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Eating from plants can drop berries onto the ground. Eating from trees can drop pods onto the ground. Eating from dinosaurs can drop meat chunks on the ground. Eating from these treats gives a substantial amount of growth points. (50x the normal amount of growth given by the sour
Greetings! Today we have a new set of updates to the game I'd like to announce. New: Skin Color Patterns have been added to the game. Now you can select a skin color pattern and when you shed skin your colors will morph towards those colors. More patterns to come in the future. I
Greetings! Today we have a new update for the game. Here you'll find the patch notes for the update. New: Player dinosaurs can now shed their skin and change their skin colors. Look for the "Shed Skin" button on the Skin tab of the tab menu. The player can now slide while sprinti
Multiplayer mode has been added to the game and a game server is available for players to join! Your dead dinosaurs can now be revived after a certain amount of time passes after their death. The amount of time is based off the dinosaur's size category, with larger dinosaurs requ
Reduced a set of lag spikes that occurred with the player. Reduced the amount of system memory the game uses from around 19gb down to around 9gb. Weather sounds are once again controlled by the weather volume slider. Fixed some cases of dinosaurs blinking in and out of visibility
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The huge Pangaea map is once again getting worked on and is being tested. Its playable, but not in a completed state. (Missing vegetation and decorations such as boulders and rocks) Removed the territory restrictions on spawning dinosaurs. This means you'll see more species and l
Hey everyone! Here is a list of all of the updates that have been released since the last patch notes! Also of note your dinosaur's growth rate requirements have changed and in order to grow you'll need to meet certain dietary requirements. To gain any growth in the Hatchling sta
Hey everyone! Here are the patch notes for all of the updates that have went live in small unannounced patches since the last posted update. Important: I realized that I made the wrong decision when I dampened the accumulated growth of your creatures after reaching the adult stag
Good news everyone, A new major update, Patch 2026.3.4.1.4 is now available. Switched from the High Definition Rendering Pipeline to the Universal Rendering Pipeline and gained 2x to 3x more performance. The drawback from this change was that the game's ram usage went up. Switche
Good news everyone, Patch 2026.2.13.1.0 is now available. Toned down the wind for the trees, plants, and grass. Increased the brightness slightly. Regenerated the UVs on all grass, plants, and most trees for improved visuals! A couple of trees had too many vertices to recreate th
Good news everyone, Patch 2026.1.31.1.0 is now available. The Therizinosaurus has a new model, animations, and skin textures.
Good news everyone, Patch 2026.1.17.0.0 is now available. Updated the Unity Engine version to 6.3.4f1. Updated various 3rd party systems.
Good news everyone, Patch 2025.9.24.0.42 is now available. The game now uses terrain streaming to load in smaller chunks of terrain around the camera and then lower detail mesh representations of terrain further away from the camera to save memory. This reduces the detail level o
Good news everyone, Patch 2025.9.24.0.18 is now available. Your dinosaur now has basic nutrient needs that once filled will result in an additional diet ranking level being granted. These are gained from eating your general dietary needs. Having more gastroliths in your digestive
Good news everyone, Patch 2025.9.24.0.0 is now available. A new playable species, the gigantoraptor, has been added to the game. The oviraptor now uses the same model as the gigantoraptor, minus the extra feathers that the gigantoraptor has. Dinosaurs stop moving right before the
Good news everyone, Patch 2025.9.9.0.29 is now available. Fixed gastrolith eating sounds not playing when they should be. Aerial dinosaurs have new sounds for eating bones. Wild dinosaurs are no longer pulling flesh off bones. Fish are no longer sticking far out of the water whil
The default branch moves over to the new Legacy public branch for compatibility with older computers. The Evolution branch moves over to the default branch to give new users a better experience unless they need to manually switch over to the Legacy branch.
Hey everyone, Patch 2025.9.9.0.25 is now available on the Evolution Public Branch. There is now a new land carcass model and texture, and it also has a bones-only version that appears when the carcass's remaining flesh is less than or equal to 25% of its maximum flesh. There are
Hey everyone, Patch 2025.9.9.0.21 is now available on the Evolution Public Branch. A new playable species, the deinosuchus, has been added to the game! Aerial dinosaurs have new beak-attack sounds, one sound per size category. Aerial dinosaurs now have their own eating sounds, on