Nested Lands

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Released: Feb 25, 2026
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Last updated: 14 Sep 2026, 09:44 GMT

Updates & announcements

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15 Sep 2026Developer post
Update v.8.5.0
Greetings, Survivors! This big update introduces several highly requested features, including a functional minimap and temperature tracking, alongside essential performance optimizations and useful quality-of-life additions to your daily village management. 1. New Features &
Greetings, Survivors!
This big update introduces several highly requested features, including a functional minimap and temperature tracking, alongside essential performance optimizations and useful quality-of-life additions to your daily village management.
1. New Features & Interface
Navigating the world and monitoring your character's status is now much more intuitive.
Minimap System: Added a fully featured minimap to the HUD.
Displays icons for villagers, plague foci/nexus, quest areas, and the Village Center.
Includes extensive customization options: adjust opacity, toggle the border, change positioning, or disable it entirely.
Temperature Meter: Added a real-time temperature indicator to the UI, complete with a Celsius/Fahrenheit toggle in the options.
Ultrawide Support: Fixed camera FOV compression and pulled the camera back appropriately for ultrawide monitors. Menu backgrounds will no longer stretch incorrectly.
2. Village Management & Production
We have implemented significant improvements to how resources and priorities are handled within your settlement.
Production Storage Fallback: Crafting stations will now intelligently fall back to pulling resources from your Warehouse and Village Center chests.
Task Priorities: Introduced a 3-tier priority system for village production, allowing you to fine-tune what your workers focus on first. Added clear explanatory icons for each level.
Crematory Recovery: Cremators will now retrieve items from bodies and securely store them in a brand-new Crematory Chest, preventing lost loot.
3. Gameplay & Quality of Life
Quick Equip: You can now equip items picked up from the ground directly into empty slots. Additionally, pressing a quickslot key will no longer accidentally unequip your active item.
Loot Highlighting: Added a configurable pickup radius and a longer-range pickup dot to help you spot dropped loot more easily.
Quests: Added a new "Grab Quest From Board" task type. Improved the task numbering and text tracking for the "Follow Balder" quest.
Controls: The auto-walk feature will now cancel on its own the moment you interact with an object.
4. Performance Optimizations
We have dedicated a large part of this update to essential engine optimizations, resulting in a notably smoother framerate and improved memory usage.
CPU & Memory: Reduced the physics and navmesh calculation load per frame. Fixed memory allocations for object pooling and visual effects (such as blood on skin).
Background Logic: Fixed broken coroutine lifetimes, removed heavy background search loops, and capped village log entries to prevent memory buildup over long sessions.
UI Efficiency: Optimized how the stamina UI updates on your screen and fixed unsubscribed event handlers across multiple UI managers.
Stats during Dialogues: Players no longer take environmental damage from being cold while in an active dialogue, allowing players to read at their own pace.
5. Bug Fixes & Environment
Critical Fixes:
Fixed a soft-lock issue where a player could die during dialogue with Balder and become stuck.
Fixed a multiplayer bug where client players could get permanently stuck in a building animation.
Fixed an issue where items could go missing or salvage incorrectly if multiple stations were open simultaneously.
UI Overlaps: Item notifications, tooltips, and villager info panels will no longer hide behind the new minimap.
World Fixes:
Fixed rock/prop respawn colliders and resolved logic issues with the "Hunt rabbit" quest.
Repaired navmeshes (including increased navmesh size for wood fences to prevent stuck NPCs), adjusted tent and roof colliders, and fixed unlootable or floating storage props across various POIs.
Balance: Adjusted enemy repositioning across several areas, added/removed specific enemies for better encounter flow, and lowered the overall drop rates at Plague Sites.
Update the game, try out new functions and tell us what you think!
Thank you for your support and helping us make Norovellir great again!
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04 Sep 2026Developer post
Update 0.8.4.0 - Trader Caravan, Salvage Station and Hold to Collect Resources!
Greetings, survivors! A new update is ready for you to enjoy! We've added new structures and buildings, and the much requested "hold the button to harvest trees and stones" feature! New Features & Structures Added a brand new salvage station to the Builder’s Hut! You can now
Greetings, survivors!
A new update is ready for you to enjoy! We've added new structures and buildings, and the much requested "hold the button to harvest trees and stones" feature!
New Features & Structures
Added a brand new salvage station to the Builder’s Hut! You can now salvage old or unwanted equipment either individually or in bulk to reclaim valuable resources.
You can now build a Trader Caravan directly within your village!
Trader inventories are location-specific, providing new economic opportunities right at home.
Added a new "Continue" button to the main menu. This button will automatically resume your most recent valid profile, displaying both the player and world name for easy access.
Gameplay & Quality of Life
Give your fingers a rest! You can now hold the attack button to continuously harvest from trees and stone nodes.
Improved general gamepad/controller support across profile customization screens, salvage interactions, and tutorial videos.
Multiplayer & Synchronization
Improved synchronization for village production values and automated crafting animations.
Deeply synchronized collected items, chest interactions, and trader negotiations between the host and all clients.
