04 Sep 2023Developer post

v1.1.1: Enhanced Audio, Interaction Settings, and Crucial Bug Fixes

🆕 New Features Added SFX on food digested when eaten (on half the duration) Added SFX on food expired when eaten (on total duration end) Added sleep SFX Light torch from any fire Added names to wiki handcrafting See distance (LOD) limited to 200 Added grip sensitivity setting Ad

01 Aug 2023Developer post

v1.1.0: Official Release Steam and AppLab

🆕 New Features Added item spawn menu in creative mode Added quick slot on secondary button press (3 tools) Added shelf and removed chest Building material requirements have been reduced. Breaking a build now returns all materials Added auto item place in build. If you're buildin

🆕 New Features

Added item spawn menu in creative mode
Added quick slot on secondary button press (3 tools)
Added shelf and removed chest
Building material requirements have been reduced. Breaking a build now returns all materials
Added auto item place in build. If you're building a wooden floor and have small planks in your backpack, they will automatically go inside the build on place
Reduced boar follow distance
Added sleep text next to bed sleep icon
Dagger sliding in crafts now consumed durability
Bow pulling now consumes stamina
Improved animal forward occlusion which will allow them to move better
Day and night cycle increased from 30 to 60 IRL minutes. Day is 40 and night is 20 minutes.
Cooked potato is now not plantable
Pouch containing dirt can now be used as dirt to terraform
Added light to campfire
Backpack item loading is now instant
Improved night and day lighting
Added ascension ground stone line to ascension island
Block range was changed slightly
Added wiki smelting
Tanning rack is now easier to use
Added display rack build
Added tool rack build
Added procedurally in the world
small shrine that lights the way
Added auto trigger checkbox to sawbuck
Improved sawbuck trigger detection
Improved bronze hammer hit detection
Added light to smelter

🔥 Bug Fixes

Fixed Tuskan plays boar death SFX
Fixed backpack store item SFX incorrect position
Fixed cloud ambiance audio
Fixed slider SFX
Fixed SFX playing on load
Fixed achievement SFX
Added dragon footstep SFX
Added portal passive SFX
Added crafting SFX
Hair and beard now load correctly
Fixed sand has square lines
Fixed pickaxe craft allows to grab pickaxe head before completion
Same type food but different state now don't stack in the same pouch (ex. raw meat doesn't combine in a pouch with cooked meat)
Fixed bug where boar death SFX would play on reload
Fixed bug where dead player could pick up items (spooky)
Fixed bug where sew could be canceled after completion to return the materials and keep the product (duplication)
Fixed floating items near spawn and other locations
Autosaving in Homestead disabled
Test and demo saves now don't show in selection
Fixed teal screen on start (shaders loading)
Fixed pouch and shelf items disappear when out of range load
Fixed player in air after dirt place near

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31 Jul 2023Developer post

Official Game Release

Hey everyone! After 2 years of active development, we finally released the game. I hope everyone has fun in the game! We will continue to develop the game further, bringing you an even more fun experience. For feature requests and bug reports, please join our community on Discord

17 Jul 2023Developer post

Patch 1.0.2: Stacks, Torches, Better Lighting

🆕 New Features Added handcrafting SFX Added ambiance when high in air Added sleeping dragon SFX Added achievement SFX Added SFX on spawn gem place Changed stone hit VFX; changed tree hit VFX Added fog Changed terrain textures from 1K to 2K; added normals Increased sun intensity

26 Jun 2023Developer post

Patch 1.0.1: Better Standalone Performance, Ascension

🆕 New Features Wiki has been enhanced with more panels Animal SFX have been improved Building SFX added Added SFX to sled and cart Enhanced tree SFX Backpack SFX improved Boosted standalone performance by 70%+ Replaced stone dagger handcraft with craft Increased stone drop rate

19 Jun 2023Developer post

Patch 0.3.9: Wooden shield, Updated Demo

🆕 New Features Brand new updated demo for the Next Fest! It features a small island and early game Backpack items are now much easier to grab Added wooden shield and craft Health healing is now based on food with base regen of 1 hp per 10 seconds Backpack slot now goes red if it

08 Jun 2023Developer post

🎯 Next Fest Closed Beta Playthrough & Release Date Announcement

Join us on this Demo live stream and chat! We will announce the release date of the game. We will also be showing you the full game including: - Large island - Smithing - More animals - More bosses - More sewing

08 Jun 2023Developer post

🎯 Next Fest Demo Playthrough

Join us on this Demo live stream! We will be showing you the whole demo experience and chat.

