Hey Everyone, 

Here’s our first big update! This week we’ve worked on a mixture of new features, bug fixes and optimization. 

Please continue to post your bug reports and feedback in the Discussions area of the Community Hub or send them in to [email protected]. 

• Sharks 
  
• Simple raft now buildable via book (No Sail yet!) 
  
• Walls can now snap to form floors and roofs (experimental, can defy gravity) 
  
• New suprise item added to yacht 
  
• When being knocked out for first time you will now wake up in a random cave 
  
• Lowered fall damage amount 
  
• Birds can be killed with fire 
  
• Stamina recharge now takes longer 
  
• You can now block attacks with the red plane axe by holding down right mouse button 
  
• Timmy taken scene a little more dramatic, better lighting, sparks 
  
• Lowered intensity and range of fire light 
  
• Lowered health on turtle 
  
• Improved fish movement 
  
• Increased range of lighter 
  
• Enemies will drag downed friends out of danger again 
  
• Females will sometimes freak out at dying family members

• Improved load times 
  
• Reduced stutter 
  
• Overall performance increases 
  
• Big memory optimizations, should help crashing on some pc’s 
  
• Improved cave wall memory usage 
  
• Dropped sticks and rocks are now pooled and shouldn’t increase memory over time 
  
• Optimized hud rendering (10% faster on cpu)

• Improved lake water swim zones 
  
• Ocean swim zones now correctly rise and fall with tide 
  
• Underwater visuals improved 
  
• Improved terrain in some areas, reduced lumpiness in rocky area, fixed issues with caves poking through terrain 
  
• Fixed super deep ponds that could kill players by falling into them 
  
• Small old boat collision added 
  
• Plane exterior collision added 
  
• Improved balance on some grass textures (less bright) 
  
• Lowered top heavy pine tree to be easier to cut 
  
• Lots of small material/texture tweaks 
  
• Sunset/sunrise made brighter 
  
• Beach cave entrances made bigger and easier to enter 
  
• Improved world collision in some areas 
  
• Improved low resolution mountain textures 
  
• Improved terrain rendering and missing specular 
  
• improved cave lighting and details (caves 4,5)

• Fixed countdown timer not taking different time zones into account 
  
• Fixed some spelling mistakes in tutorials and in survival book 
  
• Fixed shelter on fire spawning infinite logs 
  
• Fixed bug where day count was 1 more than it should be 
  
• Fixed issue where sticks,rocks and logs needed could go to -1 
  
• Fixed not switching back to default weapon after holding lizard, rabbit or fish 
  
• Fixed player not colliding with things tagged ‘Prop’ 
  
• Fixed light leaking into parts of some caves 
  
• Fixed bug where you couldn’t cook multiple times on same campfire 
  
• Fixed spear being able to cut down trees 
  
• Fixed ponds flickering at certain distances 
  
• Fixed some items not being saved in inventory when game is loaded (some might still vanish, expect more saving fixes/improvements soon) 
  
• Fixed log holder not saving logs on load/save 
  
• Fixed twinberries not having eat icon and having wrong leaf texture 
  
• Fixed bloody tables in cave not being cut out of nav mesh 
  
• Fixed lizard and rabbit skin triggers not being connected to ragdoll body 
  
• Removed extra set of teeth and eyes appearing behind Timmy 
  
• Chopping dead bodies no longer results in player flying into the air 
  
• Animals no longer spawn multiple copies if on fire 
  
• Cannibals shouldn’t run underwater or follow player out to the boat (they might run a little bit into water however) 
  
• Fixed some bushes missing vertex colors when cut 
  
• Fixed birds landing in sky, improved bird a.i. and performance