Monthly Patch: July 2026

This month is a little light on content as we've spent a good chunk of time diagnosing and working on a number of micro optimizations. The hope is that these micro optimizations add up for folks (especially on the lower end of our system requirements). We are working on a few more performance optimizations which we hope to have ready within the coming weeks!

Updates:

• Added +Mental Damage to King's Potions.

• Increased Stoneclaw Scorpion spawns in Gimstone Canyon.

• Increased Stonecoat Extractors, Menders, and Seekers in Grimstone Canyon.

• Increased the drop rate of the tablet for the Alchemy quest.

• Removed redundant "Cloth" name in some outfitter recipes.

• Sentinel Weaken no longer requires combat stance.

• Updated to the latest Unity subversion. This includes minor bug fixes and performance updates.

• Improved visual stability of a number of props when using any dynamic resolution option. If you continue to notice specific props "shimmering" please send us a /report so I can get them fixed!

• Adjusted Halt VFX visuals.

Fixes:

• Fixed Hearth VFX not lasting for the full 60 seconds for non-subscribers.

• Fixed missing Mandrake and Silk naming for crafted cloth.

• Fixed missing "Summit" prefix for some log types.

• Fixed spelling error on Revenant's Reaver.

• Fixed Copperhead placeholder not being marked correctly.

• Fixed color on normal scale vambraces.

• Fixed a potential exception in the crafting UI that could stop a craft.

• Fixed some exceptions on IKControllers during tear down.

• Fixed a long standing motion vectors vegetation shader bug on macOS and Linux.

Performance Improvements

• Adjusted compilation flags for macOS and Linux binaries to improve speed and stability.

• Updated macOS and Linux to both use instanced indirect for vegetation rendering.

• Reduced mesh complexity of grass to reduce gpu strain.

• Reduced grass density across the board by 20%.

• Unified grass LOD distance for all biomes and all scenes.

• Different quality settings now clamp which vegetation LODs are allowed to render shadows. In other words: lower quality settings result in fewer far range vegetation rendering shadows freeing up cpu and gpu time.

• Removed a number of obsolete shaders from the build freeing up vram.

• Removed vegetation masks on all collectable resources. This should significantly reduce the amount of vegetation flickering seen at dawn and dusk.

• All tree imposters (far distance) are now rendered with instanced batching. This can free up a significant chunk of cpu time in tree heavy scenes such as Redshore / Freehold.

  • We are currently in the midst of implementing gpu occlusion culling for the vegetation system which is looking to claw back another good chunk of cpu/gpu time. Unfortunately, it didn't make it in time for the patch; hopefully it will be ready at some point August. In other words: more perf optimizations to come!