Quests & Environment
Resolved issues that were preventing players from properly completing the "Fix the Boat" quest.
Cleansed Plague sites will now correctly stop displaying plague indicators and will permanently disable their connected Nexus camp spawners.
Fixed an issue where trees would sometimes incorrectly respawn directly on top of built Garden Beds. Fixed inconsistencies with farming craft times.
UI, Audio & Visual Fixes
Reduced the volume of the "New Game" intro audio sequence to a much more comfortable level.
Improved the 3D visuals of the Plague Mask.
Fixed item tooltip positioning issues across various screen resolutions.
Fixed an issue where chest contents could be lost when attempting to move a chest.
Resolved timing issues related to achievement unlocks.
Thank you for all of the feedback and reviews! New major update is already in the works and will be coming soon.
Stay safe from the Plague!
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31 Aug 2026Developer post
Nested Lands is joining the PvE Survival Crafting Fest With a 30% Sale!
Attention to all survivors! Nested Lands is joining the PvE Survival Crafting Fest — and we're bringing our biggest discount yet: 30% OFF! If you've been waiting to enter Norovellir, now's the perfect time to gather your friends, build your village, and survive the Plague togethe
20 Aug 2026Developer post
Update 0.8.3.0 - Multiplayer Improvements, Chest Filtering, Auto Walk and More!
Greetings, survivors! This major update brings a massive quality-of-life boost for multiplayer sessions: joining players can now actively manage the village and recruit villagers! We have also introduced a highly requested Chest Item Filter system, overhauled how the Plague Wind
Greetings, survivors!
This major update brings a massive quality-of-life boost for multiplayer sessions: joining players can now actively manage the village and recruit villagers!
We have also introduced a highly requested Chest Item Filter system, overhauled how the Plague Wind operates, and implemented a much-needed Auto Walk feature.
Multiplayer Village Management
Your friends can now fully participate in running the settlement!
Client players can now access the village management menus to recruit, dismiss, and change the professions of villagers.
To prevent conflicts, only one player can manage the village menus at a time.
New Features: Chest Filters & Auto Walk
You can now choose exactly which items a specific chest will accept!
Filters are fully saved, loaded, and synced in multiplayer.
Chests must keep at least one active filter, and to prevent lost items, filters cannot be changed while the chest currently contains items.
Give your thumbs a rest! We've added a new Auto Walk feature, complete with updated information in the gamepad options.
You can now completely re-customize your character and world directly from the profile selection screen.
Plague Wind Overhaul
The Plague Wind has been restructured to be a more consistent, threatening, and immersive event.
The Plague Wind now occurs exactly once every three in-game days.
If the Plague Wind starts while you are sleeping, your character will be woken up.
Sadly, you can no longer engage in casual conversation with villagers during an active Raid or Plague Wind.
Guards & NPC Combat AI
Village defenses have been buffed to better protect your hard-earned resources.
Significantly boosted guard awareness inside the village limits and raised their base health to make them much more effective defenders.
Guards will now apply the correct damage based on their specifically equipped bow. Furthermore, all NPC archers will now intelligently maintain a maximum distance from their targets rather than rushing in.
Improved general NPC engagement behaviors, enhanced their walking and running animations, and correctly loaded existing villagers' health data to reflect the new improved values.
Increased villagers’ maximum HP to improve Guard effectiveness. Already recruited guards must sleep to reach new HP maximum.
Balance Tuning & UI
Balanced Plague Nexus mechanics and increased the construction cost of the Apothecary's Hut.
Balanced the loot setups and drop rates for Plague Ash and Medicinal Root Seeds.
Rebalanced the Potion of Plague Resistance timer to account for the adjusted Plague Ash economy.
Adjusted the cold resistance values of various clothing items.
Improved hover visibility on Trader items. Updated General and Quests localization tables to fix various typos.
Bug Fixes
Multiplayer Fixes:
Fixed a critical issue where LAN clients would hang on the join screen due to a villager loading race condition.
Fixed an issue where clients loading into a transferred multiplayer world would mistakenly load as a new game (resetting quests).
Fixed clients incorrectly being able to recruit or attack peasants at Hamlets and Harvest Camps.
Gameplay Fixes:
Fixed loading screens getting stuck due to villagers missing their assigned homes.
Fixed a bug where a player's weapon would sometimes go missing after leaving the tutorial area.
Fixed an issue where engaged NPCs would completely ignore their attacker.
Fixed a null reference error that occurred if an NPC was killed while actively pulling a bow.
Fixed an issue preventing players from negotiating items with the Trader while using a controller.
Fixed structure UI showing incorrect durability immediately after finishing construction.
Environment & UI Fixes:
Fixed the Tavern roof collision.
Fixed controller focus disappearing after selecting or requesting a village wall upgrade.
Fixed toggleable objects related to the "Into the Darkness" quest.
Fixed the village bell interaction failing to reset its busy state.
Fixed the inventory toggle remaining active after closing the window.
Fixed incorrect item quantities displaying in the trader lists.
Big thanks for your feedback and reviews! We love reading them and adding changes that you are sending us. We've recently had a member of community provide us crucial feedback on multiplayer and we've already implemented the fixes in the game - huge thanks for this! We can't wait to see your reactions to the new multiplayer and the much requested improvements.

