Animal Husbandry Overhaul, Auto Grappling Hook, and Major Quality-of-Life Improvements

Dear Conductors,

This update brings new production facilities, animal system upgrades, fishing optimizations, and a host of gameplay improvements.

We’ve added useful new equipment such as the Auto Grappling Hook and Butchering Table, while completely overhauling animal pens to make livestock farming a fuller experience.

This update also improves multiplayer stability, resource interactions, sleeping, controller support, and many other details.

Thank you for your continued feedback as we keep improving OxyRail.

New content

🪝 New Item: Auto Grappling Hook

Added the new Tier 2 item “Auto Grappling Hook”.

After use:

• Once charged, it automatically searches for nearby resources

• Automatically retrieves small wood pieces, small stones, and gold, iron, and copper ore chunks

• Stores collected resources in its built-in inventory

Specifications:

• Search range: 12 meters

• Automatically select the nearest resource with an unobstructed route

• Stores up to 5 charges

• Each launch consumes 1 charge

• Open the device at any time to view or retrieve resources

It is available in the first half of the Tier 2 tech tree, so it can be unlocked early.

🔪 New Item: Butchering Table

Added the new Tier 3 Butchering Table.

Usage:

Place a whole fish, pig, cow, or sheep on the Butchering Table to automatically process it into usable ingredients and by-products.

Processing time:

• 10 seconds per item

• No fuel required

• No power supply required

Output:

Pig:

• Raw Boar Meat

• Bone

• Fur

Cow:

• Beef

• Bone

• fur

Sheep:

• Mutton

• Bone

• wool

📦 Item Model and Texture Upgrades

Improved the appearance of several items:

Updated:

• Large Storage Chest texture

• Shelf texture

• Rain Collector texture

• Small Oxygen Tank model and texture

• Medium Oxygen Tank model and texture

• Small Storage Chest model and texture

At the same time:

• Removed excess grime from shelf surfaces

• Improved visual consistency across items

⛽ New item: Fuel

Added a new fuel type: Fuel.

Features:

• Provides 100 seconds of burning time

• An efficient fuel option

How to obtain:

• Crafted from 10 Animal Fat

At the same time:

New Bandit Shop trade:

• Trade 1 bottle of Fuel for 1 Oxygen Coin

🐟 Fish Tank System Upgrade

Improved fish tank breeding rules.

Adjustment:

• The fish tank now needs to be fed with seeds

• When there is insufficient feed, the fish will stop growing and breeding

• The more fish, the faster the feed is consumed

Consumption rules:

• At 6 fish, the consumption rate is the same as that of the chicken coop

• When the quantity is small, the consumption speed is reduced proportionally

• An empty fish tank will not consume feed

New:

The fish tank status interface now displays:

• Current feed amount

• Hungry status indicator

• Well-fed status indicator

🐄 Complete Animal Pen Overhaul

The animal husbandry system has been completely reworked.

New:

Each animal now has:

• Independent growth status

• Individual mood value

• Changes in growth stages

Growth rules:

• Animals grow when there is food in the fence

• Growth pauses after running out of food

• Continue to grow after supplementing food

After the animal is returned to the enclosure:

• Growth level retained

• Mood is preserved

• Appearance status retained

Fence adjustment:

• Maximum 3 animals per pen

• Interacting with a pen or animal opens the pen interface

• Animals are put in and taken out through the inventory

Interaction:

• Point to a single animal to pet it individually

• When feeding any animal with food in hand, the food is shared by the entire pen

Adult animal produce:

Adult pig:

• animal fats

Adult sheep:

• wool

Adult cattle:

• Milk

At the same time:

Whenever wool, milk, or Animal Fat is successfully produced:

• There is a 1/3 chance to receive additional Manure

Resource drop adjustments:

Juvenile animals:

• Drop half the normal resources, rounded up

Adult animals:

Pig:

• Raw Pork ×2

• Bone ×1

• Fur ×1

Sheep:

• Mutton ×2

• Bone ×1

• Wool ×2

Cow:

• Beef ×2

• Bone ×1

• Fur ×1

Animal pens in saves from earlier versions are automatically compatible with the new system.

🎣 Fishing Improvements

Fixed:

• Fixed the problem that the fish obtained by fishing may display 0 KG

Now:

• Minimum weight for all fish is 1 KG

• The Fish King will also generate weight normally

Optimization:

• When a fish truly bites and splashes, a matching water sound now plays

• Improved bite feedback

Fixed:

• Fixed fishing occasionally getting stuck after the final check

• Fixed network instability causing characters to become locked in the fishing interface

New:

During fishing:

• Press Esc or the controller Back button to exit

• Opening another interface or switching equipment now ends fishing normally

🛠️ Fixes and Improvements

🌱 Plant and Resource Interactions

Fixed:

• Cutting down a mature tree in a planter now always returns 1 seed of the same type

Optimization:

• Added a swaying effect when chopping trees in planters

• The effect is synchronized for other players

🛏️ Sleeping Improvements

Adjustment:

• Corrected character sleeping positions

• Prevented characters from covering pillows, clipping, or floating

• Adjusted sleeping bag height

Now:

Beds and sleeping bags placed in different directions will maintain the correct lying position.

🏪 Shop Improvements

Adjustment:

"Buy All" now requires a second confirmation.

Process:

First click:

• The button changes to "Confirm"

Second click:

• Complete purchase

Prevents accidental spending of all Oxygen Coins.

🔨 Building and Gathering Improvements

Fixed:

• Fixed shovel animations and progress becoming desynchronized while holding the input to dig sand or dirt piles.

Now:

Each shovel strike now matches:

• Action feedback

• Mound changes

• Collection progress

Improved continuous digging.

🎒 Item Stacking Improvements

Fixed:

Fixed picked-up resources not stacking with matching items in expanded backpack slots.

Now:

• Prioritize merging existing item stacks

• Reduce wasted backpack space

🌐 Multiplayer Interaction Fixes

Fixed:

• Fixed fish not being consumed when placed in a fish tank

• Fixed possible item duplication when feeding animals, placing eggs, or sowing seeds.

• Fixed multiplayer latency causing incorrect results when pouring, collecting, or using water.

Optimization:

When:

• The operation was rejected by the server

• The target is already full

Items deducted in advance will be automatically returned.

💧 Drinking From Containers

Fixed:

Fixed water being wasted when drinking from a held container.

Now:

• Consume only the amount of water actually needed

• Cannot drink when the thirst meter is full

• No water is removed from the container

⚙️ Other fixes

Fixed:

• Fixed the hand-cranked engine only being interactable through its main body and not its crank.

• Fixed several untranslated text issues

Optimization:

• Improved the animal poise system

• Multiple hits within the same second now count as one attack for this system, while all damage is still applied normally.

Fixed:

• Fixed rapid attacks with chainsaws or drills preventing animals from fighting back normally.

💬 Thank you all for your support and feedback

Thank you to every train conductor who boarded "OxyRail"! 🚂

Whether it’s sharing your gaming experience, making suggestions, or helping us identify problems, your feedback helps us continue to improve this train.

We’ll keep improving the game to bring you a more stable and enjoyable exploration experience.

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Every genuine review and suggestion helps more players discover this journey and supports us as we improve the game and develop more content.

Of course, if you think the game has shortcomings, you are more than welcome to tell us your thoughts.

We read every piece of feedback carefully and will continue to improve.

Thank you to every Conductor for joining OxyRail on this journey. 🌱🚂

We look forward to traveling toward an even brighter future with you!

—— OxyRail Development Team 🚂