03 Jun 2023Developer post

Patch 0.3.8: Epic Bosses Update

Notice: Please backup your saves before playing. 🆕 New Features Tuskan is now a big boar and lives in a cave Antleran is now a big pointy stag. It lives in a cavern Fangan has been added as a big scary wolf. Beware of its pack Added shield icon to both hands to indicate if block

27 May 2023Developer post

Patch 0.3.7: Farming Update

🆕 New Features Added planting system Added potato item and plant (can be cooked for extra stat bonus) Added carrot item and plant Increase chance to drop more saplings from trees Added wooden hoe Wooden hoe can convert ground to farmable soil that is required for plants Broadlea

22 May 2023Developer post

Next Fest & Release Date

Greetings, premortals! 👋 We will be attending Steam's Next Fest on 19th June. During this period we will announce the release date of the game. Wishlist to get notified!

20 May 2023Developer post

v0.3.6: Realistic Weapon Swinging

🆕 New Features Jump has been moved to the primary button of the right hand Sprint has been moved to up axis of right hand joystick Grabbable items can now be inspected. Text appears with important info about the item such as durability. Inspect also works when holding an item an

🆕 New Features

Jump has been moved to the primary button of the right hand
Sprint has been moved to up axis of right hand joystick
Grabbable items can now be inspected. Text appears with important info about the item such as durability. Inspect also works when holding an item and pointing hand palm towards face.
Crafts and sews now refund used items on cancel
Metal look improved
Tools damage balanced. Every tool now does max damage. For example wooden axe does 50, bone axe does 100, and bronze axe does 150. The dealt damage depends on the swing velocity.
Changed center of gravity for all tools to reflect realistic weights.
Some achievements hidden before boss defeated
Quadruped NPCs drops balanced
Crucible now saves metal on load
Anvil break materials now refund only a log
Loading screen now moves smoothly with headset orientation
Improved stone sparks direction
Added veins toggle in settings
Added HP bars toggle in settings
Currently placing build is now being indicated by a white dot for easier differentiation from other builds
Added credits to menu book
Sewing table is now smaller
Heated ore now does damage when grabbed (it burns!)
Bronze ingot can now be smelted. Notice that 5 sticks can help with forging it but 6 sticks will smelt it
Damage text now shows as big red for critical (head), white for normal damage (body), and small gray for for legs and arms
Saving time has been improved from 1.2s to 0.2s
Build distance reduced from 10 m to 5 m
Interacting with books distance has been reduced (UI)
Placing some builds such as the crafting table now follows the orientation of the ground. Use wood and stone floors to make it upright or find flat ground on the terrain
Added/changed sound effects

🔥 Bug Fixes

Backpack now disappears immediately on release
Arrow no longer hits arrow
Boss statues sometimes loaded a head when it wasn't inserted
Copper ore now doesn't roll away too far
Branch now doesn't appear white in the distance
Dead deer no longer makes dying sound on load
Removed cube from wolf head (oops)
Shovel no longer digs with handle

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13 May 2023Developer post

v0.3.4: Training Dummy & Storages

🆕 New Features Added training dummy build Added small and big storage builds Added LOD distance setting Animal heads are now smaller Reduced grab distance to 0 Improved door handling Removed burp sound on finish eating Improved item spawn from animals Added more grabbing points

06 May 2023Developer post

Build v0.3.3: Quests, cart, and sled

🆕 New Features Added UI and Player sound effects Drastically improved build performance for many builds Improved world loading Food times and values have been balanced Bow craft now shows after Tuskan gem placed Added save/load for held items Added notification on game save HUD