Stay safe from the Plague!
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13 Aug 2026Developer post
Norovellir Stories: Auriel, the Seer
Curious about the history behind the harsh world of Nested Lands? We’re starting a series of lore posts for you to delve deeper into the world of Norovellir. Auriel, the Seer A thousand years before the founding of the Kingdom of Sacner , there lived a man named Auriel, known tod
07 Aug 2026Developer post
Plague Update
Greetings, survivors! This major update introduces a thrilling new endgame loop: The Plague Nexus and Survivor Hamlets! Face off against the relentless Plague Champion, cleanse the corruption, and help survivors rebuild their homes to earn daily tributes. We’ve also brought many
Greetings, survivors!

This major update introduces a thrilling new endgame loop: The Plague Nexus and Survivor Hamlets! Face off against the relentless Plague Champion, cleanse the corruption, and help survivors rebuild their homes to earn daily tributes. We’ve also brought many additional fixes, polishing and other improvements in the Plague Update.
New Feature: The Plague Nexus
To destroy a Nexus, you must first locate and destroy its four connected "Shells" using an Axe or Pickaxe. Once the shells are broken, the Nexus itself must be burned away using Fire Arrows;
The Nexus is heavily guarded by Infected Savages and the imposing Plague Champion.
The Champion is relentless. If defeated while the Nexus is still active, they will kneel and begin regenerating their health. They will stay actively engaged during this process.
The Plague Champion can only be permanently killed by completely destroying the Nexus.
Conquering a Nexus grants access to a chest containing extremely rare loot. We've also introduced new items:
Plague Mask: A new piece of gear, which will play a major role in your adventures;
Potion of Plague Resistance: A new consumable to help you survive the corruption;
Plague Ash: A brand new resource. It will be up to you to discover its usage.
New Feature: Survivor Hamlets
Immediately after destroying a Plague Nexus, the area will transform into a Survivor Hamlet, and villagers will return to the settlement;
Players can visit the Hamlet's chest every day to collect a tribute of resources from the grateful survivors;
You can invest resources to upgrade the Hamlet! Upgrading changes the visual appearance of the settlement and permanently increases the amount of daily tribute you receive.
Combat Tuning
Sped up sword attack animations for a more fluid combat feel;
Widened the attack input buffer to cover the entire cooldown window, making combo chaining feel much more responsive and forgiving;
Iterated and adjusted the attack ranges for dagger and knife-wielding enemies;
Adjusted weapon damage values so Village Guards prioritize using melee weapons over ranged when appropriate.
Quality of Life & NPCs
Completely reworked Balder's dialog flow. We hope you are excited to see how much he grew since his first days in the plaguelands;
Added a subtle interactable highlight to killed animals to make them easier to spot and harvest;
Players using a gamepad/controller can now correctly see construction unlock requirements in the UI menus.
Player Respawn System
Players will now always correctly respawn in the village;
Re-armed area detectors upon respawn to ensure events trigger correctly;
The plague infection gauge will now properly reset on respawn;
Stopped plague whispers from continuing to play after a player has respawned;
Stopped the sprint state from surviving when entering combat mode.
Bug Fixes
General Fixes:
Fixed respawning issues for clients with existing saves.
Fixed hamlet chests not receiving items.
Fixed tutorial popup controller focusing on the wrong UI element.
Fixed raids spawning with only bandit archers.
Fixed an issue where the red bow reticle would open on common plague foci.
Environment & Spawns:
Fixed an invisible collider near the village center.
Hid leftover placeholder markers for the Village Wall rings.
Fixed the cinematic plague call trigger in the beginning area.
Fixed NPC positioning issues at the newly formed Hamlets.
Nexus camp spawn/despawn rings now correctly derive from the Nexus area itself.
Audio & Text:
Removed an erroneous voice line from the Nexus boss and cleaned up stray bandit voice lines playing on the Plague Champion.
Fixed player dialogue lines triggering incorrectly near Plague Sites.
Fixed an issue where NPC name suffixes were incorrectly accumulating on phraser keys.
Survival:
Fixed a bug where players were still receiving the "Cold" status effect despite wearing the full Winter armor set.
We hope you enjoy the Plague Update! There are many exciting new systems that will make your experience much more diverse and long-running, as we work on the last Island and the ending of the story. We are always excited to see your feedback and reviews — we read every review and every topic on Steam and other platforms — leave us yours!

Enjoy the update and stay safe!
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21 Jul 2026Developer post
Update 0.8.1.1 is live!
Greetings, Survivors! This major update introduces the highly anticipated Village Wall system to fortify your settlement, alongside the new Preserving Bin for food management. We've also added tons of quality-of-life features like "Hold to Collect," equipment comparison tooltips,
Greetings, Survivors!
This major update introduces the highly anticipated Village Wall system to fortify your settlement, alongside the new Preserving Bin for food management. We've also added tons of quality-of-life features like "Hold to Collect," equipment comparison tooltips, and significant improvements to the Pillory/Mercy systems!
Also, we are always collecting feedback from you through Steam, Discord, videos, and more. So, we added more improvements based on your input. Thank you. Keep it coming!
1. New Feature: Village Walls
Fortify your settlement with the new dynamic wall system!
Upgrades via Village Center: You can now construct and upgrade Village Walls directly through your Village Center.
Level Progression: The walls feature four distinct levels of visual and structural progression that scale alongside your overall Village Level Growth.
Management & Sync: The wall system is fully integrated into the village management menu, features proper save persistence, and is fully synchronized across multiplayer sessions.
2. Village Management & New Structures
Preserving Bin: Added a brand new constructible structure designed specifically to preserve food items and extend their shelf life.
Auto-Repair: Villagers assigned as workers to specific buildings will now automatically perform repairs on those structures.
Increased Production: Raised the maximum villager production output limit from 99 up to 300!
Smarter Gathering: Villagers will now proactively venture into safe areas just outside the Village Limits to collect resources.
New Recipes: Added several new crafting recipes to the Blacksmith’s Shop and the Apothecary’s Hut.
Personal Chest: Added a dedicated Personal Storage Chest inside the player's house.
3. Mercy System & Combat Tweaks
The Pillory and Mercy mechanics have been refined for better flow and multiplayer stability.
Interaction Changes: When an enemy begs for mercy, you can now Tap to free them (triggering the loot window) or Hold to arrest them and send them to the Pillory.
Loot Balance: Enemies successfully sent to the Pillory as prisoners will no longer drop their regular combat loot.
Multiplayer Sync: Fully synchronized all mercy and arrest actions for multiplayer clients.
Combat & AI:
Village Guards have received a damage buff and several animation fixes to make them more effective in raids.
Tweaked general enemy behavior, improved detection logic, and refined how enemy stun and taunt animations are handled.
Fixed a bug where enemies would awkwardly hover or slide toward the player from far away.
4. World, Environment & Economy
Resource Respawning: Trees and rocks in the North Plains now have proper respawn timers. We also significantly improved the respawn behavior of all destructible props to ensure perfect save file compatibility.
Item Decay: Introduced a new item decay time multiplier to better balance how quickly perishables spoil over time.
5. Quality of Life & UI
Hold to Collect: You can now hold the interact button to automatically gather all loose items in your immediate area!
Equipment Comparison: Hovering over gear in your inventory will now display a direct stat comparison against your currently equipped items.
Free Blueprint Rotation: Building blueprints can now be freely rotated for precise, unrestricted placement.
Cosmetic Toggles: Added new toggles in the Options menu to hide your character's Backpack and Head Item graphics.
Tutorial Toggle: Added a master toggle to turn off all tutorial pop-ups and related UI elements for veteran players.
Multiplayer Map: Map indicators in multiplayer now clearly display player names and distinct colors so you can easily track your friends.
Animation Fix: Fixed an issue where the torch graphic would remain visible while running with a drawn bow.
Localization: Continued updates and polish for UI text and localization.
Download the update and keep surviving!
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08 Jul 2026Developer post
How Your Feedback Evolved Nested Lands
Hello, survivors! We’ve always said that we love hearing your feedback and make improvements based on it. We are building Nested Lands not to just realise our vision for the game, but also to make it more enjoyable for our players. Let’s have a look at how Nested Lands changed an
Hello, survivors!

