Wayward

Released: Apr 22, 2016
Platforms: WindowsmacOSLinux
Last updated: 05 Sep 2026, 06:36 GMT

Updates & announcements

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10 Jul 2026Developer post
Cursebreaker Update #5
Hope you all had a great Summer Sale! While we are busy working on the next major update, we thought we might split off some of the changes/improvements and bug fixes into a smaller update that you see here. Report any issues that you spot as usual! Bonus Promo: Check out our Dis
Hope you all had a great Summer Sale! While we are busy working on the next major update, we thought we might split off some of the changes/improvements and bug fixes into a smaller update that you see here.

Report any issues that you spot as usual!

Bonus Promo: Check out our Discord for frequent discussions on everything Wayward! https://discord.com/invite/wayward

Bonus Tip: Make sure to name your important tamed creatures so that they don’t de-spawn after becoming untamed!
New
Added a new particle effect system with simulated physics.
Altars are now eligible for the Fanaticism magical property, applying to you when you're next to or diagonal from them.
Improvements
Base components like water containers can now be "protected," making it so the liquid itself can not be consumed in any crafts when protected.
The Invoke action now displays with an action tier to help make it more obvious that it changes based on rune quality.
The actual fanaticism bonus % for consecration now displays beneath the arrow in the Altar dialog.
You can now extinguish lighthouses via the action menu.
You can now copy a player's "name" and "identifier" from the player management section in the multiplayer menu.
Balance
Tweaked the odds of other island types to favor non-coastal islands the further you are away from the starting island. The least common will slowly become the most common. (Thanks Hikahi!)
Runes now no longer have reduced or eliminated drop rates in lower tier zones, but are no longer obtainable at all before the first curse event. (Thanks Socran!)
The Consecrate action tier (based on highest quality of offered runes + doodad) now provides increased Theurgy skill gain. (Thanks Socran!)
Lighthouses will now be re-lit to their maximum decay values but will require a candle to craft them.
Wheelbarrows now use less stamina while on tracks.
Reduced the amount of stamina that wheelbarrows use slightly.
Fixed there still being a Theurgy skill gain backdoor through refining and reinforcement.
Bandages now require a sharpened item.
Increased the maximum decay for lighthouses.
Increased shipper weight limits.
The lucky & unlucky curse events occurring now also impact the other curse events they come along with.
Reduced the maximum reinforcement durability and maximum crafting durability bonus slightly.
Bug Fixes
Fixed container weight not updating when doing specific actions. (Thanks Korb and kustoxv2!)
Fixed being able to open altar container dialogs when the altars are held items.
Fixed the "Open Container" action showing on altars in addition to "Kneel".
Fixed some decay inconsistencies when crafting, especially regarding bonuses and magical properties. (Thanks tr1ger1n86!)
Potentially fixed some issues with action slots not updating properly. (Thanks ellaris!)
Fixed bad milestone data being able to throw real errors and break actions or prevent loading entire saves. (Thanks Socran!)
Fixed the "Defiled" milestone not being unlockable nor displaying progress. (Thanks Socran!)
Fixed massive lag happening when players on different islands would rest or sleep. The "calculated" ticks were meant to only happen when all players were resting at the same time. (Thanks Moerderin!)
Fixed shippers not being able to find the edge of the island in certain situations.
Fixed plants being spawned in on non-empty tiles in some cases. (Thanks tr1ger1n86!)
Fixed an error when invoking the evil deity. (Thanks Moerderin!)
Fixed the lucky/unlucky curse events not showing up anymore. (Thanks Socran!)
Fixed cursed "Impermanence" items reducing maximum durability down to 0, leading to multiple issues. (Thanks tr1ger1n86!)
Fixed stack item menus not being consistent. (Thanks Goliat!)
Fixed "Hoarding" items getting up to triple the maximum decay value instead of up to double.
Fixed a resource durability issue when attempting to dig grass that has spread over other tiles. (Thanks tr1ger1n86!)
Fixed explosive traps not starting fires properly.
Fixed being able to spawn the same prompt multiple times while in real-time or simulated turn-based modes.
Fixed being able to no-clip (fly) or fast-move without Debug Tools being loaded.
Fixed generated torches not getting proper decay levels based on their quality or magical properties.
Fixed generated torches not having a decay value. (Thanks AI Player 2!)
Fixed a desync happening due to insulation and equipment.
Technical
Upgraded Electron to 43.1.0.
Mods
Debug Tools
Added support for the magical hoarding property for maximum item decay.
Fixed a desync when granting players debug tools permissions.
Added a "Creature Zone" tab within inspect to see current creature spawns among other information.
Fixed runes not changing their graphic to their resonating forms when spawning curse events.
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12 Apr 2026Developer post
Cursebreaker Update #4
Good day (night?) all! We have another smaller update ready for release today. We wanted to get this one out a bit quicker to fix up some recent performance issues that have been widely reported, but the update kept growing. Apologies! I hope you all enjoy the rest of the changes
Good day (night?) all!

We have another smaller update ready for release today. We wanted to get this one out a bit quicker to fix up some recent performance issues that have been widely reported, but the update kept growing. Apologies! I hope you all enjoy the rest of the changes, new additions, and improvements this time around!

Please take a gander at the changelog below and send us a review or comment on your thoughts. Thanks!

Bonus Tip: Frigid nights can be very cold and disruptive. Make sure to prepare yourself for this curse if it ever befalls upon you. Craft fur armor, and fill the rest of your slots with leather or metal armor. Build a campfire and make sure to keep it stoked! The closer you are to the fire, the warmer it is. Hold a lit torch, especially when away from your campfire. Use a bedroll to sleep, and make sure to keep it next to the fire for a less-interupted rest or sleep. Higher quality or magical properties affect most of these as well - so keep upgrading when you can!

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New
Magical properties now, very rarely, can instead be cursed properties.
Added a new curse event, "Suffused with Magic".
Added two new milestones, Warded and Defiled.
Improvements
Doodads now display many more of their unique actions in their tooltips, which should hopefully help UX.
Bedrolls now have insulation stats for when you're sleeping. (Thanks k_akabane!)
Doodads tooltips now mention if they are a fire source and/or open fire source.
Added a per-event cooldown for curse events, so that you don't get a single event too often.
Re-lighting a jack-o'-lantern now resets its decay. (Thanks k_akabane!)
You can now set the tick time in the new game menu for singleplayer. (Thanks MightyLad!)
Many actions are no longer required for the "Operator" milestone — the milestone is now closer to the intent of "things you can do with doodads, creatures, and items" rather than "every possible action in the UI".
Loading a save with missing mods that were not set up to be removed from a save now no longer re-prompts every single time. (Thanks Rude Gentleman!)
"Inspect in Dialog" no longer shows in cases where all tooltips were hidden/intentionally disabled via options.
Scare Radius now shows in the "Start Fire" use for Jack-o-lanterns.
Temperature is now shown and calculated to a single decimal place instead of rounded down and showing with two decimal places.
Insulation is now shown with a decimal point to show proper magical property values. (Thanks Nobody Important!)
The "uses" section of doodad tooltips now uses proper linked action names & icons.
More damage numbers are now shown in the Throw action section of item tooltips in some cases.
Groups of related actions are now merged for action discovery — discovering one discovers all related actions and reveals them in the actions drawer.
Balance
When you only have minor temperature status effects, it's now much less likely for you to be woken up by being uncomfortably cold/warm. (Thanks k_akabane!)
Jack-o-lanterns now have a greater scare radius but only affect curse event creatures.
Upgrading insulation properties is now much faster/impactful.
The "A Wave of Life" and "A Wave of Death" events now better support rune effects. (Thanks Nobody Important!)
Bug Fixes
Improved the performance of the areas you've explored being obscured during curse events.
When you're moving around with everything outside of your field of view obscured during curse events, the fog is now smoother and less "snappy".
Fixed other doodads with quality having a scare radius. (Thanks Nobody Important!)
Fixed not being able to move protected items to the right of stacked items of the same type. (Thanks Nobody Important!)
Fixed changing whether discovery is enabled not updating stats.
Fixed having identical mods installed via workshop & locally being possible to both be enabled at the same time, disabling the other button for each.
Fixed gathering warnings showing for cobwebs. (Thanks ellaris!)
Fixed jack-o-lanterns in item form displaying 0 for their scare radius.
Fixed opening the inspect dialog for food items and mousing over consume stats not giving you a full consume overview anymore.
Fixed the action slot icons being visible in the equipment dialog even after unequipping an item. (Thanks AlP!)
Fixed attempting to do some actions on a facing tile, instead of using the tile you are on.
Fixed the "View Items" action being required for the Operator milestone, being visible in worlds without the option enabled, and not giving a proper "cannot use" reason.
Fixed magical inscriptions not retaining upgraded magical properties from relics. (Thanks Nobody Important!)
Fixed errors when crafting mastercrafted items in specific instances. (Thanks Nobody Important!)
Fixed some actions, like "dismount" or "sleep" moving the player, then performing the action on the tile they were on/targeting. (Thanks randomtango!)
Fixed pickaxes not being effective at gathering loose piles of rocks. (Thanks Dr. Incompetent!)
Fixed the "Close Container" action not being available for vehicles when targeting the tile/vehicle you are on.
Modding
Fixed an issue with the wayward +mod commands. (Thanks samuelt12, Steph!)
Mods
Debug Tools
Added curse event tracking UI.
Added the ability to change a doodad's decay when inspecting it.
Added the ability to choose a quality for doodads.
Relic items can now reach their maximum value potential.
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22 Mar 2026Developer post
Cursebreaker Update #3
We have a new release filled to the brim with bug fixes and some improvements/additions to the curse system. Hope you enjoy! Bonus Promo: The Steam Spring Sale has sprung! Wayward is currently -25% off during the event. Tell your friends! View game page Bonus Tip: Maxing out a sk
We have a new release filled to the brim with bug fixes and some improvements/additions to the curse system. Hope you enjoy!