29 Apr 2023Developer post

v0.3.2: Regular Update

* New Features - Removed pocket slots - New crafts/builds/sews are now unlocked on gem place in spawn not on boss defeat - On gem place in spawn, a notification appears if new stuff is unlocked - Added falling animation if in air - Character head hidden to not get in player visio

* New Features
- Removed pocket slots
- New crafts/builds/sews are now unlocked on gem place in spawn not on boss defeat
- On gem place in spawn, a notification appears if new stuff is unlocked
- Added falling animation if in air
- Character head hidden to not get in player vision
- Metal visuals has been improved (bronze weapons)
- Bed sleep position improved
- Added seated height custom parameter to adjust height when seated. Improved automatic seated height detection
- Dynamic mining now always gets mined. Previously if the hit point was far from an edge, it didn't register
- Hands size now always the same in all heights
- Gem power now appears in handbook
- Tanning rack bottom stick disabled for accessibility
- Boars now spawn in forests too. Works only in new worlds
- Mouth collider is now bigger
- Digging now reduces durability of shovel
- Added stone hit sound effect
- Tanning reduced durability loss on dagger
- Removed swing stamina reduction
- Removed hand tiring (losing control of hands if swinging too hard)
- Made dynamic mining visual effects smaller to not get too much into face
- Stamina tired sound effect now is called only when stamina reaches 0
- Stamina drain reduced when running and jumping
- Homestead music volume lowered down
- Removed placing blueprint parts from a distance
- Hitting a forge now gives it only 1 heat instead of 5
- Added haptics to bow pulling
- Improved world loading time
- Increased boar spawn distance from spawn
- Chisel texturing improved
- Removed all colliders from hands when dead
- Removed tin vein near spawn
- Sun moves more frequently
- Hands will now collide with backpack and handbook less frequently
- Added option to add item to backpack quickly by releasing it over either shoulder
- Boss statue heads now save
- Build parts now save
- Added left hand pose for trigger button
- All tools now do damage to animals
- Throwing tools at animals now do damage
- Added water breath visual indicator
- Made world brighter and improved sun colors
- Improved HUD
- Running now works only when going forward
- Grabbing hot items now disabled. Grabbing only allowed if item is cool or with tongs
- When digging dirt now always spawns
- Creative mode now temporarily unlocks all crafts, builds and sews
- Distance grabbing items from the ground increased from 1.5m to 2m
- Improved left hand pointers (build, ui)
- Build complete message now shows
- Increased stamina and health regeneration
- Bow now doesn't shoot arrow if pull is weak
- Backpack can now be placed in front by pressing the trigger
- Backpack and handbook moved to shoulders
- Tanning rack now saves placed hide
- Leather item made thicker
- Improved reed LOD
- Added message when backpack is full or incompatible item is selected
- Dynamic mining drop rate changed to volume based

* Bug Fixes
- Fixed copper ore stops heating when player goes far away and comes back
- Fixed eating food when a consumed food is in half life
- Fixed when selecting menu and grab item, can't use thumbstick
- Fixed handbook falling down on grab
- Fixed smelter, anvil and quench tank LODs
- Tin ingot now smelts into Tin correctly
- Rabbit now doesn't clip into the ground when it dies
- Fixed items not falling down when digging ground under them
- Homestead world name under 3 characters validation now shows
- Fixed bug where tree did damage to player after it has fallen down
- Fixed bug where transparent materials were colored incorrectly
- Backpack items position, rotation and scale fixed
- Fixed bug where the terrain would update incorrectly at start
- Fixed bug where rabbit meat cooked moved the time from the tooltip on consumed food hover
- Fixed bug where chest items were visible but couldn't get picked up
- Fixed bug where two bronze ingots could have not get heated at the same time in the smelter
- Fixed bug where jumping while dead still produced a sound
- Keyboard now hides when exiting dialog in homestead
- Fixed bug where loaded item in backpack would not behave accordingly when picked up
- Fixed bug where going back to homestead caused an error
- Fixed scroll flicker in handbook
- Fixed bug where mining with stone axe gave no stone
- Fixed bug where sometimes liquid metal from ingots went under the smelter surface
- Fixed bug where placing a gem in spawn on the first world session and selecting it, gave no power

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22 Apr 2023Developer post

v0.3.1: Regular Update

* New Features - Increased performance on most used builds - Tanning rack hide save/load added - Cooking stand meat save/load added - Builds can now be placed on other blueprint builds (not yet finished builds) - Bow has been reworked - Added seated setting for when you are playi

14 Apr 2023Developer post

🔨 Smithing Update Has Arrived!