We’ve always said that we love hearing your feedback and make improvements based on it. We are building Nested Lands not to just realise our vision for the game, but also to make it more enjoyable for our players. Let’s have a look at how Nested Lands changed and evolved during Early Access. Nothing of this would have been possible without your sup[port and feedback — huge thanks for helping us make the game more enjoyable for everyone![/p]
Sleep improvements and sleep timers: we’ve changed how much energy you get when you sleep and added the possibility to pick sleep timers;
Did a huge balancing pass on the survival needs and added the ability to customise difficulty for the new players. Now you can adjust pretty much every aspect of your new save game: from how long it will take you to get hungry to how harsh the survival would be. Perfect for everyone, as you can tune the difficulty both up and down;
Lots of multiplayer improvements, including better stability, connectivity, PvP toggle if you want to have some fun with your friends, and more;
Buildings can be moved after you built them;
Saving System - we’ve added a way to save your game outside of your village and implemented an auto-save feature;
Controller improvements - we’ve done many improvements to the controller control scheme and support;
Improvements to the starting area - many people felt that starting area wasn’t worth exploring, so we’ve improved loot distribution across the starting island;
When your character dies, all your precious loot is now put in a neat backpack, waiting for you to come back and grab it;
We’ve improved the UI, added new quickslot keys and radial menu for the keyboard players;
We’ve added new map markers for Pyres (which provide protection from Plague Winds) and added new POIs;
Combat system was re-done and improved, with new animations, moves and combat patterns;
Villagers have a proper daily routine and engage in activities other than working and sleeping;
Quest board became way more noticeable and readable;
All of the villagers can gather resources and help others do their thing when they have a free moment;
Unstuck button - it was needed and here it is;
The trader got more stock for you to pick from. Just don’t ask where he got it…;
Several resources, such as cotton and coal, were suffering from low availability. We’ve done a big balancing pass on the recipe costs and how resources are spread through the world;
Day and night cycles did some shifts here and there and the average day time has become longer than before;
We’ve added new graphics options that were highly requested by the community - field of view, fog options, motion blur and others;
Many bugs were squashed and fixed.
There’s a lot more to come in the future as well! You can check our roadmap here View game page and we are working on bringing the updated terrain graphics soon. We are always listening to all of your feedback and making sure to incorporate it in the game. Nested Lands will continue evolving before the 1.0 release and beyond that too. We can’t wait to show you what we are cooking for the story and third island.
Stay safe in the plaguelands, Survivors!
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01 Jul 2026Developer post
Major Update 0.8.0.0 - Skill System!
Hi, survivors! Welcome to version 0.8.0.0! This major update introduces the long awaited Skill System , touching nearly every aspect of gameplay, alongside the brand new Pillory and prisoner management system. Without further ado, let's dig into it! New Feature: Skill System You
Hi, survivors!
Welcome to version 0.8.0.0! This major update introduces the long awaited Skill System, touching nearly every aspect of gameplay, alongside the brand new Pillory and prisoner management system. Without further ado, let's dig into it!
New Feature: Skill System
You will now earn XP and level up naturally by performing actions in the world, unlocking specific passive effects and bonuses;
The system has different points, with effects currently integrated into the following disciplines:
Combat & Ranged Combat
Crafting & Cooking
Farming & Forest Mastery
Medicine, Leadership, and Survival
Added dedicated UI views to easily track your skill levels, current XP progression, and the bonuses you have unlocked.
New Feature: The Pillory & Prisoners
You can now capture defeated enemies and put them on display in your village to boost morale! Here is a guide on how to use the new system:
How to Capture Prisoners:
First, construct a Pillory within your village boundaries (the blueprint recipe is available in-game);
Go to any Point of Interest and engage a group of enemies. When most of the group is defeated, the last surviving enemy has a chance to drop their weapons and beg for mercy, after they drop to low health (they will kneel down);
Approach the kneeling enemy. A new interaction prompt will appear allowing you to arrest them and send them directly to your village's Pillory;
The prisoner will appear locked in the Pillory.
Pillory Effects & Management:
Each Pillory holding an active prisoner grants a continuous happiness bonus to your villagers;
Prisoners will succumb and perish after approximately 50 in-game hours (~2 in-game days). You will need to periodically capture new prisoners to maintain your village's happiness bonus;
Known issue: Currently, deleting or moving a Pillory that contains a prisoner will leave the prisoner's model stuck at the original location. We are working on a fix for this in an upcoming hotfix.
Multiplayer & Player State Fixes
Implemented several fixes to improve NPC and player synchronization across the network, particularly focusing on keeping combat and movement animations aligned.
Fixed critical bugs related to the player respawn sequence.
Fixed a bug that occasionally caused players or their equipment to appear invisible to other clients.
Balance & Content Updates
Performed a wide-ranging balance pass adjusting various construction costs, crafting recipes, and underlying item data to ensure a smoother progression curve.
We hope you enjoy building up your character! Please leave your feedback and reviews - we make sure to read everything. It really helps us Nested Lands and make it a better game for everyone.

Stay safe!
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23 Jun 2026Developer post
Tell us about yourself!
All right, we're not spying on you. Probably. We'd love to learn more about our survivors: what games you enjoy, how you play Nested Lands, and what interests you beyond gaming. Your answers will help us create better content for the community — fewer random posts, more things yo
19 Jun 2026Developer post
Version 0.7.13.0 - PvP Support!
Hi, survivors! This update brings a highly requested feature to multiplayer: PVP support (well, friendly fire as we can say)! You can now choose to enable friendly fire and battle it out with your friends. We have also introduced a new loot mechanic for enemies who beg for mercy,
Hi, survivors!