Bonus Promo: The Steam Spring Sale has sprung! Wayward is currently -25% off during the event. Tell your friends!
View game page Bonus Tip: Maxing out a skill still provides attribute/stat (strength (health), dexterity (stamina), etc.) increases when using it. There's no limit on these stats; however, the higher they are, the harder they are to increase. To find out which stats increase when using a specific skill, you can open up the skill dialog (default "V") to reveal this, as long as you have increased a stat with that skill in the past.
New
Added "Warding" and "Fortune" magical properties.
Certain creatures will now damage multiple pieces of armor at a time.
Added an initial curse option to the custom game options menu.
You can now copy the current game's seed to your clipboard from within the "World Options" menu.
Improvements
The area you've explored now slowly gets chipped away into complete darkness during curse events and returns during the morning.
Drawn maps now give directions.
The milestone modifier type is now shown in the multiplayer server browser and on the pause screen.
Added some new special aberrant chance calculations in some places.
Improved performance when using "Target Hovered Tile" action slots. (Thanks Zanster!)
The "Statistician" milestone now no longer blocks guaranteed stat gains. (Thank King Smidgens!)
You can now use the protect item and rename shortcuts while hovering over equipment items.
The curse stat now shows the chance of a curse event occurring, which increases every turn based on your curse factors.
The reset milestone progress button now mentions discovery as well.
Removed the ability to create "empty" action slots which could cause several unintended/confusing issues.
Reworked void dweller AI.
The cinematic overlay effect no longer shows while the player is dead while "Disable UI Opacity" is checked.
Improved message/error when trying to drop items onto a full tile.
Added a message that states what was failed to drop or dump in the case that not all items were able to be dropped on the same tile.
Balance
Rebalanced the curse stat to make it matter for longer.
The "Sleeplessness" factor of the curse stat is now easier to keep lower. (Thanks Nameless!)
Cacti no longer continuously damage the player (but will still cause the cut status).
Void dwellers are now "fearless".
Removed most natural Void Dweller spawning.
The "Undeath" curse event now scales up a tiny bit slower. (Thanks Nameless!)
Biome-specific items are now weighted higher when learning crafts.
Curing will no longer cause overhydrating or overeating.
When re-taming golems or offering items, they will now receive the same turn bonus as when summoning.
Fire overflow events can now happen while a fire is "healthy" or higher instead of only during "raging".
Bug Fixes
Fixed many incorrect instances of player damage or trampling when standing over certain doodads, tile events or items.
Fixed several types of special spawns not being able to be aberrant.
Fixed being able to drag boats or minecarts like wheelbarrows after dumping items.
Fixed dropping items on tiles not working when "Drop Items on Feet" is enabled.
Fixed action slots being bugged when switching out items with undiscovered actions and toggling "Target Hovered Tile" on them.
Fixed some vegetative trees clipping into the player's graphic.
Fixed not being able to auto-use actions that were discovered by default and/or showing that they still needed to be used in some cases to discover them.
Fixed an item action slot icons persisting when attempting to slot an item with an action that was not applicable or discovered yet.
Fixed a hotkey issue when using binds inside of sub-item menus that would cause incorrect actions to be performed. (Thanks AI Player 2!)
Fixed certain tiles not being diggable in certain biomes. (Thanks Nobody!)
Fixed not being able to refine multiple items in a pile. (Thanks Destro!)
Fixed non-trap doodads showing a "trap" animation when getting damaged by it.
Fixed an incorrect "No room" message showing when attempting to drop an item that was already on the ground.
Fixed some cross-type duplicate affixes appearing for multiple magical properties.
Fixed being able to select a specific item to use when creating a "Craft" action slot.
Fixed the curse inspect dialog not updating properly.
Fixed the "A Wave of Life" and "A Wave of Death" curse events not being revealed when witnessing the creatures spawned by the event. (Thanks Franzi!)
Fixed cancelling/exiting action slot configuration adding weird additional actions instead of closing the drawer.
Fixed the statistician milestone modifier tooltip not displaying or updating correctly. (Thanks King Smidgens!)
Fixed altars rendering incorrectly after dumping items from them.
Fixed attempting to hover drop a single item (or one of a specific quality) from a stack always dropping all items indiscriminately.
Fixed some incorrect items being available on merchants in some biomes.
Fixed boglings having an incorrect weight when caged.
Fixed no sound being produced when moving stacked items into a container.
Fixed incorrect dropping/dumping messages when dropping onto tiles with no room.
Fixed an undefined variable showing in unable to drop messages and an incorrect verb being used in some situations.
Fixed multiple item move messages showing on some occasions.
Fixed an incorrect message saying you were unable to move items to a container even though you did. (Thanks warriorsforever482!)
Fixed some items/recipes not being properly available in the Wetlands biome.
Fixed slimes being removed sometimes without spawning a Jelly Cube when next to other slimes.
Fixed Multitasker milestone counting the wrong number of skills. (Thanks Franzi!)
Fixed items not being applicable for use when inside a protected container when its next use would break.
Fixed durability damage not updating action slot items in some cases.
Fixed stacked items not highlighting properly when crafting repeatedly. (Thanks buchecker!)
Fixed issues getting the proper damage/attack values in some cases. (Thanks Pakkun!)
Fixed "generated" mastercrafted not always having the required input items. (Thanks Andrej27!)
Fixed rare quality type items on merchants not generating the correct disassembled items. (Thanks Robin!)
Fixed jack-o'-lanterns not relighting properly. (Thanks Jazzy!)
Fixed some spelling misteaks. (Thanks Jazzy, BiG PoTaT!)
Fixed pans not being able to be disassembled after using them for pies. (Thanks buchecker!)
Fixed happiness potentially getting reduced when offering items to creatures.
Fixed not being able to copy maps with protected inksticks. (Thanks buchecker!)
Fixed a curse-related multiplayer desync.
Fixed gathering cobwebs using botany instead of tinkering. (Thanks Jazzy!)
Fixed an issue where "Custom Per Client" milestone modifiers were not working. (Thanks King Smidgens, Echora Tallit, Calligraphy!)
Fixed the "Operator" milestone including incorrect actions. (Thanks tachyon!)
Fixed some creatures being able to be pet each turn indefinitely. (Nitromaster161!)
Fixed normal quality terrain not showing magical growth speed. (Thanks King Smidgens!)
Fixed dropping items onto the current tile causing the player to move to an adjacent tile.
Fixed previously set commands not working correctly when untaming and re-taming creatures. (Thanks Putan!)
Fixed golem figures changing weight and worth after reloading the game. (Thanks kustoxv2!)
Fixed the wrong item being used in messages when entering a boat. (Thanks buchecker!)
Fixed disassemble items showing a breaking warning on low durability. (Thanks buchecker!)
Fixed "Drop Items at Feet When Facing Tile is Blocked" not working. (Thanks 0delano0!)
Fixed offal not burning into giblets first before ash. (Thanks Crows!)
Fixed an incorrect string being placed in the "Resource Gathering" help article. (Thanks Putan!)
Modding
Added modding support for "DataComponent"s, allowing you to store any serialisable data on any entity, strongly-typed.
Mods
Debug Tools
Added support for modifying all curse system data.
Fixed not being able to add or modify stat potency magical properties on items.
Fixed teleporting not updating audio positioning.
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20 Dec 2025Developer post
Cursebreaker Update #2
Only a few days remain until the big day, but who cares about that? We have an early update gift for you instead! In this update, we focused on improving lots of areas of the game and smoothing out some Curse mechanics. Oh ya, and tons of bug fixes, of course. Bonus Tip: If you a
Only a few days remain until the big day, but who cares about that? We have an early update gift for you instead! In this update, we focused on improving lots of areas of the game and smoothing out some Curse mechanics. Oh ya, and tons of bug fixes, of course.
Bonus Tip: If you are feeling like you want a bit more challenge (and reward) in the game, try exploring! The farther out from spawn, the harder creatures that will appear. If you travel to other islands using a boat/raft, creatures will progressively get harder and harder the farther away you are from your starting island. Need even more control? Try mastering the art of invoking all those runes you have been stockpiling!
Bonus Promo: Wayward is currently -30% off as part of the Steam Winter Sale! Share the gift of getting destroyed by a Skeleton with all your loved ones this holiday season!

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New
The multiplayer menu shows a list of connected/absent players with the ability to remove their data (delete their character, stats, items, etc.).
Added a new option to move or drop all of a quality of an item that is different (or other than) the selected item quality.
Your runes resonate with strange events. You may invoke the unknowable entities more often in these times... but will they respond the same?
Improvements
Curse events now display their associated deity in their tooltip.
Grasses will now have a chance to spread naturally, like other plants - they now have a "seeding" stage. (Thanks Tokmol!)
Jack-o'-lanterns no longer require candles to light, instead they require them when crafting. (Thanks warriorsforever482!)
Luck now impacts the chances of getting relics from all sources.
Clients now verify that they have player data on a server before joining so that they can now select a new character in cases where a multiplayer game was reverted, or the player data has since been removed.
You can now weigh curse events associated with a specific deity higher by wearing gear with the Fanaticism magical property.
Improved the performance of scarecrow overlays.
Fertilizer can now burn. (Thanks Grub!)
Burned fruits will no longer produce seeds. (Thanks Grub!)
You can now craft mud (using soil and water). Mud now decays into soil.
You can now start fires in enclosed fire structures even when they are over shallow water.
Decreased lag when opening chests with many items. (Thanks HubertNNN!)
Persistence items can now be repaired even with low base durability as a new bonus.
The repair event that breaks items now happens as a separate event to repairing success or failure (previously, it happened during success).
Balance
Boglings can now produce mud and dirt as well as their normal swamp tiles which can also be found on their corpse.
Curse event creatures now stay away from you while you're sleeping by a light source, assuming you've been asleep for more than just a few turns.
When raising a skill to 100%, you now get a guaranteed stat increase.
Random seed events and Dryad will now only spread plants native to that biome.
Fire extinguishing in the "Shadows Move" curse event now also happens while you're asleep, though at a reduced rate.
Runes are no longer rewarded for curse events (usually) when you sleep through them.
Random plant death events are now much rarer.
Curse event creatures no longer wander to you from very far away if you're sleeping.
Lighthouses no longer provide "fire" for crafting or other actions.
Damaged doodads now drop or break at 0 durability instead of 1, so they can't be endlessly rebuilt.
Plants that are not native to a biome will now grow much more slowly.
Added more diverse food options for chickens and goats.
Reduced the effects of the "A Wave of Death" curse.
Bug Fixes
Fixed torches and candles not keeping their maximum decay values when extinguished. (Thanks AlP and Andrej27!)
Fixed some curse event effects not being applied.
Fixed not being able to extinguish jack-o'-lanterns. (Thanks Pandemult!)
Fixed errors when harvesting some previously interacted with plants. (Thanks Creamizzing!)
Fixed the "Retailer" milestone not getting the correct total civilization score. (Thanks Tachyon!)
Fixed crushing items always returning the same quality of broken item. (Thanks Nobody!)
Fixed glass pans and baking trays not having durability. (Thanks buchecker!)
Fixed "Inspect in Dialog" and "Show More" tooltips not showing in some instances. (Thanks Tachyon!)
Fixed a desync related to crafting and runes. (Thanks RHYTHZU!)
Fixed items that would be consumed or have low durability not updating availability when toggling protection. (Thanks Words Words Words!)
Fixed action slot tooltips not being visible when "Always Show More Information" was enabled.
Fixed an exploit that would allow crafting an item without having its recipe unlocked. (Thanks Grub!)
Fixed trees defaulting to budding growth after returning to an already visited island after many turns have passed.
Fixed the "Master of All" not having the correct amount of skills. (Thanks Tachyon!)
Fixed repairing items with "Persistence" breaking with low maximum (base) durability. (Thanks Robin!)
Fixed some rare errors caused by burning items. (Thanks Grub!)
Fixed the action filter resetting as other players used actions while in real-time mode. (Thanks Shirow!)
Fixed the "Afflicted" milestone including "Cursed".
Fixed torches updating incorrectly after traveling. (Thanks zantan!)
Fixed the invoke action showing tiers even though they had no effect.
Puddles will no longer extinguish "enclosed" fire sources.
Fixed the "Hoarding" magical property not getting applied or unapplied properly. (Thanks Andrej27!)
Disabled overlay support (for now, unless specifically set in launch_options.json) due to upstream issues. (Thanks Cyganet, Viorghin!)
Fixed leaves not drying out. (Thanks Crows!)
Fixed plant spreading not working correctly when sleeping/traveling.
Fixed picking up torches sometimes getting incorrect decay values.
Fixed stoking fire not working properly in some cases with doodads.
Fixed the "Hoarding" magical property not getting the correct values when inspecting.
Fixed numerous random issues caused by various modifiers that used a specific data type. (Thanks Andrej27!)
Items that cannot be stoked (but are flammable) will no longer disappear in campfires. (Thanks Thouit!)
Fixed an issue with the save upgrade system that would have caused bad things going forwards. (Thanks Andrej27!)
Fixed an error when viewing the tooltip for stat magical properties. (Thanks Thouit!)
Technical
Added a scary description to the "Developer Mode" button to hopefully get players to stop accidentally enabling it and leaving it on. It's almost certainly not useful for you!
Modding
Added a simpler way to do mod registrations — "Mod.register.*()" function calls in the "top level" of your mod script. Troposphere and Debug Tools have been updated to use this new way to do mod registrations.
Added a Developer Tools console helper "Reflection.where("exportName")" to get a list of module paths that export something by that name.
Mods
Troposphere
Fixed creatures not being spawned correctly after world generation.
Fixed printing hundreds of thousands of warnings in the log when creating a new game.
Fixed below terrain rendering black/white due to terrain loading optimization.
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29 Oct 2025Developer post
Cursebreaker Update #1
It's patch night! After our launch on the weekend, you all have discovered quite a few issues. The release tonight will hopefully address some of the bigger ones, with more on the way. Keep 'em coming! Bonus Promo: Rumors are that our wonderful composer, Austin Dhillon may be wor
It's patch night! After our launch on the weekend, you all have discovered quite a few issues. The release tonight will hopefully address some of the bigger ones, with more on the way. Keep 'em coming!

