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Steam News11 July 20261mo ago

Update 0.9.4 drops for playtesting!

This update introduces the Research Station and Blueprints, a crafting revamp, new vehicle, and a whole lot more! Let us know what you think and tag us when you've got something fun to show us!

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addedThis update introduces the Research Station and Blueprints, a crafting revamp, new vehicle, and a whole lot more! Let us know what you think and tag us when you've got something fun to show us! Thank you so much for your feedback and support so far, and we hope you will like this update!
added🎮 NEW FEATURES 🎮🔍 Brand-new Research Station! Crafting has been completely revamped with a new progression system.
added❄️ GENERAL ❄️✅ Completely new snow system! We recreated the snow from scratch to make it look better while significantly improving performance.
added❄️ GENERAL ❄️✅ 2 new skins for good and excellent gloves
changed❄️ GENERAL ❄️✅ Increased the amount of Organic materials that can be found throughout the world.
changed❄️ GENERAL ❄️✅ Reduced the amount of fuel found in abandoned vehicles

Arctic Drive changes

addedThis update introduces the Research Station and Blueprints, a crafting revamp, new vehicle, and a whole lot more! Let us know what you think and tag us when you've got something fun to show us! Thank you so much for your feedback and support so far, and we hope you will like this update!
added🔍 Brand-new Research Station! Crafting has been completely revamped with a new progression system.
added✅ Completely new snow system! We recreated the snow from scratch to make it look better while significantly improving performance.
added✅ 2 new skins for good and excellent gloves
changed✅ Increased the amount of Organic materials that can be found throughout the world.

This update introduces the Research Station and Blueprints, a crafting revamp, new vehicle, and a whole lot more! Let us know what you think and tag us when you've got something fun to show us! Thank you so much for your feedback and support so far, and we hope you will like this update!

🎮 NEW FEATURES 🎮

🔍 Brand-new Research Station! Crafting has been completely revamped with a new progression system.

🗞️ Bring a Blueprint to the Research Station to permanently unlock the recipe of an item. When this run ends, this item recipe will be saved.

🧠 Learn how to craft items across six categories:

  • Vehicles

  • Decorations

  • Food

  • Meds

  • Clothing

  • Tools

🚗 NEW VEHICLE 🚗

✅ Meet the N100-2S! A compact 2-seater version of the N100-4S, perfect for smaller expeditions and efficient road trips.

❄️ GENERAL ❄️

✅ Completely new snow system! We recreated the snow from scratch to make it look better while significantly improving performance.

✅ 2 new skins for good and excellent gloves

✅ There is now a bit of snow on the road. Y'all be careful alright?

✅ Increased the amount of Organic materials that can be found throughout the world.

✅ Reduced the amount of fuel found in abandoned vehicles

✅ New POIs

✅ New environment water container: Water Cooler! Careful though, it's not always water in there.

✅ Hundreds of fixes and improvements of POIs, items, cars and trailers

Join our Discord channel to hang out with the team and other players :) >> https://discord.gg/EXj93BR9fB

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Steam News / 11 July 2026

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