This update brings a highly requested feature to multiplayer: PVP support (well, friendly fire as we can say)! You can now choose to enable friendly fire and battle it out with your friends. We have also introduced a new loot mechanic for enemies who beg for mercy, smoothed out combat animations, and fixed a critical physics bug causing entities to sink into the ground.
New Feature: Multiplayer PVP
Added a new Player vs. Player damage toggle to the multiplayer manager and room creation screen;
The lobby host has full authority over the PVP Damage Policy, meaning the host decides if friendly fire is enabled for the match;
Fully implemented and synchronized PVP hit detection for all weapon types: melee strikes, bow shots, and thrown spears;
Updated localization and UI positioning to cleanly accommodate the new PVP settings.
Combat & Enemy AI
Enemies who successfully beg for mercy will now drop a "Mercy Bag." This networked loot drop rewards players who choose to spare their foes and features hidden map icon behavior;
Significantly improved enemy attack animations across the board, specifically for one-handed weapons, shields, knives, and two-handed weapons;
Added a behavior graph safety check before an NPC initiates an attack, and ensured attack animation movement is strictly handled by the host to prevent multiplayer desyncs.
World & Physics Fixes
Fixed a major collision and physics issue that was causing players and animals to slowly sink into the ground;
Implemented a background fix to safely recover save data for village buildings that had become stuck in an invalid "repair" state;
Added the Fire Pyre Point of Interest (POI) to the world map.
Quality of Life & UI
Added a subtle interactable highlight to quest notes and board notes to make them easier to spot. The overall size of interactable highlights in the world has also been reduced to be less intrusive;
Added a new, distinct Fast Travel icon to the world map.
Thank you for your feedback! We love seeing your messages and reviews - we read every single one and take notes! You reviews greatly help us to shape the game and improve it so feel free to leave one.

Stay safe!
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12 Jun 2026Developer post
Update V.0.7.12.2
This update brings a new level of intelligence and atmosphere to your enemies. We've introduced nice voice and audio system improvements, given enemies the ability to investigate fallen allies, and improved how villagers manage themselves within your settlement. 1. Enemy AI &
This update brings a new level of intelligence and atmosphere to your enemies. We've introduced nice voice and audio system improvements, given enemies the ability to investigate fallen allies, and improved how villagers manage themselves within your settlement.
1. Enemy AI & Combat
Enemies are now much more aware of their surroundings and smarter during engagements.
Dead Body Investigation: Enemies will now actively notice and investigate the dead bodies of their allies! They will attempt to find the direction the attack came from and track the player.
Smart Retargeting: If an enemy gets stuck or cannot reach you during a ranged attack, they will intelligently retarget to other reachable foes rather than standing still.
Combat Animations: Improved the attack animations for knife and sword-wielding melee enemies to make strikes feel more fluid and natural.
Combat Stability: Fixed a bug causing null entries when updating the list of engaged enemies during complex fights.
2. Audio & Voice System Overhaul
We have completely restructured the underlying voice assets to create a unified, responsive audio system for the world.
Reactions & Barks: Enemies will now play context-specific voice lines when discovering dead allies.
Added ambient idle barks for enemies while they are patrolling their camps.
Faction Audio: Fully configured voice audio arrays for all main enemy types (Bandits, Soldiers, Priests).
Villager Voices: Enhanced villager voice variety, adding new contextual dialogue like sighs and attack shouts to make your settlement sound more alive.
3. Villagers & Village Management
Self-Equipping: Villagers will now periodically check village chests and automatically grab better gear for themselves! Keep those armories stocked.
Raid Scaling: Refactored the Raid system. The number of raiders that attack your settlement now correctly scales based on the total number of villagers you have.
The Plague: Fixed a major logic flaw in the plague system. Villagers who reach the "fully plagued" state will now correctly die instead of magically being healed.
Visual Fixes: Fixed a hilarious but unintended bug where villagers would go completely bald while washing in the wash huts.
4. Multiplayer & Synchronization
Defending Enemies: Fixed a desync issue where defending enemy behavior was not accurately replicated for client players.
Enemy Data: Corrected general enemy data syncing to ensure hosts and clients see the same combat states.
5. Fixes & Debug Tools
Visuals: Fixed an issue where the holstered dagger would clip through the male character model.
System Fixes: Fixed null references occurring in the body system (affecting animators, audios, and controllers).
Fixed an underlying issue with the item creation logic in loot setups.
Improved animation metadata and compiler configurations for better overall performance. Enjoy the changes and don't forget to share your impressions about the update!
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10 Jun 2026Developer post
Player Skills System — Coming Soon!
The long overdue player skills system is finally arriving in June, and it's something many of you have been asking for. Here's a short breakdown of what to expect. There will be 9 skills across three categories — Exploration, Combat, and Village — each with 10 levels to progress
05 Jun 2026Developer post
Update v0.7.12.1
Greetings, Survivors! This update brings a brand new dynamic to enemy combat: if they can't reach you, they will throw rocks! We have also significantly improved cross-island multiplayer syncing, refined stealth-kill audio, and added several quality-of-life visual fixes. Combat &
Greetings, Survivors!