Bonus Promo: Rumors are that our wonderful composer, Austin Dhillon may be working on a third soundtrack for Wayward. Both soundtracks are available on Steam and are currently -10% off:

View game page View game pageBonus Tip: What's cordage? Cordage is a group of items in Wayward that are used to make things like string, ropes, and more. Basically, they are pieces of fiber. Cordage includes the following items: Badderlocks, Clematis Vine, Coconut Husk, Joshua Tree Leaves, Palm Leaf, Palapalai Frond, Plant Roots, Sheaf of Hay, Cattail Leaves, Sinew, Spider Silk, Stripped Bark, Stripped Leather, and Spikerush Sheaths. You can search/filter for cordage in your inventory, crafting and now (as of this update) dismantle windows.
Improvements
The dismantle filter will now find groups of the dismantled items. (Thanks Deadpool!)
Balance
Curse event creatures can now find you from very far away.
Bug Fixes
Fixed pies returning the incorrect item. (Thanks Nobody Important!)
Fixed a desync related to Magical Motes.
Fixed mod loading and publishing issues across all platforms.
Fixed Stat and Stat Potency magical properties not being saved in the correct way, resulting in some cases when we change things causing the affected stats on equipment to change. (Thanks Andrej27!)
Fixed Crowberries growing incorrectly. (Thanks Nobody!)
Fixed transmogrification removing magical properties that had the same type, but different sub-types. (Thanks Vinn!)
Fixed the insulation magical property providing its minimum effect when it's not even on a piece of equipment.
Forcibly rediscovered all stats for existing players due to them disappearing. (We're not sure why this happened.)
Fixed an error when inspecting the temperature stat in some specific situations.
Fixed the "Cursebreaker" milestone requiring more events than currently exist.
Fixed slime patches not working correctly.
Fixed the "Frigid Night" event occurring slightly earlier in progression than intended. (Thanks OmniSanti!)
Fixed Upgrade and Exude not working correctly with insulation. (Thanks Andrej27!)
Fixed "Persistence" items not getting the correct durability when granted from a milestone modifier. (Thanks Lemonboy_free!)
Fixed exuding "Persistence" onto items not getting the correct durability. (Thanks warriorsforever482!)
Fixed "Nature's Wrath" event not being revealed sometimes due to being around only tamed creatures, or due to being active simultaneously with "Nature's Embrace" event.
Fixed the "Swarm" event not spawning as many creatures as intended.
Fixed some curse event effects not being skipped when the cursebearer is asleep.
Fixed the "Toggle All Auto-Use Slots" default bind not working. (Thanks Shirow!)
Fixed the "Lucky" and "Unlucky" events being able to spawn on their own.
Fixed a rare potential case where curse events could remove or mess with the wrong creatures.
Fixed "Disable UI Animation" not adding the static magic icon.
Mods
TARS
Fixed lag when opening the options menu.
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25 Oct 2025Developer post
Major Update "Cursebreaker" Released
Over the last year, our so-called “minor” updates have been anything but small, so we thought we might try something a bit different this time around; instead, focusing on a special seasonal theme in the form of a major release. just in time for the big spooky day! Speaking of sp
Over the last year, our so-called “minor” updates have been anything but small, so we thought we might try something a bit different this time around; instead, focusing on a special seasonal theme in the form of a major release. just in time for the big spooky day! Speaking of spookiness, have a peek at our teaser for this special update:
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Some stand-out features this time around include:
New ~~Trick or Treat~~ Curse Mechanic: You are cursed! While awake at night, there’s a chance for random events to occur. The higher your curse level, the more frequent and potentially dangerous these events become.
Added Jack-o’-Lanterns: A new spooky, curse-warding light source.
Tree Update: Trees now include a new “Seeding” growth stage, and the “Bare” status is part of the tree’s life cycle, which now cycles back from “Bare” to “Budding”. Leaves from most trees now decay into “dried leaves”, which can appear under trees when reaching their “Bare” stage.
Temperature Overhaul: Added a temperature indicator that appears only when it’s cold enough to freeze or hot enough to overheat. The temperature and insulation system has been overhauled to go along with this. Values are simply added together instead of being weighted per piece of equipment.
Sticky Situation: Spiders can now spin cobwebs. Moving through them will cause you to lose a turn.
New Recipes: Two new baking recipes have been added for use with a new set of pans. There are a few other new goodies as well.
Check out the full changelog below:
New
You are cursed! At night, when awake, there is a chance of a random event occurring. The higher your curse level, the more random events, and the more danger you face...
Added a "Seeding" growth cycle for all trees.
Added a display for the temperature stat, showing only when it's cold or hot enough to be freezing or overheating.
Spiders can now produce cobwebs, which can make you skip a turn when moving over them.
Added jack-o'-lanterns, a new scary, curse-warding light source.
Bare trees are now part of the normal plant's life cycle - they will return to budding after a typical cycle or turn count.
Added clay, glass, and metal baking pans.
Added two new baking recipes to be used with pans.
Added two types of sugar.
Added two new cooking recipes with sugar.
Leaves now decay or dry into "dried leaves", which can be used as better compost and tinder.
Added a "pile of leaves" tile event that can appear by or around bare or seeding trees.
Some items can now be damaged when walking on them or as some creatures move over them. This can be mitigated by walking barefoot.
Added new generalized "action" sound effects (previously, just used the crafting sound effect).
Added a new item break sound effect (separate from general failures).
Added a new sound for crafting and crafting failure.
Added glass and clay baking trays.
Added a new Starter Quest regarding repairing and durability.
Improvements
The effective radius is now displayed when mousing over a scarecrow doodad.
The Temperature Insulation system has been simplified. Insulation is now entirely flat numbers summed together, rather than weighted averages and percentages.
Updated the menu screen for Cursebreaker — new major releases going forward will all look and feel at least a little unique.
Items dropped on campfires (or open fire sources) will now automatically be "stoked" in the fire, instead of a new fire being created "on top" of the doodad.
Some items, doodads, and tile events can spawn in zones with certain creatures.
Modified the recipe and graphic for bone flutes so they are more distinctive over bone needles.
Added a new tooltip for showing the item stacking keybind under item tooltips.
Fixed a number of cases where options in the custom game "customize" menu didn't display in the tooltips in the in-game pause menu.
Added a random event for temperature checks so tiles will melt properly over time unlike before.
Significantly improved the display of custom game options in the in-game pause menu.
Improved alerted icon positioning for tall and flying creatures.
Added indicators via the status effects UI for the last core stat raised for the Statistician modifier and the last rune received for the Runekeeper modifier. (Thanks Andrej27!)
Changed the default bind for "Toggle Auto-Use" to Ctrl + Right click.
Charcoal will now turn into carbon powder when broken.
Creatures now disappear at the end of their movement animation when moving out of your line of sight, rather than at the start.
Scarecrow items will now exactly match what is placed down as a doodad (previously, it was randomized).
Reduced the size of alerted creature icons slightly.
Reduced the volume of the failure sound effect.
Items with seeds will now break with their seeds remaining.
"Bare" trees can now be healed/regenerated just like other growth stages.
Water still tooltips will now reveal if the tile is too cold for the still to function.
Added an option to disable UI animation. The option to disable UI effects disables animation by default.
The doodad tooltip now mentions whether or not there is a container attached to stills. (Thanks Townfall!)
Changed the default crafting display to "Craftable Only".
Solar stills will now reveal in their tooltips that there is unpurified water in them when placed over shallow water.
A hint now shows in the Stats UI when there are still stats yet to be discovered.
Added a sound effect when jumping.
Some tile events now get removed when jumping onto them, like puddles.
Cooked fish kebabs now return their base components (wooden spear) when destroyed.
Added new information to Help and the Starter Quest to explain sorting and filtering in the crafting dialog.
Tweaked the background behind messages to still fulfil the same purpose, but without being quite as intrusive.
Setting a "Repair" action to be auto-used now only actually uses the action when the target item is at its minimum durability.
When creatures damage items on the ground, there is a new sound effect and particles to indicate it is happening.
Balance
The Fanaticism magical property has been significantly buffed, now working on the Invoke effect for an additional deity, reducing the cooldown between Invokes, and even reducing the chance that runes are consumed at all.
Random events now no longer happen three times per turn globally across the map, but instead happen twice: once near the player, and once outside the player's area.
Drastically improved the conversion rate from one rune tier to the next, which should allow players much greater access to higher-tier runes. Fanaticism gear can still be used to improve the conversion rate further.
The chance of shadow creature spawns has been removed from invoking.
Increased the stoke value of coal.
Increased time needed to filter water in dripstones, decreased time needed for water stills.
Reduced the mining/chopping effectiveness of all tools that are not pickaxes/axes.
Added a chance to wake up from uncomfortable or extreme temperatures.
The chances that creatures will drop runes on death have been rebalanced across the board to roughly match their difficulty.
Reduced spider silk drop chances on giant spiders. Added the ability for trap door spiders to drop spider silk.
Boat paddles can now be fished up randomly.
Decreased the odds of getting "stuck" on Volcanic islands without a boat by modifying loot groups, creature spawning, tree generation and more.
Some items can now break much more easily when thrown.
Bug Fixes
Fixed item highlighting not resetting when hovering over the action bar and from other sources. (Thanks Nama!)
Fixed items getting stuck on the screen. (Thanks Sophie!)
Fixed item greying out effect when previewing a stack not working after moving a stack to another container.
Fixed items indicated for trade in the Trade dialog being used or destroyed not being handled correctly, causing errors and stuck items. (Thanks Ole!)
Corrected hunger and thirst drain when traveling; this was too high due to the travel time changes. (Thanks Chl!)
Fixed random plant events and dryad special abilities not working properly.
The number of full item tooltips that display in the inspect dialog when inspecting a tile is now capped to 8.
Fixed the consecration action saying that the deity is pleased even when you failed to upgrade anything and the total worth of your runes has decreased.
Fixed text with tooltips in hidden menus still showing their tooltips if you mouse over their position. (Thanks muzzy!)
Fixed wooden chests using the wrong skill when using disassembling, repairing, etc.
Fixed an empty grey bar appearing when showing more information in tooltips. (Thanks muzzy!)
Fixed Jelly Cubes not having any slime ball resource drops. (Thanks warriorsforever482!)
Fixed dropping items onto traps not setting them off.
Fixed decayed items not returning the same unique magical naming when they returned their disassembly items (cooked fish kebabs).
Fixed ash turning into incorrect tile types when dug in certain biomes. (Thanks Ole!)
Fixed being able to pet slimes way too quickly. (Thanks warriorsforever482!)
Fixed instances of skill gain proccing multiple times from a single action not also proccing stat gain and rune drop chances multiple times.
Fixed item crushing happening when dropping items. (Thanks Ole!)
Fixed showing attack on the cast action within item tooltips. (Thanks Grub!)
Fixed being able to farm an excessive amount of theurgy skill via repeated consecration of the same runes, especially with Fanaticism gear.
Fixed pouring water on the stills with water already in it not extinguishing the fire.
Fixed some more container item list desyncs (instances where the item list has to regenerate due to it being incorrect, which costs performance.)
Fixed the wrong water type from being created when picking up stills or dripstones in some instances.
Fixed drop being disabled on explosive traps.
Fixed being able to attempt to purify milk.
Fixed the stamina stat always being discovered by default.
Fixed not being able to disassemble basalt walls.
Fixed the change counts at the top of a changelog displaying weirdly.
Technical
Items can now have base components (this system is used for pies), so separate recipes aren't needed for every pie in every different pan and are stacked together.
Replaced the require.js dependency with a custom module loader. Modders: Circular dependencies are no longer possible.
Updated to Electron 38.
Modding
"Mod.get()" can now be used in the top-level/init context of mod files in order to get the mod's "ModInformation", which will be injected with the mod's instance when available.
Mods
TARS
Fixed not being able to craft most metal items.
Will now create crucibles as part of their main tool set.
Debug Tools
Added support for the new Curse system.
Original post
18 Oct 2025Developer post
Testing Underway!
Testing is now underway for our next major update. You know what that means! It means taking a stroll over to the "Betas" section in Steam under Wayward and switching it over to the "Development Branch" and helping us test out all the new treats. There might be a few tricks as we
Testing is now underway for our next major update. You know what that means! It means taking a stroll over to the "Betas" section in Steam under Wayward and switching it over to the "Development Branch" and helping us test out all the new treats. There might be a few tricks as well if you catch my drift.
Here Be ~~Dragons~~ Drakes
As always, we would encourage you to back up your saves before trying this development branch of the game. By default, you can find your backups and save folders in the main Wayward directory. You can also export saves and global save data in-game if needed. More information on how to change branches here: View game pageReport any issues you spot!

