Version 3.86 beta released - opt-into at will

Version 3.86 has reached the beta stage and is now available as a beta-branch you can opt-into at will. Instructions on how to do it will be explained below in a separate chapter, so read on.

Assuming no serious showstoppers are found we're anticipating to come up with stable version within few weeks time. You can find full changelog at the end of this post, and here's brief summary about the most notable additions in this version - let's go!

New trees and tree species for slender trunks

There's quite a lot being done regarding trees and lumber. There are now aspen added as a completely new tree species, and young birch now also appear in addition to grown birch trees. The tree species now gets derived into felled slender tree trunks and this affects to crafting as preferred slender trunk species may vary depending on what you're making.

Lots of deciduous trees, including the newly added aspens, can be spotted here. Our character has also felled a good sortiment of different species of slender and big trunks for crafting purposes.

Portion based cooking and birch-bark pots

It's now possible to cook multiple portions of certain recipes. This is convenient as you can cook a full pot if need be, or use fewer amount of ingredients to cook only a single portion if that suits the situation better. There is also a completely new cooking vessel, birch-bark pot, which is a craftable alternative to an iron pot and practical solution for cooking in the wild. Birch-bark pot has its limits but can be used for cooking all the boiling based recipes ie. soups, herbal beverages or blanching mushrooms.

Our character is going to prepare two portions of porridge in his decent birch-bark pot.

Preserved meat in cookery

There are four new cookery recipes to utilize smoked and dried meat or fish in the cooking. Moreover, salted meat or fish can be now also used in cooking as an alternative to raw meat/fish.

For example the fish soup can be now made of any type of fish - be it raw or preserved.

More pausable crafting and separate menu for modded handcrafts

Craftable items in "Transport" category are now all pausable tasks, with some adjustments to crafting times and required materials. There's also separate menu added for player modded items, to keep them separated (at will) from the original [M]ake menu.

How to opt-into 3.86 beta

• First, quit the game if you were playing it.

• Right-click UnReal World in your Steam Library, and select Properties from the drop-down menu.

• Click BETAS and you'll see a dialog where to enter beta access code.

• The access code for this release is urwversion386b Type in the access code and press Check Code button.

• Selection to Opt into 3.86 (beta) appears. Click it, the update starts, and you've got it!

Should you encounter showstopping problems with this beta version just go back to BETAS selection and choose None from Select the beta you would like to opt-into drop-down menu. This returns your game back to the previous stable version 3.85.

Changelog

Version 3.86 (beta) changelog ** Saved characters from version 3.80-> are compatible with this version. **

BETA NOTICE:

This is a beta release. There are likely bugs, things are still somewhat under construction, and some of the listed improvements will be tweaked and polished further in patches to follow.

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