This update brings a brand new dynamic to enemy combat: if they can't reach you, they will throw rocks! We have also significantly improved cross-island multiplayer syncing, refined stealth-kill audio, and added several quality-of-life visual fixes.
Combat & Enemy AI
Enemies have learned to deal with players trying to exploit unreachable high ground!
Ranged Retaliation: Enemies will now throw rocks at the player if they can't physically reach them.
Throwable rocks have dedicated collision detection and deal damage upon hit.
This new mechanic, including the throwing animations and the rock projectiles themselves, is fully synchronized across multiplayer sessions.
Archer Behavior: Fixed a bug where archers would continue shooting at their original target even after taking damage and intentionally changing targets.
Mobility: Stopped players from crouching while sprinting with a drawn bow.
Multiplayer & Synchronization
We've made exploring apart from your friends much more consistent with the new cross-island syncing logic.
Cross-Island Loot: Extended cross-island loot drops for client players to include all destructible props. Fallen trees and broken props will now correctly stay in their destroyed state for players on the other side of the map.
Map & POIs:
Fixed an issue where Point of Interest (POI) discovery was not syncing for clients.
Client players will now accurately see newly discovered POI icons appear on their map.
Optimized network traffic to sync only the data for newly discovered POIs.
Villager Syncing:
Synchronized the loaded inventories of villagers across the network.
Ensured client players can properly see the detailed information about recently recruited villagers.
Quest & Animation Fixes:
Fixed Balder's rotation appearing incorrectly for other players.
Fixed Balder randomly teleporting in multiplayer after completing the initial tutorial.
Corrected the two-handed weapon running animation on remote peers so it displays correctly for everyone.
Stealth & Audio
Stealth Syncing: Replicated stealth-kill voice lines and sound effects over the network. Your friends will now hear the associated audio when you pull off a stealth takedown.
Stealth Logic: Fixed a multiplayer desync by properly blocking stealth-kills if the targeted NPC had already detected the client player attempting the takedown.
Enemy Audio: Cleaned up enemy combat shouts and populated new specific voice clips for stealth takedowns to make ambushes feel more impactful.
Quality of Life & UI
Survival UI: The "Cold" status effect icon is now automatically hidden if your equipped armor fully neutralizes the current environmental cold.
Sleep Visuals:
Your character will now automatically exit the crouch state before sleeping to prevent hovering or incorrect bed heights.
Weapons are now properly hidden while sleeping and will display correctly upon waking up.
Hotbar Fix: Fixed an issue where the quick slots/hotbar would occasionally disappear after closing the Bug Reporter.
Character Visuals: Fixed off-screen rendering issues for inactive meshes when loading into the game.
Environment & Fixes
Navigation: Updated the navmesh obstacle settings for broken cages so enemies can walk around them correctly. Fixed navigation issues for some Bandit Cage Random Events.
Props & World: Fixed a floating tree in the Silent Forest and ensured the correct prefabs spawn in the Hostile Soldier Random Events.
That's all for now, folks! Update the game, enjoy the changes and may Gods protect you on your adventure!
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03 Jun 2026Developer post
New Roadmap: What We've Built and What’s to Come
Greetings, Survivors! We're past the halfway point on our journey to the game’s full release, and we wanted to take a moment to look back at everything we've implemented, share where we are right now, and give you a proper look at the road ahead. Pop a squat by the fire — there's
29 May 2026Developer post
Version 0.7.12: Combat Update and a Celebratory 15% Discount!
Hello, survivors! We are releasing the heavily requested combat update today! The whole mechanic has received a massive overhaul and we can't wait to see your feedback on it. To celebrate, we are launching a 15% discount for a week. Combat Overhaul: Posture, Parry & Shields C
Hello, survivors!

We are releasing the heavily requested combat update today! The whole mechanic has received a massive overhaul and we can't wait to see your feedback on it. To celebrate, we are launching a 15% discount for a week.
Combat Overhaul: Posture, Parry & Shields
Combat is no longer just about trading blows; it now requires timing, positioning, and stamina management.
Both the player and enemies now have Posture. Weapons and tools deal specific posture damage;
When an enemy's posture is broken, they will be stunned and drop their guard, leaving them open to attack. They receive a brief invincibility window to recover their balance afterward;
Added "Endurance" to NPCs so they no longer stagger infinitely with every single light hit;
You can now parry incoming attacks (including enemy kicks!);
A successful parry blocks full damage, triggers a brief slow-motion effect, resets the enemy's endurance, and plays a distinct sound;
After successive parries, surrounding unengaged enemies may decide to jump into the fight;
Shield Mechanics: Shields are now fully functional for both players and enemies.
Defending suppresses take-hit animations and stops stamina regeneration. Added material-specific block sounds (wood vs. metal);
Enemies (like Rogue Soldiers) can now carry and actively use shields to reduce incoming damage. They will drop their guard if unengaged or if their posture is broken.
Mobility & Combat Flow
We've removed several restrictions to make moving during combat feel much more fluid.
You can now sprint freely with melee weapons or a drawn bow without being forced into a slow walk or automatically sheathing your weapon. Aiming is smoothly cancelled if you begin to sprint;
Side dodges have been enabled and the animation frames decreased (from 40 to 20) for a much snappier, responsive evasion;
Stamina regeneration is now reduced while actively in combat. Attack cooldowns have been slightly increased to perfectly complement the new input buffering system;
Added fully synchronized stealth-kill for multiplayer.
Enemy AI & The "Mercy" System
Enemy encounters have been made more dynamic, with varied weapons and lifelike reactions.
Certain types of enemies now have a chance to drop their weapons, fall to their knees, and beg for mercy when their health drops below 35%;
Enemy attack range is now dynamically based on the weapon they are using;
Implemented new Greatsword-wielding enemies with custom animations and heavy attacks;
Unengaged enemies circling the fight now have a chance to taunt the player.
Multiplayer & Stability
Combat feels much heavier in multiplayer now. Take-hit visual effects (VFX) and spatialized audio (hurt voices, block sounds) are fully replicated to all peers;
We have completely overhauled how the game handles disconnects, timeouts, and lobby transitions to ensure you never get "stuck" when a network error occurs;
We've ironed out edge cases in the new disconnect Recovery Funnel;
Fixed infinite loading screens when a host returns to the main menu or loses cloud connection;
Implemented a centralized system to gracefully handle network drops;
Added strict stall timers for joining rooms, starting matches, and loading scenes. If a connection stalls, the game will now safely fall back to the Session Lobby or Main Menu rather than freezing;
Added dedicated popups for "Disconnecting," "Host Disconnected," and "Connection Timeouts" so you always know what happened to the session;
Fixed an issue where clients would fail to properly unstick and despawn on the host's end when returning to the main menu.
Village, World & UI
Harvesting AI: Revamped how harvestables are detected inside the village area. Fixed bugs preventing villagers from gathering reed fiber near the village lake, and resolved an issue where they ignored specific items in high-level villages;
Immersive Multiplayer Audio
You can now hear exactly what your friends are doing around you.
Consumable audio (eating, drinking, bandaging) and resource gathering (chopping wood, mining) are now fully replicated to peers with precise 3D positioning;
Synchronized ground layer data across the network. You will now hear the correct footstep material (dirt, wood, stone) when other players walk nearby;
Synchronized swimming strokes and jump splash audio to peers, with boosted volume and range for better feedback;
Synchronized bow drawing, arrow releases, and attack vocal cues to peers;
Broadcasted "take-hit" visual effects (VFX) and spatialized audio so clients correctly see and hear when other players take damage.
Visuals & Player Mechanics
Fixed a bug where blood overlays and the "injured" state animations would not clear properly when a player respawned;
Ensure offhand items correctly hide for other players when someone equips a two-handed weapon;
Fixed a bug where weapons would incorrectly parent to the "spear" grip position if the equipped item wasn't actually a spear;
Fixed an issue where feminine body customizations would occasionally fail to preserve during multiplayer status syncs.
World & Technical Foundations
Aligned the interaction source range with the items source range to make consuming and harvesting feel more consistent;
We are extremely excited to see everyone try the new update. We've put a lot of work in the new combat system to make it feel more fluid, complex and rewarding. Please don't hesitate to leave us a review or a message to tell us how you like it!