Here’s the unsorted changelog thus far:
New
You are cursed! At night, when awake, there is a chance of a random event occurring. The higher your curse level, the more random events, and the more danger you face...
Added jack-o'-lanterns, a new scary, curse-warding light source.
Added two new baking recipes to be used with pans.
Bare trees are now part of the normal plant's life cycle - they will return to budding after a typical cycle or turn count.
Added a display for the temperature stat, showing only when it's cold or hot enough to be freezing or overheating.
Added a "Seeding" growth cycle for all trees.
Leaves now decay or dry into "dried leaves," which can be used as better compost and tinder.
Spiders can now produce cobwebs, which can make you skip a turn when moving over them.
Added a "pile of leaves" tile event that can appear by or around bare or seeding trees.
Added two types of sugar.
Added two new cooking recipes with sugar.
Some items can now be damaged when walking on them or as some creatures move over them. This can be mitigated by walking barefoot.
Added clay, glass and metal baking pans.
Added new generalized "action" sound effects (previously, just used the crafting sound effect).
Added a new item break sound effect (separate from general failures).
Added a new sound for crafting and crafting failure.
Added glass and clay baking trays.
Added a new Starter Quest regarding repairing and durability.
Improvements
The effective radius is now displayed when mousing over a scarecrow doodad.
Added an option to disable UI animation. The option to disable UI effects disables animation by default.
Creatures now disappear at the end of their movement animation when moving out of your line of sight, rather than at the start.
Scarecrow items will now exactly match what is placed down as a doodad (previously, it was randomized).
Reduced the volume of the failure sound effect.
Water still tooltips will now reveal if the tile is too cold for the still to function.
Solar stills will now reveal in their tooltips that there is unpurified water in them when placed over shallow water.
The doodad tooltip now mentions whether or not there is a container attached to stills. (Thanks Townfall!)
Changed the default bind for "Toggle Auto-Use" to Ctrl + Right click.
"Bare" trees can now be healed/regenerated just like other growth stages.
Added a sound effect when jumping.
Some tile events now get removed when jumping onto them, like puddles.
Items with seeds will now break with their seeds remaining.
Cooked fish kebabs now return their base components (wooden spear) when destroyed.
Charcoal will now turn into carbon powder when broken.
Tweaked the background behind messages to still fulfil the same purpose, but without being quite as intrusive.
Added indicators via the status effects UI for the last core stat raised for the Statistician modifier and the last rune received for the Runekeeper modifier. (Thanks Andrej27!)
Setting a "Repair" action to be auto-used now only actually uses the action when the target item is at its minimum durability.
A hint now shows in the Stats UI when there are still stats yet to be discovered.
When creatures damage items on the ground, there is a new sound effect and particles to indicate it is happening.
Balance
The Fanaticism magical property has been significantly buffed, now working on the Invoke effect for an additional deity, reducing the cooldown between Invokes, and even reducing the chance that runes are consumed at all.
Random events now no longer happen three times per turn globally across the map, but instead happen twice: once near the player, and once outside the player's area.
The chances that creatures will drop runes on death have been rebalanced across the board to roughly match their difficulty.
Increased time needed to filter water in dripstones, decreased time needed for water stills.
Reduced the mining/chopping effectiveness of all tools that are not pickaxes/axes.
Added a chance to wake up from uncomfortable or extreme temperatures.
Charcoal powder is no longer produced when charcoal is damaged and destroyed from fire.
Reduced spider silk drop chances on giant spiders. Added the ability for trap door spiders to drop spider silk.
Boat paddles can now be fished up randomly.
Decreased the odds of getting "stuck" on Volcanic islands without a boat by modifying loot groups, creature spawning, tree generation and more.
Some items can now break much more easily when thrown.
Drastically improved the conversion rate from one rune tier to the next, which should allow players much greater access to higher-tier runes. Fanaticism gear can still be used to improve the conversion rate further.
Bug Fixes
Fixed random plant events and dryad special abilities not working properly.
Fixed pouring water on the stills with water already in it not extinguishing fire.
Fixed the wrong water type from being created when picking up stills or dripstones in some instances.
Fixed being able to attempt to purify milk.
Fixed decayed items not returning the same unique magical naming when they returned their disassembly items (cooked fish kebabs).
Fixed ash turning into incorrect tile types when dug in certain biomes. (Thanks Ole!)
Fixed not being able to disassemble basalt walls.
Corrected hunger and thirst drain when traveling; this was too high due to the travel time changes. (Thanks Chl!)
Fixed Jelly Cubes not having any slime ball resource drops. (Thanks warriorsforever482!)
Fixed being able to pet slimes way too quickly. (Thanks warriorsforever482!)
Fixed being able to farm an excessive amount of theurgy skill via repeated consecration of the same runes, especially with Fanaticism gear.
The number of full item tooltips that display in the inspect dialog when inspecting a tile is now capped to 8.
Fixed item greying out effect when previewing a stack not working after moving a stack to another container.
Fixed the consecration action saying that the deity is pleased even when you failed to upgrade anything and the total worth of your runes has decreased.
Fixed instances of skill gain proccing multiple times from a single action not also proccing stat gain and rune drop chances multiple times.
Fixed some more container item list desyncs (instances where the item list has to regenerate due to it being incorrect, which costs performance.)
Fixed item highlighting not resetting when hovering over the action bar and from other sources. (Thanks Nama!)
Fixed items getting stuck on the screen. (Thanks Sophie!)
Fixed the stamina stat always being discovered by default.
Fixed the change counts at the top of a changelog displaying weirdly.
Technical
Updated to Electron 38.
Items can now have base components (this system is used for pies), so separate recipes aren't needed for every pie in every different pan and are stacked together.
Replaced the require.js dependency with a custom module loader. Modders: Circular dependencies are no longer possible.
Modding
"Mod.get()" can now be used in the top-level/init context of mod files in order to get the mod's "ModInformation", which will be injected with the mod's instance when available.
Mods
Debug Tools
Added support for the new Curse system.
Original post
17 Aug 2025Developer post
Runekeeper Update #6
Hey all, Tonight, we have a patch ready that fixes that pesky invoking bug among lots of other small fixes and improvements. As per normal, there are also a few new things thrown in for good measure. More to come soon! Have fun! Bonus Tip: Looking to unlock lots of recipes at the
Hey all,

Tonight, we have a patch ready that fixes that pesky invoking bug among lots of other small fixes and improvements. As per normal, there are also a few new things thrown in for good measure. More to come soon!

Have fun!

Bonus Tip: Looking to unlock lots of recipes at the same time? Store your items in chests and position yourself between 7 of them, all surrounding you with lots of different items. New as of this patch, you can now use ALL adjacent chests, including the corners.

Bonus Promo: Check out our feature voting site to vote on plenty of the most requested features to help define our future priorities! https://www.waywardgame.com/vote
New
You can now squish slime balls, which will slow down the movement and skip turns of things that move over it.
Added a new magical property to do with decay values for items and doodads.
Improvements
The "Glowing" magical property now works for items placed onto armor stands.
Overfished areas can now regenerate in larger batches.
Random events now run more frequently in the game.
It is now revealed how much time has passed approximately after traveling.
Open fires and doodads that provide fire now have a maximum stoking value (equal to their maximum decay).
Slime "gelatin" has been renamed to "Slime Ball" and can rarely, passively/actively drop from slimes and jelly cubes.
Contained fire sources like furnaces or kilns for example will no longer share a decay value with any fire that is "on top" of them unlike open fire sources like campfires.
Contained fire sources like furnaces or kilns for example will no longer create fires due to other objects on top of them.
Fire will no longer overflow or propagate onto tiles that have puddles or are water tiles, and doodads that simply provide fire (like furnaces) will no longer be inherently flammable.
Improved shipper performance issues.
Balance
Magical Twine can now improve the minimum and maximum durability of items as it enhances them.
The time (in turns) it takes to travel to another island has been significantly increased.
Paper molds now require fabric to craft.
Some wooden crafts now require wooden dowels.
Open fires now burn out faster than doodads for cooking or using the fire in recipes/disassembling/repairing.
Made some adjustments to the randomness that could add too many creature tiers to islands too close to the starting island. (Thanks Franzi!)
Built torches (doodads) are now considered flammable and can burn (without being lit).
You can no longer add fuel or stoke torches past their normal maximum decay.
Each time an NPC is killed, it takes longer for them to spawn per island.
Bug Fixes
Fixed an error when attempting to invoke runes. (Thanks Words Words Words!)
Fixed many issues with durability when using "Magical Twine". (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed magical motes being able to generate without magical properties when using the "Thaumaturgic" milestone modifier. (Thanks Echora Tallit!)
Fixed some crafts that used wooden planks still requiring a sharpened item instead of a hammer for crafting and disassembling.
Fixed a rare multiplayer desync that could occur when connecting to a game.
Fixed the "Treasurer" milestone modifier incorrectly mentioning "remarkable" piece of armor. (Thanks Lemonboy_free!)
Fixed merchants not dropping their inventory when killed.
Fixed recipes not unlocking properly when using the "Rouseabout" milestone modifier in the "Challenge" mode. (Thanks Vallivanting!)
Fixed fire sometimes spreading or being started on tiles that were already on fire.
Fixed fire elementals being able to light things on fire that shouldn't have been flammable.
Fixed disabling fog in Debug Tools stopping Shippers to navigate towards ports.
Fixed the cloth shirt appearing over pants in some directions. (Thanks Echora Tallit!)
Technical
Upgraded to TypeScript 5.9.
Original post
30 Jun 2025Developer post
Runekeeper Update #5
Today, we are releasing a small-ish update focused on bug fixes primarily, but also improving some user experience items and addressing some common complaints. More to come as always! Bonus tip: Wayward has a save back-up feature built in. By default, the last 10 times your save
Today, we are releasing a small-ish update focused on bug fixes primarily, but also improving some user experience items and addressing some common complaints.
More to come as always!
Bonus tip: Wayward has a save back-up feature built in. By default, the last 10 times your save game file has been saved, a file backup will be available in your Wayward folder within the “backups” folder. More information on this is available here:
View game page
Bonus promo: Like pretty much any game in existence, Wayward is part of the Steam Summer sale. Snag a copy for yourself or a friend at -30% off during the sale:
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New
There is now a world cursor, showing the tile you are selecting for actions.
Improvements
Increased crafting range for adjacent containers to include corners.
You can now excavate when there are no open tiles below you (except in the case of deep water).
Increased the render limit on human equipment. (Thanks tr1ger1n86!)
Ascend/descend now appears at the top of the action menu.
Shippers will now move to lit or unlit lighthouses in the case they ever get lost at sea.
Added a slight background to messages so you know where game screen actions cannot be performed and where message dialog actions can be.
You can now preserve some items that are not edible.
Clay filters now mention what type of water they deal with. (Thanks Treahblade!)
You now "place down" vehicles instead of building them.
Balance
Motes now receive minimum magical property value rolls.
Motes now drop less frequently on non-aberrant creatures.
Ectoplasm, wisp dust, and magical aspect/essence now take slightly more time to decay.
Added a hard merchant cap to each island.
Increased restock rate slightly for merchants.
Bug Fixes
Fixed "exude" items not working properly when multiple of them were in a container at the same time. (Thanks Daxtfer!)
Fixed everybody sleeping in a multiplayer game not properly fast-forwarding time. (Thanks Khadgar!)
Fixed "Start with None" crafting recipes not working properly.
Fixed "Reset Unlocked Crafting Recipes" option not working. (Thanks Khadgar!)
Fixed scarecrow scare radius not being used properly when attempting to spawn creatures. (Thanks Hiran!)
Fixed some potential errors happening when burning items. (Thanks Echora Tallit!)
Fixed some actions not saving the magic item's unique name.
Fixed shippers getting stuck in some situations finding the port. (Thanks Vinn!)
Fixed dug items not gaining any magical properties. (Thanks kustoxv2!)
Fixed a multiplayer desync related to creature commands
Fixed various UI issues when playing as a client in a multiplayer game.
Fixed NPC dialogs staying open while you move away from NPCs when in multiplayer.
Fixed an issue where you couldn't place vehicles down in some cases even though you could ride them.
Fixed NPCs waiting around forever if a multiplayer client leaves while talking to them.
Fixed containers not updating weight when crafting. (Thanks kustoxv2!)
Fixed "Creature Idols" not assigning a territory to the creatures it spawned, causing issues with milestones. (Thanks Markus Faust!)
Fixed reinforcing items with Persistence, losing durability. (Thanks kustoxv2!)
Fixed being able to "ride" a vehicle that is too damaged to match the functionality of placing it down.
Fixed a desync with shipper's inventories. (Thanks Khadgar!)
Fixed a hidden milestone never being revealed.
Fixed some specific crafts not needing fire to disassemble them. (Thanks Kulze!)
Fixed being able to disassemble items without fire when they should have required it as per their original recipe. (Thanks Rheo!)
Fixed trapping not granting kills for quests.
Fixed recipes unlocking normally with Rouseabout. (Thanks Markus Faust!)
Fixed winterberries decaying into two twigs.
Fixed consuming returning disassembled items with the wrong magical properties.
Fixed Persistence items getting incorrect values from doing specific actions like dismantling, digging, etc. (Thanks tr1ger1n86!)
Fixed autosave timing not being accurate. (Thanks tr1ger1n86!)
Fixed repairing sometimes using the fallback to tinkering when it shouldn't have been.
Fixed ranged actions moving tiles when standing on top of a doodad. (Thanks kustoxv2!)
Fixed most actions not working with "Target Hovered Tile" and certain ranged actions like casting and throwing moving to perform the action.
Fixed the idle bind descriptions being outdated. (Thanks Feral Grumpicorn!)
Technical
Improved recipe crafting performance slightly.
Reduced the time it takes to save the game on large saves.
Modding
Fixed "human.turnEnd()" event not always being emitted.

