Bi-Weekly build 11-06-2025

Survival Mode

• Get your bearings! A new tutorial NPC, Decker, spawns near the player.

• Added carpentry workbench which can be used to craft base-building items. Release your inner decorator!

Procedural Generation

• General tuning pass to reduce excessive POIs and overabundant loot chests, and to make better use of beach and underwater spawning; don your diving helmets!

• Clay appears much more frequently in the world.

• Improved placement for many POIs.

• Adjusted monster levels in many POIs to more accurately reflect their respective biome difficulties.

• Improved copper and iron ore POIs.

• AddedBogAdded pumpkin patches and a new tower.
• AddedGrasslandsAdded new mimic variants and a kiln.
• AddedBarrensAdded a new boss arena, as well as new rubbish dumps and a kiln.
• AddedSnowAdded new supply sheds.
• AddedOceanAdded many new watercraft POIs.

Monsters

• Take aim! Headshots do 150% damage, and can interrupt a monster's attack.

• Monster footsteps are now more audible.

• Fixed some cases where a monster would interrupt its behavior when attacked.

• Monsters will immediately de-aggro when there are no more targets, stop hunting when aggro is zero, and remove target when it dies.

• Fixed a bug in hitscan attacks where a monster would automatically miss because they moved.

• Improved monster navigation when in the ocean.

• Monsters now play idle sounds when not aggro.

• Mossbeard Treeant is now much more formidable with higher HP, attack range, and speed.

• The Red Roc bird is now a bit easier to fight.

• The Gun Skeleton has been tuned and has new animations and sound effects.

• Mush Man and Monster Mush enemies now feature a new distinct voice.

Multiplayer

• Monster player damage scales 15% with every extra player.

• Improved network bandwidth and monster sync.

• Players can now set their nickname.

• Other players' dots will be drawn on the compass on top of other dots and at 125% size.

• Player names are no longer rendered on the map.

Editor

• Fixed a group select bug where selecting an object that is already part of a group would not include all other objects in that group.

• Fixed group select bug where objects/entities may end up in multiple groups.

• Action editor search now finds all matching conditions and effects too.

• Show the number of matching items in the "Find Item" UI.

Tutorials & Campaign

• Lifton's Rest has been overhauled to support new glove functionality, as well as adding visual, narrative, and gameplay improvements.

• Grotto, Zen Garden, Old Wayland Ruins, and Great Basin Temple have been updated and had fixes to correct for recent gameplay tweaks.

General

• New main menu UI with buttons instead of tabs.

• Weak weapons now break fewer blocks in the environment, while strong ones break more.

• You can now pin crafting recipes as part of your quest list.

• Repair tool now highlights repairable items in a building plan.

• HUD shows when you have more health than your current max health.

• Fixed crash caused by holding objects with gloves during savegame.

• Fixed bug where objects would delay falling for a long time.

• New bloodied bag drops when NPCs are killed, replacing a debug asset.

• Armor recipes have been updated to better support survival gameplay.

• Added new crate harvestables which leave behind the empty crate.