Optimization & Quality of Life

Skål, Vikings!

Today's update is all about the overall health of the game. We’ve been reading through your feedback and digging directly into your bug reports. As a result, this patch is entirely focused on optimization, stability, and squashing those frustrating inventory issues.

Here is everything included in today's patch:

Optimization and Performance

• Slashed the overall game size by 4 GB to free up some space on your drive.

• Boosted framerates by roughly 5 to 10 percent. You will feel this improvement the most if you are playing on Low or Medium settings.

• Improved general network stability and addressed rare co-op disconnects.

World and Gameplay

• Added a shooting range to the hub alongside new target models.

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  Added small flax fields and clusters in logical locations, such as near water sources and on sunlit hills.

• Fixed the remaining issues preventing the proper placement of furnaces, campfires, and fireplaces inside of your houses.

• Both Cinematic Blur and Film Grain are now disabled by default. Please double-check your graphical settings and turn them off again if they accidentally switched on after the update.

• Brought back the option to use Directional combat attacks in the control settings.

Inventory and Item Fixes

• Fixed torches continuously losing durability and spamming your screen with the "Broken" notification when using other tools.

• Fixed an issue where item durability would decrease simply by swapping slots in your inventory.

• Resolved a bug that prevented unequipped items from moving or dropping from your bags if you currently had another tool equipped in your hotbar.

• Fixed weapons disappearing from your hands when dropped or swapped.

• Fixed berries, mushrooms, and other non-breakable items incorrectly showing up as broken when used.

• Implemented a tentative fix for newly crafted weapons breaking from a single hit. We will continue monitoring this.

General Bug Fixes

• Player corpses will now correctly display your actual character name instead of your Steam account name.

• Freed the bots that were getting permanently stuck in place around the spawn and hub areas.

• Fixed rugs being indestructible.

• Addressed the mysterious orange screen issue. It should be gone now. If you still encounter it, disabling Film Grain and Cinematic Blur should act as a workaround.

• Fixed a rare bug where the pause menu would get completely stuck when returning from the options screen.

• Prevented characters from actively attacking in the background while you are navigating the settings menu in co-op.

Huge thanks for all the reports. Enjoy the smoother gameplay, and we’ll see you out there!

Skål!

Blackrose Arts