Mods
Debug Tools
Fixed a multiplayer desync when updating creature tamed state.
Fixed the durability not accounting for "Persistence" items.
Original post
13 May 2025Developer post
Runekeeper Update #4
We're starting this week off with the long-awaited Runekeeper Update #4. In this update, you'll find tons of bug fixes of course, but also some brand new systems/content and many improvements as well. There was a big focus on recent suggestions and quality of life changes here. A
We're starting this week off with the long-awaited Runekeeper Update #4. In this update, you'll find tons of bug fixes of course, but also some brand new systems/content and many improvements as well. There was a big focus on recent suggestions and quality of life changes here. And, if you were running into performance issues before, this update should help a lot in that regard too!
More to come as always! The next update will be an even bigger update, likely in the form of the next major update, instead of this mini major update...
Bonus Promo: Join us on Discord! It's the most active place to talk about Wayward: https://discordapp.com/invite/wayward
Bonus Tip: Going forward, crafting recipes are now unlocked automatically as you discover and/or craft new items. You no longer have to have the items in your inventory all at the same time to discover new crafts with them.
New

Magical items are now generated with shorter, unique titles. You can now filter items by their magical property names.

Added a new rare item drop that has a single magical property that is based on the creature it came from.

Added an excavate/collapse action attached to shovels that will allow you to specifically create cave entrances/exits. You can now create new cave exits underground.

Added a new magical property, "Terror" for scarecrows.

You can now see how many turns are left before you can invoke within the item tooltips with 50% Theurgy skill.

You can now see exact creature health values at very high levels of anatomy.

Added a toggleable warning when dumping or dropping items into the void/water.

You can now see your territory tier in the "Other Stats" tooltip.

You can now remove all UI global save data in the "Save Data Removal" options.

Improvements

Milestones now reveal in greater detail their effects.

Added additional alerted icons based on creature difficulty.

Traveling or sleeping can now grow doodads more than one step at a time based on how long you are gone/sleep for.

Added a new property for creatures that dictate their alertness radius for attacking the player, and made some modifications for all creatures.

Caves/lava can no longer be found randomly when digging, except for when digging deep holes. This can no longer happen while mining rock.

The Starter Quest has been updated with new progression due to defaulted action slot changes.

Scarecrows now benefit from their quality to improve their radius.

Scarecrows now reveal their area of effectiveness via tooltips.

Mysterious parchments and magical inscriptions can no longer be upgraded. (Thanks Andrej27!)

Improved the order of tile events so that fire and tumbleweeds would not appear under others or each other.

You can no longer sleep or rest when a hostile creature is next to you. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed some item actions not being usable outside of the main inventory (like transmogrification, altering, enhancing, etc.). (Thanks Hiran!)

Fire will now persist on grass tiles, eventually burning them completely.

You can now butcher things while they are on fire (at risk of burning yourself). (Thanks sechsauge!)

Reduced the delay for ascending and descending cave entrances.

Escape will now cancel out of an item drag.

The milestones dialog now has a warning when milestones can't currently be unlocked. (Thanks DerSimon!)

Improved the tooltips for dripstones.

Added a way to refresh the mod list when Steam overlay is disabled.

Balance

Crafting recipes now also unlock when you have seen all the items that go in a craft, rather than needing them all available in your inventory/adjacent containers.

The reduction of swimming skill gains is now reduced as the skill levels up, making it a lot easier to max out.

Reduced the stamina cost of using wheelbarrows and increased their capacity slightly.

It is now harder (based on skill) to mine for minerals and ores and harder to get logs from trees.

Wells will now regenerate water faster.

The "Crafter" milestone modifier now adds a bit more crafting difficulty.

Some creatures can no longer accept being petted, and some aggressively so.

You now need to dig a deep hole before placing a well.

Increased the base health/strength of merchants.

Fire spreading now transfers a lot less of its decay to adjacent tiles.

Raspberry bushes now contain more raspberries.

Directly offered items no longer need to be crafted by a player to be accepted by a creature to tame them.

Reduced the amount of items that a creature can produce/drop on a tile to 3.

When corpses decay or are removed, items on top of them will sink in water or drop into voids.

Consuming water tiles will now consume the full water amount instead of just rarely, to fix more water exploits. (Thanks Anketam!)

Increased cold insulation on cloaks.

Reduced the durability and cold insulation values on mage robes and added a fire vulnerability to them.

The "Artificer" milestone modifier no longer gives you a magical essence, but rather the ingredients to potentially craft one.

Dryads can now only spawn in territories that are tier 3 and above.

Bug Fixes

Fixed some doodads, allowing certain (very) exploitable actions to be used from a distance. (Thanks quick!)

Fixed durability/decay bars and magical animations not showing at 0.5/0.75 scale. (Thanks chromosomelocomotive!)

Fixed "Persistence" items generating with incorrect durability when gathering. (Thanks DerSimon!)

Fixed the "Masochist" milestone, progressing on deaths from creatures it should not have been. (Thanks Anketam!)

Fixed collapsed caves not showing as collapsed visually when setting down tiles over top of the other side.

Fixed the crafting dialog not updating recipes correctly.

Fixed plant spreading not working properly when sleeping or advancing time. (Thanks psusi!)

Fixed the creature tamed marker disappearing after uncaging a tamed creature.

Fixed auto use actions skipping a tile when last facing a direction instead of moving. (Thanks the_cirada!)

Fixed errors when attempting to consecrate many high-quality runes. (Thanks Hiran!)

Fixed fire and other tile events not being visible over vehicles.

Fixed the default axle type being tin instead of wood for minecarts. (Thanks kustoxv2!)

Fixed copper minecarts being flammable.

Removed certain very heavy items from being offered in merchant inventories, leading to issues refreshing their stock. (Thanks Hiran!)

Fixed carpet and wooden tracks not burning properly.

Fixed tile events not burning properly.

Fixed the durability bar sometimes not updating when reinforcing. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed not being able to use an action using a keybind in the action menu when it was the same as a disabled action. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed torches with hoarding getting incorrect values. (Thanks Hiran!)

Fixed a certain region of the screen not allowing clicks in real-time mode. (Thanks Hiran!)

Fixed allowing magical property "Persistence" items from breaking on repair when protected. (Thanks the_cirada!)

Fixed not being able to pour water or start fires in deep holes. (Thanks Hiran!)

Fixed item decaying not working during travel/sleeping/forwarding events.

Fixed being able to mine certain tile events.

Fixed the wrong object being used in describing a warning when trying to gather from a tile that was on fire.

Fixed tamed creatures slipping through walls. (Thanks typesoshee!)

Fixed a potential error happening when digging. (Thanks Echora Tallit!)

Fixed tile weight limit being checked for items in many instances where it should not have been including player death, container breaking, and more. (Thanks crowsandlions!)

Fixed magical properties not being discovered in some instances like crafting or digging. (Thanks crowsandlions!)

Fixed lighting not getting cleared correctly. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed some creatures that could only be tamed using offered items not getting the correct happiness levels. (Thanks crowsandlions!)

Fixed torch and candle magical properties getting re-rolled when lit. (Thanks AlP!)

Fixed some rare items from not being able to receive the "Aptitude" magical property.

Fixed tooltips not appearing after dragging and dropping an item onto a tile. (Thanks Vombat!)

Fixed some skill milestone modifiers not being checked on game load. (Thanks Markus Faust!)

Fixed hobgoblins setting down traps over water and other inappropriate places. (Thanks riftborn!)

Fixed container weight not updating after traveling. (Thanks Feral Grumpicorn!)

Fixed refining or reading some items not updating container weight. (Thanks Nobody Important!)

Fixed "metabolism potency" not showing properly on item tooltips. (Thanks Anketam!)

Fixed too much glowing/illumination, causing the opposite effect. (Thanks Bad Dreams!)

Fixed the "regeneration" magical property not working on doodads. (Thanks DerSimon!)

Fixed context menu and submenu bindings only sometimes working. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed errors when trying to inspect distant lighthouses. (Thanks Anketam!)

Fixed many memory leaks, causing slowdowns when playing for an extended amount of time. (Thanks TheBlackHand!)

Fixed getting more resources from holes by abusing water routing tactics. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed skipped quests not being completable after the fact, causing them to stay active forever. (Thanks sƃnı̣tNIⱯP!)

Fixed detection of overlay enabled state on Mac & Linux.

Fixed quest requirements not being removed from the pause menu when skipping quests.

Fixed holes appearing underneath plants/doodads from creature spawning. (Thanks DerSimon!)

Fixed path to tile attempting to move over holes. (Thanks DerSimon!)

Fixed the "Luck" stat not having an icon.

Fixed All Follow command text. (Thanks Feral Grumpicorn!)

Fixed indicating an item stack for trade not causing the stacked items to appear if the stack hasn't been opened previously.

Fixed highlighted stack items not appearing if the stack hasn’t been opened yet. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed item menus being broken on stacked items in certain contexts. (Thanks DerSimon!)

Fixed the rest action on "best item" making you move forward a tile.

Fixed a right-click issue on macOS. (Thanks HelixA2!)

Fixed shippers being able to use the cargo they're shipping. (Thanks inquisitiveToast!)

Fixed the game not always loading when using Wayland on Linux.

Fixed auto-use not working correctly when backing up with a wheelbarrow. (Thanks Ursa (lovesthesoundof)!)

Technical

Updated Electron to version 35.

Upgraded to TypeScript 5.8.