* New Features - Added tin ore vein that generates near water. It can be mined to get tin ore - Added copper ore vein that generates in deep forest. It can be mined to get copper ore - All boulders and veins now can be mined dynamically - change the object's shape as you hit it -

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* New Features
- Added tin ore vein that generates near water. It can be mined to get tin ore
- Added copper ore vein that generates in deep forest. It can be mined to get copper ore
- All boulders and veins now can be mined dynamically - change the object's shape as you hit it
- Improved game lighting and shadows
- Added wolf that spawns in deep forest. Be careful, it bites!
- Added wolf boss (3rd boss) portal that is currently sealed because the boss is on vacation
- Added clay deposits in deep forest. They can dug with a shovel to get clay
- Added new build Smelter. It can be used to smelt ore into ingots. Mixing copper and tin makes bronze
- Added new item Clay Crucible. It can be used to transport liquid metal (like copper). It can be used to mix together copper and tin to make bronze in ratio 8:2
- Added new item Clay Ingot Mold that can be used to create ingots
- Added simple ingots: copper and tin. These are only placeholders for now because they don't have any use. They also can't be smelted back to liquid yet
- Added complex ingot bronze, which can be hammered into a different shape. It has volumetric properties and can be used on the anvil
- Added Wooden Tongs craft. They can be used to hold any object but are meant to be used with hot ingots
- Added new build Anvil. It can be cast from bronze and allows forging of bronze tools
- Added new tools: Bronze Axe, Dagger, Hammer, Pickaxe, Shovel, and Sword. All tools except the sword are next tier after bone, which means they have better durability and do more damage. The sword can be forged but is only a placeholder for now as it doesn't do damage. This will change in future updates
- Added Quench Tank build. The finished forge can be quenched inside this tank to produce the final tool item
- Added wolf meat, hide, head
- Ores and wood now have max burn value after which they disappear
- Improved world and character upgrade system
- Improved save/load of data. More statuses will be added to the saves in the future

* Bug Fixes
- Fixed bug which prevented placing builds on top of each other

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25 Mar 2023Developer post

v0.2.146 Regular Update

🆕 New Functionality - Trees have been changed for new models. Tree chopping functionality has been improved. The tree can now also do damage to the player if it drops on top of them - Auto save added. Default value is 10 minutes. The player can adjust it in the menu book. It can

🆕 New Functionality

- Trees have been changed for new models. Tree chopping functionality has been improved. The tree can now also do damage to the player if it drops on top of them
- Auto save added. Default value is 10 minutes. The player can adjust it in the menu book. It can also be turned off or set to a maximum value of 120 minutes
- Equipped armor now saves
- Equipped pocket tools now save
- Can scroll UI with thumbstick and moving and turning is disabled
- Disabled 'Back to Homestead' button when dead in Homestead
- Items now not rolling away from player
- Wiki has been changed and extra controls have been added. Will add more info there in later versions
- The day-night system has been enabled. Each day-night cycle is 60 minutes. You can elapse time with the bed
- The bed build has been enabled and can be now used. When the player clicks on the icon, they can sleep. The time elapses faster and the player wakes up in the morning. The respawn point is also set to the last bed the player has slept on
- Added rabbit, boar and deer sounds effects
- Branches can now be broken into sticks in the sawbuck
- New build has been added - the chest. Save your items in this extra storage. Only backpack items are compatible with the chest. I will add tool and wood racks in later versions
- Rabbits, boars and deers now don't roll away
- When canceling a craft, the craft now resets and the used items are lost
- Sawbuck menu enhanced with available input items
- Sound effects are now pooled which makes them start immediately
- Added sound effect to stick to twigs break