There are many more things coming to Nested Lands in the coming months. We are working on the skills system and we will share more info about it as soon as we can.

Stay safe and enjoy playing!
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26 May 2026Developer post
Guide: How to Find Villagers
Hi survivors! We've had a lot of questions regarding Villagers and their locations, so today we'd like to give you a quick overview on where and how you could find them. Let's have a look at the map: We've marked every hotspot area, where you can find a Villager. In these areas,
14 May 2026Developer post
Update 0.7.11.1
Hi, survivors! This update brings a highly requested quality-of-life feature for archers with a brand new dedicated Arrow Equipment Slot. We have also resolved a critical multiplayer loading issue and implemented a massive synchronization sweep for Village and Villager data. Equi
Hi, survivors!

This update brings a highly requested quality-of-life feature for archers with a brand new dedicated Arrow Equipment Slot. We have also resolved a critical multiplayer loading issue and implemented a massive synchronization sweep for Village and Villager data.
Equipment & Inventory
Managing your ammunition is now much cleaner and more intuitive!
Added a specific equipment slot for Arrows in the Inventory/Equipment view;
You can now drag and drop arrows directly into their new designated slot;
Multiplayer & Synchronization
Fixed a major bug where starting a new Multiplayer game would sometimes cause clients to get stuck on an infinite loading screen;
Client players will now correctly load and see accurate real-time data for villagers, including:
Health and Plague Level
Hydration, Nutrition, and Hygiene data
Equipped Armor
Synchronized the village's daily fuel consumption and ale consumption states.
UI, Visuals & Quality of Life
FUpdated the player animation that plays when using the new Fast Travel system;
Improved how font asset scaling is calculated across different screen sizes to prevent text formatting issues;
Improved the background logic for the Villager Info view to ensure stats are displayed more accurately;
Thank you so much for your feedback! We read all of the Steam reviews and community discussions and deeply appreciate your input on the game. Next major update is already in the works and we have some really cool things cooking up!

Stay safe!
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07 May 2026Developer post
Update 0.7.11.0: Fast Travel
Hi survivors! In this update, we've added new Fast Travel system and highly requested Unstuck feature! New Feature: Fast Travel System Discover unique fast travel points scattered across the North Plains and other regions to quickly move around the map; Added a dedicated fast tra
Hi survivors!

In this update, we've added new Fast Travel system and highly requested Unstuck feature!
New Feature: Fast Travel System
Discover unique fast travel points scattered across the North Plains and other regions to quickly move around the map;
Added a dedicated fast travel interface to select destinations. You can only travel to points you have previously discovered;
Fast travel points feature brand new visuals and include specific lore notes.
Unstuck Feature
Added a new "Unstuck" button to the Pause Menu. If you ever find yourself trapped in terrain or props, this button will find the nearest safe ground and relocate you.
Building & Construction
Added the ability to move existing structures within your village;
Players can rotate buildings during the move procedure;
Added checks to prevent moving buildings while players are inside them;
Characters and guards will be safely displaced or removed from structures being moved;
Added warning messages if a building cannot be moved to a specific location;
Increased the placement limit for both standard Garden Beds and Garden Beds (2x2);
Fixed an issue where constructions were not dropping all of their used resources when destroyed.
Gameplay Adjustments
Players will now play a quick holster/sheath animation before gathering resources, bathing, or drinking water from the well;
Torches will now only lose durability when they are actively enabled and held;
Fixed an issue where enemies were able to shoot at players through rocks and trees. Arrows also no longer get stuck floating in the air;
Reduced the number of chickens and enemies required to unlock their respective achievements;
Livestock corpses will now automatically disappear after being dead for a set amount of time. Added new video tutorials for Harvest Camps and Animal Husbandry.
Quests & Villagers
Added new varieties and improvements to the Villager Quest pool;
Note: The "Burn Plague Site" villager quest has been removed from rotation;
Fixed a bug in the quest unlocking logic;
Fixed a critical progression issue where the Builder's Hut would fail to unlock after the player grabbed the necessary schematics.
Environment & Visuals
Added new interactables and changed specific plant spawn setups in the Silent Forest;
Updated the 3D model for the Red Herb;
Fixed an issue where Plague Wind protection was failing in the corners of certain buildings;
Removed the roof from the Weaver (Tier 2) building and fixed its collider layers;
Removed the Museum from the unlockable buildings list at Village Level 10;
Fixed an issue where multiple villagers would try to sit in the same chair during their evening rest hours.
UI & Technical Changes
Adjusted the text sizing on option sliders, inventory "sort" buttons, and craft "collect" buttons so that longer translated words fit correctly;
Fixed an error that occurred when rapidly adding items to a crafting queue;
Fixed a bug where a worker appeared to collect more items than intended;
Fixed an exception regarding enemy detection in multiplayer;
Plugins: Updated several backend plugins for general stability.
Multiplayer & Technical Fixes
Consumable graphics are now correctly synchronized for all players when an item is used;
Fixed a bug where a player's Bow visual would disappear or reset incorrectly upon loading a save in multiplayer;
Added safeguards to prevent networked equipment from force-updating incorrectly on load;
Game time will now only start progressing after all players have fully connected and loaded their save data;
Added new quests and improved the synchronization of the Quest Board. Client players will now correctly see remaining days, accepted requests, and recruitment progress;
Correctly synchronized current crafting times and automated village production recipes when client players open craft stations;
Fixed bugs where other players' icons would disappear from the map, and resolved quest camera issues in multiplayer.
Thank you for the feedback! We are working on a bigger update and on other highly requested features.

