things tagged 'Prop'

  • fixed light leaking into parts of some caves

  • Fixed bug where you couldn't cook multiple times on same campfire

  • Fixed spear being able to cut down trees

  • Fixed ponds flickering at certain distances

  • Fixed some items not being saved in inventory when game is loaded (some might still vanish, expect more saving fixes/improvements soon)

  • Fixed log holder not saving logs on load/save

  • Fixed twinberries not having eat icon and having wrong leaf texture

  • Fixed bloody tables in cave not being cut out of nav mesh

  • Fixed lizard and rabbit skin triggers not being connected to ragdoll body

  • Removed extra set of teeth and eyes appearing behind Timmy

  • Chopping dead bodies no longer results in player flying into the air

  • Animals no longer spawn multiple copies if on fire

  • Cannibals shouldn't run underwater or follow player out to the boat (they might run a little bit into water however)

  • Fixed some bushes missing vertex colors when cut

  • Fixed birds landing in sky, improved bird a.i. and performance

V0.68c

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Here is a hotfix to a few additional issues that came up in last weeks v0.68 release

V0.68b hotfix

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For the full list of yesterday's v0.68 patch notes, please visit:

V0.68

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V0.67c - hotfix

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Here is a hotfix to a few issues that came up in the 0.67 release last thursday.

V0.67b hotfix

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For the full list of today's v0.67 patch notes, please visit:

http://steamcommunity.com/games/242760/announcements/detail/1473097867082161532

V0.67

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This patch adds a new weapon holder type. This can be built by placing the weapon display structure on the ground instead of on a wall, and once built can be used to show off your favourite weapon.

V0.66

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V0.65b

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Here's a small hotfix fixing two issues in yesterday's 0.65 patch release.

V0.65

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V0.64

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For this patch we added a first pass of achievements, this includes 45 so far. These should all be unlockable currently in single player, however a couple may not be fully activated in multiplayer games just yet.