🐛 Bug Fixes

- Fixed bug where the player couldn't climb stairs
- Fixed bug where the boar head coulnd't be grabbed from a distance
- Fixed bug where sound effect played for boulder destruction when there was none
- Fixed unbuilt floor on load game
- Fixed hands flickering when walking on any build
- Fixed bug where when crafting the stone pickaxe, the stone could be put first
- Saved meat now loads correctly as cooked or burnt
- Distance building bugs have been fixed
- Fixed regular table having 4 extra branch requirements
- Fixed bug where handcraft items could be combined in the backpack
- Fixed bug where the world and player names in the Menu book were empty when going back to Homestead
- Fixed bug where some sticks in the tanning rack build were not transparent on place
- Fixed crafting table tooltip being blank
- Fixed bug where placing dirt moved boulders, trees and builds up
- Fixed bug where stealth eye remained open after boar dies
- Fixed bug where loaded big planks didn't work in the sawbuck
- Fixed bug where objects went through the terrain. An object can still clip if it's moving fast. If it does, you can wait for a bit for it to get teleported to the surface
- Fixed bug where a loaded sapling is 100 times bigger
- Fixed bug where a single item could be used in two separate builds

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18 Mar 2023Developer post

v0.2.145 Regular Update

🆕 New Functionality - Added icons to Handbook stats - Added tooltips to stats by suggestion of Lifeinsteps - Added Handbook and Backpack right hand grabbing poses - Removed break build binding from primary button on right hand (A on Quest 2). Can now only access from Handbook Bu

🆕 New Functionality

- Added icons to Handbook stats
- Added tooltips to stats by suggestion of Lifeinsteps
- Added Handbook and Backpack right hand grabbing poses
- Removed break build binding from primary button on right hand (A on Quest 2). Can now only access from Handbook Builds menu
- Added binding to primary button on left hand to open the Menu book since Valve Index doesn’t have a menu button like Quest 2
- When building, the later parts are now almost invisible to let the player focus on the current order and not try to build later parts (legs of a table before the top)
- By suggestion of ChibiArcher I made the tooltip (the window that shows up when you go over a craft) not clip through the book
- Left hand has been made equal to the right hand. Everything you can do with the right hand, you can now do with the left hand: interact with UI, pick up objects from a distance, build, break build, place dirt.
- Reduced hand grab distance from 20 cm to 15 cm (the near grab not the distance grab)
- Crouch eye now opens when the player is detected by animals and bosses
- Added health bars to animals
- Slight change in the stone dagger model
- Added grab hand poses to all tools
- Added inverted grab to all tools (can grab both ways, rogues rejoice!)
- Consumed food removed floating point from timer and added minutes/seconds
- Added jump sound effect
- Disabled stamina hud by suggestion of JustFrosty
- Disabled distance item placement for crafts
- Arrow craft improved: slide is 60% easier; added indicator; reset craft on cancel; fixed white spots
- Improved performance on standalone devices by a lot (Quest, Quest 2, Quest Pro)
- Changed ocean shader a bit
- Added virtual keyboard. You can now name your characters and worlds the way you want and play the same seed as your friend
- Optimized the Homestead
- Added panting sound effect when under 20% stamina

🔥 Bug Fixes

- Fixed hand offsets
- When let go of object it now correctly goes into the world (it was attached to the backpack before)
- Backpack items now drop on death spot not where you last opened the backpack
- When picking item from backpack if another item is near, it gets picked up too but scale stays the same
- Pocket slots now only store tools and not items
- Improved Handbook, Backpack and pocket slots interaction
- Fixed bug where the player couldn’t put items in the backpack after it was released from the right hand
- Fixed bug where picking items without distance grab caused items to be stuck in the air and move weird
- Fixed a bug where the damage canvas was interactable
- Bone shovel can now dig
- Removed a fun bug where the player could use a shovel to fly around
- Removed loading screen artifacts
- Fixed bug where player’s HP is exactly 0 but player doesn’t die, and consequent errors

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06 Mar 2023Developer post

Closed Beta and Free Demo Start 13th March

We are most excited to announce the Closed Beta Release next week! You will also be able to play our Free Demo. Join our newsletter at and we will send you your free key when the demo is available!

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