Stay safe in the Plaguelands!
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20 Apr 2026Developer post
Major Update - Animal Husbandry - is Live! Also with new Save Feature
Hello survivors! This major update introduces the highly anticipated Animal Husbandry system, allowing you to raise and manage livestock. We are also bringing your outposts to life by populating Harvest Camps with working peasants, and we've implemented the foundation for a brand
Hello survivors!
This major update introduces the highly anticipated Animal Husbandry system, allowing you to raise and manage livestock. We are also bringing your outposts to life by populating Harvest Camps with working peasants, and we've implemented the foundation for a brand-new Codex lore-tracking system (not yet available).
Animal Husbandry - new major gameplay mechanic
Added two new buildings: Chicken Coop and Pigpen. Raise chickens to produce eggs and house pigs to produce truffles;
You can trap animals at new buildings;
Trapped animals will generate resources automatically and you can always kill them for additional meat;
Animals require Animal Feed to survive. If resources run low and animals aren't fed, they will starve and perish;
You will receive toast messages if animals die from starvation, and we've fixed duplicate notifications when spawning your last available chicken;
Animals will sleep at night and have improved navigation to avoid detecting or bumping into villagers;
There is a chance to get special rare items from both chickens and pigs.
Harvest Camps: Working Peasants
Harvest Camps are no longer just empty structures; they are now active centers of labor.
Populated both North Plains and Silent Forest harvest camps with working peasants;
Added specialized mining activities complete with new animation picking states and directional logic for the North Plains mining camp;
Removed the cooldowns on harvest camps and adjusted their graphics for a more active, "lived-in" appearance.
Gameplay
When you start harvesting a resource while holding a weapon, the sheathing animation is now skipped. The weapon instantly holsters, allowing your character to transition directly into the gathering animation without awkward delays;
Enemies killed outside the village area will no longer turn into a Plague Focus. Only enemies killed within your village boundaries carry this risk, making exploration significantly less punishing;
Fixed a bug that caused the player character to pause or stutter unexpectedly while swimming and when needs to save the game.
Saving
Now you can save your game everywhere!
Audio & Technical Fixes
Fixed the timing of ground footstep audio and improved sound detection to ensure footsteps sound natural on all terrain types.
Thank you so much for playing Nested Lands! We truly appreciate your feedback. There’s so much more in the works right now and we can’t wait to share it with everyone.
Stay vigilant and enjoy raising animals!
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Updates & announcements

1. New Features & Interface

2. Village Management & Production

3. Gameplay & Quality of Life

4. Performance Optimizations

5. Bug Fixes & Environment

New Features & Structures

Gameplay & Quality of Life

Multiplayer & Synchronization

Quests & Environment

UI, Audio & Visual Fixes

This major update brings a massive quality-of-life boost for multiplayer sessions: joining players can now actively manage the village and recruit villagers!

Multiplayer Village Management

New Features: Chest Filters & Auto Walk

Plague Wind Overhaul

Guards & NPC Combat AI

Balance Tuning & UI

Bug Fixes

New Feature: The Plague Nexus

New Feature: Survivor Hamlets

Combat Tuning

Quality of Life & NPCs

Player Respawn System

Bug Fixes

1. New Feature: Village Walls

2. Village Management & New Structures

3. Mercy System & Combat Tweaks

4. World, Environment & Economy

5. Quality of Life & UI

New Feature: Skill System

New Feature: The Pillory & Prisoners

Multiplayer & Player State Fixes

Balance & Content Updates

New Feature: Multiplayer PVP

Combat & Enemy AI

World & Physics Fixes

Quality of Life & UI

1. Enemy AI & Combat

2. Audio & Voice System Overhaul

3. Villagers & Village Management

4. Multiplayer & Synchronization

5. Fixes & Debug Tools

Combat Skills

Exploration Skills

Village Skills

Combat & Enemy AI

Multiplayer & Synchronization

Stealth & Audio

Quality of Life & UI

Environment & Fixes

What We’ve Built

March — Village Expansion Update:

April — Animal Husbandry Update:

May — Combat Update:

What's to Come

June — New Map Updates:

July — Plague Rework:

August — Burning Village Update:

September — The Museum:

October — Dark Waters & The Final Story:

Combat Overhaul: Posture, Parry & Shields

Mobility & Combat Flow

Enemy AI & The "Mercy" System

Multiplayer & Stability

Village, World & UI

Immersive Multiplayer Audio

Visuals & Player Mechanics

World & Technical Foundations

Equipment & Inventory

Multiplayer & Synchronization

UI, Visuals & Quality of Life

New Feature: Fast Travel System

Unstuck Feature

Building & Construction

Gameplay Adjustments

Quests & Villagers

Environment & Visuals

UI & Technical Changes

Multiplayer & Technical Fixes

Animal Husbandry - new major gameplay mechanic