Fixed a performance issue related to messages and magical sprite animations. (Thanks Hiran!)

Items in a pile are now culled after a certain amount in a stack. (Thanks the_cirada!)

Modding

Stopped including Typescript dependency when publishing mods. (Thanks muzzy!)

Removed unnecessary rimraf dependency from mods. (Thanks muzzy!)

Mods
Debug Tools

Removed the curse stat (for now).

Magicology

Added an icon for the "Magicology" skill.

Staves no longer weigh as much.

TARS

Fixed getting stuck trying to attach a water container to a water still when there's a flying creature over it.

Fixed getting stuck due to slippery tiles.

Will now prioritize the spawn point location when looking for a location to build a base.

TARS is now less likely to venture to dangerous places.

Fixed TARS getting stuck trying to dig deep holes.

Learned how dripstones actually work.

Improved Quantum Burst Mode speed.

Reduced stuttering when moving.

Fixed the dialog header not always updating when moving.

Will no longer pickup items from dangerous tiles when organizing the base.

Will build at least 1 water still in addition to drip stones.

Fixed various pathing issues.

Will now pick up items when the solar still is blocked.

When looking for water, take into account the amount of time it will take for purification.

Fixed movement issues related to tamed creatures.
Original post
28 Dec 2024Developer post
Runekeeper Update #3
Hello there, I hope you all have enjoyed/are enjoying your holidays! We have another batch of fixes and improvements ready for tonight. Thank you all for your reports and for helping us diagnose and troubleshoot many of these issues. We are continuing to monitor several ongoing i
Hello there, I hope you all have enjoyed/are enjoying your holidays! We have another batch of fixes and improvements ready for tonight. Thank you all for your reports and for helping us diagnose and troubleshoot many of these issues.
We are continuing to monitor several ongoing issues; mostly to deal with memory leaks and container UI desyncs. These likely will continue to persist although will be much improved with this release.
Bonus promo: Check out our feature voting site to vote on plenty of the most requested features to help define our future priorities! https://www.waywardgame.com/vote
Bonus tip: Reputation, karma, benignity, malignity or whatever you want to call it has been removed! Creature difficulty is now based on territories. Creatures get harder and harder as you expand outwards on your island, or if you travel to a new island, creature difficulty will be inversed and get harder as you travel towards the center. Creature territories can be modified using some in-game mechanics related to runes.
Improvements

Improved the action slot tooltip, with new iconography, support for all the different choices for which item to choose, and support for all the different action slot types.

You can now use the "Stoke Fire" action with nearby items, not just items in your inventory.

Bug Fixes

Fixed "Move to Inventory" being an option for an item stack in your inventory if an item stack of the same item type is in another container. (Thanks Sophie!)

Fixed a number of actions menu & action slot memory leaks. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed a container UI desync when an item changes type, such as consuming an apple or gathering liquid. (Thanks Deo!)

Fixed a container UI desync when you pick up an item with your inventory set to "Recent" and the first thing in your inventory being an item stack of a different type.

Fixed a container UI desync when moving a protected item into a recently sorted container with a stack of the same item type at the start.

Fixed item movement actions being unavailable on stacks in protected containers.

Fixed "use hovered item" action slots using the "best" item if the hovered item is invalid. (Thanks whutch!)

Fixed stacked items in protected containers not being handled correctly, causing you to be unable to move a stack out of a protected container. (Thanks DerSimon!)

Fixed stack displays without a number being added to container UI in specific cases. (Thanks Andrej27!)

Being hit by a creature that deals no damage now also discovers the "Defense" stat. (Thanks Sophie!)

Fixed the combination of "Target Hovered Tile" and "Use Best Item" displaying weirdly.

Fixed item type translations sometimes appearing with two icons.

Fixed items that have a damage type but no attack value being able to get "Fire" magical properties. (Thanks inquisitiveToast!)

Fixed the Thaumaturgic milestone modifier not disabling the special magical property count handling from mastercrafted items.

Fixed hostile creatures using cave entrances when alerted and on the same layer as you.

Fixed void dwellers trying to move into other void dwellers.

Fixed action slots that move items around in containers not updating "Use Hovered Item" slots. (Thanks whutch!)

Fixed a specially crafted string payload in chat causing the game to freeze.

Fixed trapdoor spider AI causing the spider to sometimes go back into hiding while chasing you.

Fixed trapdoor spider AI causing the spider to sometimes wander while you're nearby.

Fixed trapdoor spiders giving away their position by revealing that they're alerted. (Thanks Goliat!)

Fixed a multiplayer desync related to creature AI.

Technical

Improved the safety of the event system by heavily encouraging the use of "owner" objects when subscribing. When the "owner" objects are removed or disposed of, any events it subscribed to are also automatically unsubscribed.
Original post
22 Dec 2024Developer post
Runekeeper Update #2
Today we have a patch ready that will hopefully give you all some extra cheer to start off the holidays with plenty of bug fixes and improvements! As always, let us know if you spot any other issues! Bonus tip: You can perform actions automatically as you walk around using action
Today we have a patch ready that will hopefully give you all some extra cheer to start off the holidays with plenty of bug fixes and improvements!
As always, let us know if you spot any other issues!
Bonus tip: You can perform actions automatically as you walk around using action slots. If you are checking out this update as a brand-new player or coming back with no previous save data, you’ll see a couple of these actions already added to your action slot by default. If not, simply configure an action slot using right-click and checking the “Auto-Use” option. This can be used to emulate the previous “Auto pick-up” option.
Bonus promo: The Steam winter sale is upon us! Wayward is currently -30% off until January 2nd.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/379210/Wayward
Improvements

New players will now get default actions assigned in action slots to hopefully help the player learn basic actions and UI.

There are now direct keyboard hotkeys (which can be rebound) to pick up an item "Ctrl + G" or pick up all items "G".

You no longer need to discover 20 actions in order for the "Auto-Use" option to become available.

Removed outdated help information on picking up items. (Thanks Ursa (lovesthesoundof))!

Bug Fixes

Fixed action slots not working sometimes. (Thanks muzzy!) (For both the initial report and figuring out how to reproduce it consistently.)

Fixed an additional edge case with scrolling that led to zooming in that direction no longer working and also broke action slots. (Thanks Feral Grumpicorn!)

Fixed an issue where tooltips would be duplicated. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed the sort dropdown in container dialogs saying a different sort than the collapsed label when first opening the dialog.

Fixed some container UI desyncs. (Thanks inquisitiveToast!)

Fixed throwing not getting the correct damage type. (Thanks inquisitiveToast!)

Fixed some action bar setup weirdness when dragging items into slots — could cause things like empty slots with an action in the corner, or cause the action you're trying to assign to clear the item, or cause the item to clear the action even when they're perfectly compatible. (Thanks Vallivanting!)

Fixed a rare case of infinite recursion when hovering over a "Use Hovered Item" action slot. (Thanks Goliat!)

Fixed container weight as displayed in the dialog becoming incorrect after travelling. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed items not updating after/when traveling.

Fixed rare multiplayer desyncs when traveling.

Fixed cut hide not being flammable. (Thanks DerSimon!)

Fixed the "ascend" or "descend" action showing up in the tile context menu for tiles other than cave entrances.

Fixed importing custom game options reducing multiplier values. (Thanks Ghon!)

Fixed dedicated servers showing "1" players when 0 players were connected and other server stat inconsistencies.

Fixed gathering piles of rocks using the botany skill. (Thanks Crows!)

Fixed some tyypos. (Thanks TheBlackHand!)

Technical

All entities and tiles now have a "debug" object that can be printed in the console with the ".debug" property, a much cleaner representation of the data for each object than the actual object instance.

Added the "ref(refId)" function for use in the console, for resolving the object of a particular reference ID.

Mods
Debug Tools

Using the "inspect" bind now assigns all inspected entities and the tile to variables in the console to make debugging easier.

TARS

Fixed some navigation issues related to slipping on ice.

Improved how items are moved into backpacks.

Fixed issues building solar stills & sailboats.

Improved corpse butchering.

Improved where it builds sailboats.
Original post
18 Dec 2024Developer post
Runekeeper Update #1
Tonight we are releasing a small patch to address some of the issues found so far in Runekeeper . More to come as always after a big major update! Bonus tip: You can combine items into stacks within your inventory by using Ctrl + left-click on the item you want to stack. You can
Tonight we are releasing a small patch to address some of the issues found so far in Runekeeper. More to come as always after a big major update!
Bonus tip: You can combine items into stacks within your inventory by using Ctrl + left-click on the item you want to stack. You can change this binding in the options.
Bonus promo: We are now on Bluesky! Follow us here: https://bsky.app/profile/waywardgame.bsky.social
New

You can now use shift + scroll to move stacked items to or from the active inventory.

Improvements

“Repeat from action history” mode now turns itself off when doing anything other than repeating an action to prevent accidental usage. (Thanks muzzy!)

Added support for displaying the correct keys for alternate keyboard layouts. (Thanks muzzy!)

Coastal water-based templates now feature gravel instead of dirt.

Cave entrances now attempt to be surrounded by more passable tiles.

Added the ability to get runes through dismantling.

The Ascend or Descend action is no longer discovered by default for new players in order to further simplify the initial actions drawer, and must be instead discovered by right-clicking (or using the spacebar in front of) a cave entrance and using the action, or by using the dedicated Ascend or Descend binding.

Balance

Increased the amount of natural cave spawns across all biomes.

Reduced or removed the chance of gaining runes based on the tier of territory you are in.

The "Auto Pickup While Moving" option has been removed in favour of the action slot "Auto-Use" and "Target Hovered Tile" options, which obey the same turn-passing rules as manually picking up items.

Bug Fixes

Fixed the Starter Quest not working properly in certain situations. (Thanks K4_E!)

Fixed quickmoving items to containers with an "open" stack of the same type causing a desync where the new items either display at the start or the end.

Fixed "Dig" and "Enchant" actions not properly awarding runes.

Fixed a multiplayer desync that occurred when joining a game while another player was resting.

Fixed being able to import milestone modifiers that aren't unlocked. (Thanks ApocRider!)

Fixed choosing an action in the actions drawer not defaulting the "Target Hovered Tile" option to the correct state.

Various item bindings are now disabled entirely when dragging an item to hopefully prevent some UI edge cases. (Thanks muzzy!)

Reduced the chance of the starting water source from the Starter Quest going into the ocean.

Fixed the "bleeding" status effect overlay not working.

Fixed an infinitely long durability bar when dragging an item that's about to break. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed non-modifier action slots being used when releasing the modifier first of a modifier action slot. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed creatures not becoming alerted when attacking you.

Fixed explored areas on the map not always getting revealed in multiplayer games.

Fixed the pause button being invisible with certain options set. (Thanks Soul5hadows!)

Fixed being able to gain "Theurgy" skill by refining or reinforcing runes. (Thanks Rheo!)

Fixed the Runekeeper milestone modifier only updating the "last received rune" when receiving multiple runes at once. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed the Runekeeper milestone only progressing when receiving multiple runes at once. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed the Doctor milestone not being possible to progress. (Thanks muzzy!)

Modding

Re-enabling a mod will now re-initialize languages and stylesheets. (Thanks GWIDON!)

Mods
TARS

Fixed a multiplayer desync when traveling to another island.

Fixed TARS not idling correctly in multiplayer games.

Now tries to stay off ice & other slippery surfaces.

Fixed getting stuck when connected to a multiplayer game while encumbered.

Fixed navigation issues when using sailboats/swimming.

Improved objective planning.

