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Steam News8 June 202628d ago

American Woodcock (and more new birds!)

Hello Birders! We've been hard at work on a new region map (we'll have more info soon!), but ahead of that we have a new update for you all.

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Full Flock Around update

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Repeated intro

Hello Birders! We've been hard at work on a new region map (we'll have more info soon!), but ahead of that we have a new update for you all. By popular demand, the American Woodcock (along with a few other birds) dances its way into Goose Lake!

What changed

6 fixes9 additions4 changes3 removals
  • Maps
  • Gameplay
  • Balance
  • Fixes
  • Performance
  • Store
addedHello Birders! We've been hard at work on a new region map (we'll have more info soon!), but ahead of that we have a new update for you all. By popular demand, the American Woodcock (along with a few other birds) dances its way into Goose Lake!
addedNEW BIRDS
added5 new birds have found their way into Goose Lake!
addedThere is now a new upgrade category called "Utility"
changedThere is now a Utility Upgrade that increases your hotbar capacity, up to 9 total slots!
changedWe also moved the Scrapbook Pages to Utility.

Flock Around changes

addedHello Birders! We've been hard at work on a new region map (we'll have more info soon!), but ahead of that we have a new update for you all. By popular demand, the American Woodcock (along with a few other birds) dances its way into Goose Lake!
addedNEW BIRDS
added5 new birds have found their way into Goose Lake!
addedThere is now a new upgrade category called "Utility"
changedThere is now a Utility Upgrade that increases your hotbar capacity, up to 9 total slots!

Patch 1.0.47

NEW BIRDS

  • 5 new birds have found their way into Goose Lake!

  • We've got: Black Chinned Hummingbird, Golden Eagle, Mourning Dove, Pileated Woodpecker, and the vagrant (but requested so often it would be silly NOT to include...) American Woodcock.

  • (spoiler on the last bird in the list): American Woodcock has a special animation for walking along the ground

Utility Upgrades

  • There is now a new upgrade category called "Utility"

  • There is now a Utility Upgrade that increases your hotbar capacity, up to 9 total slots!

  • We also moved the Scrapbook Pages to Utility.

  • This means you no longer need to max out Scrapbook Pages to get the Camera Upgrades achievement.

Fixes

  • Fixed layering bug in which shiny birds draw in front of thickets

  • Fix water shader foam (Thanks Green Fox!).

  • Re-enabled occlusion culling, which got disabled by accident. (Should not happen in the future)

  • Fixed navigation bug on Steam Deck that caused the settings menu to have a flickering tooltip and be un-navigable.

  • Fixed scrolling bug in inventory while using controller

  • Fixed texture mapping on some seed bags (icon should be more visible in shop/inventory)

  • Fixed occlusion culling bug at the end of the pier in Marsh.

Experimental Changes

  • Enabled Physics Interpolation, this should make the game feel smoother at very high framerates

  • We no longer use Steam Voice Chat, we now record your mic directly into the game. This SHOULD fix a microphone issues seen by a good chunk of players... hopefully.

  • We also have a gain slider now directly in-game to increase your microphone input volume.

Misc Changes

  • Increased max framerate to 240 (apparently some monitors go that high!)

  • Moved buttons in the settings to the bottom of the panel (ie: [c]Delete Old Photos[/c] is no longer at the very top)

  • Added a button in settings that behaves like [c]getlogs[/c] command to streamline bug reports.

  • Added a button in settings that behaves like [c]opensavedata[/c] command for the same reason

  • "Points of Interest" tab now has an index page.

  • Raised the price of Scrapbook Pages Upgrade

Source

Steam News / 8 June 2026

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