Fixed an infinite loop when trying to gather water.
Original post
17 Dec 2024GamingOnLinux
Wilderness survival roguelike Wayward adds creature territories, deities, item stacking and lots more
Wayward is an Early Access wilderness survival roguelike that's highly rated by players, and it just had a massive update launch with "Runekeeper". Read the full article here:
14 Dec 2024Developer post
Major Update "Runekeeper" Released
Welcome to "Runekeeper", the biggest update to date! If you have been following along through the updates and newsletters, you will know that through many iterations and scraped ideas, we finally have a replacement for reputation: creature territories. Creatures and difficulty wi
Welcome to "Runekeeper", the biggest update to date!
If you have been following along through the updates and newsletters, you will know that through many iterations and scraped ideas, we finally have a replacement for reputation: creature territories. Creatures and difficulty will increase as you move out into different parts of the island or travel to new ones. You can also modify this system slightly using a new mechanic involving runes and deities (there's a mini spoiler in the new trailer below). Be free, and play however you want now without having to worry about managing your reputation! Share your thoughts on this new system or on any of the other changes we put out this time around. It's a big one!
We also have a new trailer for 2024/2025 (it's close enough, right?).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arpFIS7cXHs
Some stand-out features this time around include:
Creatures now have simplistic "territories" — creatures near your spawn point are now easier than creatures far away, and creatures will stay in their original areas more often.
You have attracted the attention of multiple unknown forces — deities. As you survive and make decisions, these deities will award you with tokens in their likeness. Invoke them, and in turn, receive their blessing.
You can now "stack" and "unstack" like items. Item stacks display as if they are the first item in the stack (respecting your sort), with a quantity of how many total items are in the stack. You can press "ctrl" to temporarily expand the stack your mouse is over.
Added wheelbarrows, allowing you to push and pull additional storage.
Added armor stands, allowing you to store armor and weapon sets visually with the ability to quick-swap certain builds.
You can now right-click on any visible location to perform actions there, your character will automatically walk to wherever they need to.
Added a new action bar that gets filled with context menu action history as you play.
Merchant trading has been redesigned.
The full ~~novel~~ changelog can be read through below:
New

Creatures now have simplistic "territories" — creatures near your spawn point are now easier than creatures far away, and creatures will stay in their original areas more often.

You have attracted the attention of multiple unknown forces — deities. As you survive and make decisions, these deities will award you with tokens in their likeness. Invoke them, and in turn, receive their blessing.

You can now "stack" and "unstack" like items. Item stacks display as if they are the first item in the stack (respecting your sort), with a quantity of how many total items are in the stack. You can press "ctrl" to temporarily expand the stack your mouse is over.

Added wheelbarrows, allowing you to push and pull additional storage.

Added armor stands, allowing you to store armor and weapon sets visually with the ability to quick-swap certain builds.

You can now right-click on any visible location to perform actions there, your character will automatically walk to wherever they need to.

Added a new action bar that gets filled with context menu action history as you play.

Merchant trading has been redesigned.

The stats layout has been reworked, associating status effects with their related stats and providing stat names.

Added primitive musical instruments that can be used to command multiple creatures at a time.

Added a tamed status icon above tamed creatures.

There is now a visual on the depth when digging.

Added a new option to make action slots be used on the tile you're mousing over.

Status effect iconography has been redesigned, allowing players to more easily know at a glance how threatening a new effect is.

The actions drawer now supports selecting a specific item type from a list of all discovered item types, and selecting a range of qualities.

Added "Thaumaturgic", a new milestone and modifier for finding every type of magical property.

All containers now have a "dump contents" action.

Added bindings for toggling whether individual static UI components are visible (like the action bar, messages, etc.) These bindings are not set by default.

Added animal cartilage, and new food recipes/food preservation through the use of gelatin crafted from cartilage or shark fins.

Ice and puddles (on certain terrain) are now slippery and will cause slippery movement for players (with certain footwear) and some creatures, more so if jumped upon.

Added a binding for toggling whether all auto-use action slots are enabled.

Added conifer resins, pitch, and glue for use in new recipes and reinforcing.

Added a new magical property "persistence" which increases max item durability far beyond normal means among other bonuses.

Magical Binding now has a new action and use involving attack and defense bonuses.

Added the Afflicted and Exsanguinated milestones.

You can now set an action slot to "Use Hovered Item", allowing you to set up slots to quickly use actions on hovered items.

Status effect tooltips have been completely redesigned, providing more information and presenting it more clearly.

Added a new "shadowy" creature.

Added a permanent notifier for when creatures are alerted, red exclamation point for hostile, yellow for scared.

You can now set maxed skills as your in-game title.

Added a "heel" or "follow, but don't attack" command for tamed creatures.

Ranged actions can now be used at any angle.

All container dialogs throughout the game (your inventory, held containers, container doodads, vehicles, NPCs) have been ported to the new UI system, fixing some longstanding issues and improving performance.

All stats are now inspectable, providing general information on how the stat works, along with new information such as their related core stat and the skills you can use to improve them.

Added a new stat "potency" equipped magical property that increases the bonuses that items provide when used.

Added a new milestone & modifier "Statistician" for discovering the stats that each skill can raise.

Added a new custom game option for disabling scared creature mechanics.

Added a new type of skeleton with unique item drops that can appear from skeletal remains based on the current zone/tier.

Added crucibles, a new device for smelting ores.

Added a bindable to "Toggle Tooltips Visible", with no bindings by default. (Thanks Hiran!)

Added the "Runekeeper" milestone and modifier.

Added luck, a new stat affecting chances. There are not many places where luck currently takes effect, nor many things that modify luck — this will be expanded on later.

There is a new custom creature spawn rate multiplier option that will allow you to scale the rate at which creatures spawn including disabling it altogether.

Added a custom game option to enable viewing container dialogs for the items on the tile you're facing.

Added an audio cue when encumbered or overburdened.

Added sandstone arrows and arrowheads.

The chance to craft mastercrafted items is now revealed at 100% skill.

Added a "Skip Quest" button to the Starter Quest.

The skills dialog now displays skill icons & can be resized to display multiple columns.

Added a rare, secret challenge modifier.

Added eggshells (for chicken and penguin eggs), a new form of compost.

Added a challenge modifier for starting at sunset.

Added a new challenge modifier "Cursed!"

There are now modifiers in challenge mode for spawning in other biomes.

Added a multiplayer option to pause the server when desync occurs.

Added a Steam beta dropdown to developer options.

Added a setting to disable item notifiers.

Added stripped leather, a new high-tier cordage.

Each island now progresses or "ticks" independently.

Minecarts can now push other minecarts. The faster the tier of minecart, the more minecarts can be pushed.

Added an automatically updating notice when launching the development branch of the game.

Added several new sound effect variations around inventory management.

Added a new milestone, "Curator" for discovering every item quality.

Added the "Dedicated" milestone and milestone modifier, allowing players to set one that raises faster than all others, while the rest raise very slowly.

Added "gamemoderun" support.

Added OLED burn-in protection for HUD/UI elements.

Added a new help article about "Item Protection".

Added two new milestones and modifiers to do with creature spawn rates.

The "Move All" and "Move All of Quality" actions can now be bound to the action bar.

Added notifiers when dual-wielding is enabled/disabled.

Added fish bones and glue.

You can now drag actions from context menus to the action bar.

Added two new books.

Added aberrant versions of all fish.

Improvements

Tamed creatures now smartly follow you through cave entrances.

The "Path to Tile: Preview" bindable has been removed in favor of it working automatically based on the modifiers of the "Path to Tile" bindable. IE, if you have "Path to Tile" set to "Shift + Click", it will automatically show the path preview on "Shift."

Doodads used in crafts can now receive the "Aptitude" magical property.

The "Grab All" button has been changed to a "Move All" button on all dialogs, transferring to the current quick-move target.

The "Best for Crafting" sort is now more accurately calculated to include "Aptitude" items. (Thanks Andrej27!)

There is now a chance for looted bags/backpacks to contain some items.

Each item will now have an associated skill (or skills) so that actions taken upon it (like refining) will use a more closely related skill. (Thanks DragonOvLeaves!)

Players will no longer be woken up from rest/sleep if the player around them can't actually get to them.

Added a visual for "over-fished" tiles.

The default control for idle is now "." and "Spacebar" now opens the action menu for the facing tile. (Thanks muzzy!)

The default bind for toggling auto-use on an action slot has been changed to CTRL + Space instead of just ALT (to prevent accidental hover inputs).

Reworked trapdoor spider AI. They are no longer hidden by default, instead choosing locations to hide in. They no longer move while hidden, and will sometimes come out of hiding to go somewhere else.

Civilization score is now done per zone in addition to the whole island, impacting the creature spawning of individual areas in the island.

Reimplemented the "Uses:" list for item tooltips, reducing noise and improving visual consistency.

Fire now has a chance to produce particle effects when damaging doodads or items.

"Reference links" in the game's text, such as the hoverable links to items, creatures, doodads, skills, etc, now display a new "help" cursor to indicate that they are clickable for more information.

Random creature movement has been reworked to feel less random and more like creatures deciding to move to specific places.

You can now see the stack of tiles when inspecting them.

Attack stats in tooltips now display values for main-hand and off-hand use. (Thanks Andrej27!)

Renamed all "Toggle X" actions to "X or Y", for example, "Toggle Container" is now "Open or Close Container."

Individual stats are now discovered for new players as they progress through the game.

You can now disable the warning when attempting to gather from plants with no resources. (Thanks Hiran!)

You can now disable the game playing audio in the background. (Thanks Kowalth!)

The item that an action slot will use is now displayed on the action slot. Action slots set to use the "best item" show a star above the action.

Spawned creatures from items will now have some despawn protection. (Thanks DragonOvLeaves!)

The Steam overlay is now more consistently implemented and will no longer report itself working in some cases where it did not.

The various "Drop on Action" gameplay settings now support the "Drop into Containers" option.

Tamed creatures now move around less when near the player/not busy with another task.

Deep holes will allow water to be routed 100% of the time.

Players with high taming skills can see the exact turn count when creatures untame at.

You can now see how many times you've tamed or petted a tamed creature.

All previous mechanics involving reputation (such as claw worm spawning, treasure chest creature difficulty, and creature spawning in general) are now based on the zone's tier you are in.

Tooltip headers have been redesigned to improve consistency and user experience between them.

The "Range" and "Attack" that are specified in tooltips for weapons/tools will now update dynamically based on skill.

When two items have the same effective tier for an action, instead of choosing the one of higher quality as the "best" item, the game now chooses the item with the higher base action tier (ie, the action tier when the item is normal quality), due to the base being higher implying that the item is better suited for the action. (Thanks riftborn!)

Stat gain messages now display the skill that caused them to raise.

The Doctor milestone modifier has been reworked into something a bit more interesting.

When a creature is regenerating or healing from a damage type and they are already at maximum health, it will now show a +0 (instead of -0).

There are now actions for moving the contents of containers (in both doodad & item form) between containers and to your inventory.

Petting will now also increase the creature's maximum health (to a much lesser extent than re-taming/offering).

Shippers will now spawn closer to lit lighthouses.

Drawn maps are no longer stocked on merchants. (Thanks Dewred!)

The Doctor milestone has been reworked to now be a discovery milestone and requires discovering all possible cures. Its information is displayed in status tooltips.

Added a dedicated, toggleable option for "Disable Modifier Unlock Requirements" that is not locked behind Developer Mode, so players that don't want content locked behind milestones don't have to use a developer option to mark them all as completed.

Lava is now lit with a darker shade of orange/red.

Resting or sleeping will no longer reset hunger/thirst timers so they immediately tick down after one turn while resting/sleeping.

Added an option to disable the quit confirmation in cases where save data would not be lost.

Dismantling hide now uses the "Leatherworking" skill instead of "Tailoring".

Tweaked and made consistent the color of bone items.

Added an animation to the "till" and "pack ground" actions. (Thanks riftborn!)

Dripstones and stills now have variable turns taken for desalination based on type.

Multiplayer "Error code 2" now reveals the issue and potential fix for the user and/or server admin.

The snow scarecrow will now leave behind non-meltable items when melted.

When an item with a colored border (ie, by quality or by it nearly being destroyed or decayed) is highlighted, the border now is a brighter version of the normal color. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fishing a tile that cannot support any fish or items will now say so (instead of saying overfished).

Gathering no longer automatically picks up items.

Mud is now spawned around swamps and will be located under swamp tiles when dug.

Trapdoor spiders and claw worms now produce holes when revealed or spawned.

Protection now persists through building and picking up items, for example, building a sailboat, riding it, and then picking it back up.

Discovering an item of a new quality now displays a celebratory message.

Items of undiscovered qualities on the ground now appear as the closest discovered quality instead of a "?"

When tiles are referenced in messages/tooltips, they will now show their quality, magical status, renamed names and more.

The "Replay" button will now reset turn modes and multiplayer options.

Added tooltips for all buttons on the action bar.

Menu sections are now highlighted when scrolled to via a section button.

Damage notifier icons are now shown on heavily damaged items when thrown or fired on the tile instead of above the player.

Dripstones and stills now show a purification counter in their tooltip.

Rewrote the "not suitable to plant" message so that it makes sense when trying to plant a coconut. (Thanks Shim Panzé!)

Equipped lit torches now provide heat.

Swapping positions with creatures no longer causes an extra delay.

Reduced the chance of merchants saying they had new stock after they already equipped or consumed it.

Creatures will now keep a total of how many pets they have received which will impact (in addition to times tamed) command unlocks, taming chances, and more.

Added a new "leaves" group which goats will now accept.

"Drop All" and "Move All" action slot actions now use what is filtered in the player's inventory.

Move/drop all binds and actions no longer move/drop equipped items.

To help the user experience working through a quest line, "Next Quest:" buttons are now pinned to messages, ensuring that the player views the quest text as their pinned quest requirements update.

The same item(s) can be traded back and forth several times between a merchant and a player at a cost penalty.

Organic tiles will now always provide static resources when dug to better conform with doodads/plant resources. (Thanks DanekJovax!)

Protected items that can't be used in crafting and dismantling will no longer be counted in the crafting/dismantle tooltip. (Thanks Feral Grumpicorn!)

Changed some default action binds away from WASD keys, for example, Dismantle and Disassemble which caused many accidental actions.

Multiple random items sourced from the same milestone modifier or challenge modifier into the same container are no longer duplicates.

Some items are now excluded for random item milestone modifiers.

Added a "Days" or "Nights" counter to the ferocity tooltip/inspection.

The message log now supports infinite scroll, loading additional messages as necessary.

The message log no longer forcibly keeps you at the latest message if you're trying to look at earlier messages. Scrolling back down to the latest message locks the scroll there again.

The message log has been reimplemented for performance.

Action slots no longer automatically switch to "best item" until you attempt to use the slot a second time. (Thanks muzzy!)

Efficacy, success, quality chances and percentages are no longer shown when not meeting the requirements (as they were not accurate).

The "worth" magical property now has a greater range of values possible.

Magical doodads and bookcases that grant skill bonuses are now shown in the skill tooltips. (Thanks DanekJovax!)

Killing creatures via traps, tamed creatures, or fire now provides the correct loot quality bonuses. (Thanks Art Shrival!)

The "Hide Equipped Headgear" option now hides your equipped headgear for other players too (only if PVP is disabled.)

You can now cage untamed creatures which uses the trapping skill and the creature's difficulty as a chance modifier.

Cages now have different action tiers based on type/quality.

Creatures now have an innate "worth" when caged to be used for trading and other purposes.

Fires will now be more visible on tiles that contain items. (Thanks DerSimon!)

Advancing island turns is now nearly instant at the cost of accuracy.

Grabbing or clicking on an item from a container no longer makes the container active, allowing you to use the item "quick-move" feature between containers.

Desktop users of Steam Deck will now be able to do normal desktop functions like toggling fullscreen mode and exporting local save files. (Thanks Geschrieben!)

"Swords" are now referred to as "short swords".

"Leather Hide" is now just "Hide" and "Tanned Leather" is now just "Leather".

Void now displays as a separate unique graphic in maps.

Health vignetting no longer shows in screenshot mode.

Being hit additional times while delayed no longer increases your delay further.

Added a message for when pouring water on a creature/player had no effect.

Puddles now provide audio/visual cues when stepped on.

"Enable Smooth Zooming" is now disabled when "Disable Movement Animations" is enabled.

Piles of rocks now use the "mine" action instead of "chop" as their tool-based gather action.

Container dialogs are no longer closed and reopened when changing state, such as when picking up a chest, or boarding/dismounting vehicles. The sort & sort direction now also persist between the states.

The optional smooth zoom animation is now curved, starting fast and slowing down near the end, to make it feel better to use.

Doodads that will be destroyed on pick-up will now warn you. (Thanks riftborn!)

Picking up any vehicle will now only damage them by 1 instead of their damage multiplier.

Improved support for slow multiplayer connections.

You can now use the mouse to organize all items of a type or quality within a single container.

You can now navigate backward and forward through your Inspect dialog inspection history.

You can now sort skills by "recent".

The milestones dialog now displays milestone icons & can be resized to display multiple columns.

Added particle effects to crafting/dismantling/disassembling actions with colors based on the item.

NPCs will now prefer to attack their attacker instead of the nearest player.

"Animal Glue" is now "Bone Glue" and will only require bones instead of bones and offal.

The "Keep Sort Active" option has been replaced with simply persisting the selected sort in containers. When manually reordering items, the sort changes to display "Custom" instead of a sort, as no sort is active anymore.

The doodad version of "skill" magical properties will now have an "encircling" affix.

Doodads that block the line of sight will now illuminate their surrounding tiles properly when on fire. (Thanks muzzy!)

Some milestones are now hidden entirely until you complete previous milestones, to make the milestones dialog a bit less overwhelming. (IE Survivor reveals Weathered reveals Seasoned.)

New items were added to the challenge mode's "get item" quests.

Options for the action bar are now accessible via a new button alongside the "+" and "-" buttons.

Improved the performance of displaying non-craftable items, and of dimming out irrelevant items in containers when one or more are highlighted.

Improved performance of tooltips.

Orb of Influence has been renamed to "Cracked Orb" to be used as a new magical component for unlocking the "alter" action.

The "active container" highlight is now a tab on the side of containers. You can click the tab to manually set the active container instead of using the container the game thinks is best.

The "open container" action now makes the container active if it's already open.

"Copal" has been removed and replaced with "Hide Glue" with similar uses/efficacy.

Updated "A Powdery Catalog" book. (Thanks Feral Grumpicorn!)

When building or picking up containers, the container dialog now stays open.

The skills and milestones dialogs now save their sort options when reloading the game. (Thanks 柯箴之!)

The "days" shown on server details now are a cumulative total and average respectively across all islands.

NPCs can no longer spawn within the line of sight of a player.

"Dig With Hands" is no longer available on piles of rocks or other doodads. (Thanks muzzy!)

Changed the "Rest" action to auto-use only when you have the "tired" status effect.

"Gather With Hands" now has a description.

Trampling fire now produces messages for partial/failure events.

Equipment slots and action slots can now be inspected with the Inspect dialog.

The islands dialog now displays waves as decorations between the islands.

Updated the appearance of the weight tooltip.

You will now receive a warning when overwatering small plants. (Thanks Zeτα!)

Holding alt while slotting an item or action in the action bar now slots it with auto-use enabled.

Container weight is now revalidated on reload (for save compatibility). (Thanks Veeyu!)

NPCs will now attempt to move off of dangerous tiles.

The "dangerous" creature tier has been renamed to "vicious" to differentiate it from the "danger level" mechanic.

You can now sort milestones by "recent".

Puddles now decay faster if walked on, but last a bit longer by default.

Action slots containing an item now highlight when the mouse is over the item in your inventory.

Useful item hover binds are now described in the inventory management help article.

Your carry & max weight are now displayed in your inventory dialog with a tooltip.

Updated some old references in the help articles.

You can now click on most tooltip links to open that tooltip in the "Inspect" dialog, rather than needing to press shift+right click in all cases.

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16 Oct 2024Developer post
Development Branch Update (Part 2!)
As described in the latest newsletter , the development branch has been out for quite some time now, but we were waiting on addressing some issues before announcing an update in this post. The creature spawning/reputation/rune changes are in and after going through some iteration
As described in the latest newsletter, the development branch has been out for quite some time now, but we were waiting on addressing some issues before announcing an update in this post. The creature spawning/reputation/rune changes are in and after going through some iterations, is at a good level of polish now. We have also been adding tons of new things as well (like usual). Just a recap for those not following along:

Reputation AND alignment are gone!

Creature spawning is now based on territories/zones. Read more about that here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/wayward/announcements/detail/4346622097173088568

New stat and status effect UI/tooltip system.

Tile targeting for actions (including ranged targeting).

Runes and deities now have unique effects to do with creature spawning.

Less bugs?

More bugs?

There's a few issues that are remaining, but we are getting close to a new release! If you are feeling like doing a playthrough with the new system in place, we would love to hear your feedback!
Here Be ~~Dragons~~ Drakes
As always, we would encourage you to back up your saves before trying this development branch of the game. By default, you can find your backups and save folders in the main Wayward directory. You can also export saves and global save data in-game if needed.
More information on how to change branches here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=721479594
Report any issues you spot!
Here’s the ever-growing, largely unsorted changelog thus far:
New

Creatures now have simplistic "territories" — creatures near your spawn point are now easier than creatures far away, and creatures will stay in their original areas more often.

You have attracted the attention of multiple unknown forces — deities. As you survive and make decisions, these deities will award you with tokens in their likeness. Invoke them, and in turn receive their blessing.

You can now "stack" and "unstack" like items. Item stacks display as if they are the first item in the stack (respecting your sort), with a quantity of how many total items are in the stack. You can press "ctrl" to temporarily expand the stack your mouse is over.

Added wheelbarrows, allowing you to push and pull additional storage.

Added armor stands, allowing you to store armor and weapon sets visually with the ability to quick-swap certain builds.

Added a new action bar that gets filled with context menu action history as you play.

You can now right click on any visible location to perform actions there, your character will automatically walk to wherever they need to.

Merchant trading has been redesigned.

The actions drawer now supports selecting a specific item type from a list of all discovered item types, and selecting a range of qualities.

Added a tamed status icon above tamed creatures.

The stats layout has been reworked, associating status effects with their related stats and providing stat names.

Added conifer resins, pitch, and glue for use in new recipes and reinforcing.

Added primitive musical instruments that can be used to command multiple creatures at a time.

Status effect iconography has been redesigned, allowing players to more easily know at a glance how threatening a new effect is.

Added animal cartilage, and new food recipes/food preservation through the use of gelatin crafted from cartilage or shark fins.

Magical Binding now has a new action and use involving attack and defense bonuses.

Added "Thaumaturgic", a new milestone and modifier for finding every type of magical property.

Added luck, a new stat affecting chances. There are not many places where luck currently takes effect, nor many things that modify luck — this will be expanded on later.

All containers now have a "dump contents" action.

Added a bindable to "Toggle Tooltips Visible", with no bindings by default. (Thanks Hiran!)

Added bindings for toggling whether individual static UI components are visible (like the action bar, messages, etc.) These bindings are not set by default.

Added a binding for toggling whether all auto-use action slots are enabled.

Added "gamemoderun" support.

Added the Afflicted and Exsanguinated milestones.

Status effect tooltips have been completely redesigned, providing more information and presenting it in a clearer way.

Ranged actions can now be used at any angle.

Added a new option to make action slots be used on the tile you're mousing over.

All stats are now inspectable, providing general information on how the stat works, along with new information such as their related core stat and the skills you can use to use to improve them.

Added a new stat "potency" equipped magical property that increases the bonuses that items provide when used.

Added a new milestone & modifier "Statistician" for discovering the stats that each skill can raise.

Added eggshells (for chicken and penguin eggs), a new form of compost.

Added stripped leather, a new high-tier cordage.

There is now a visual on the depth when digging.

You can now set an action slot to "Use Hovered Item", allowing you to set up slots to quickly use actions on hovered items.

Added a new custom game option for disabling scared creature mechanics.

There is a new custom creature spawn rate multiplier option that will allow you to scale the rate at which creatures spawn including disabling it altogether.

Added a custom game option to enable viewing container dialogs for the items on the tile you're facing.

Added sandstone arrows and arrowheads.

Added a new "shadowy" creature.

Added a "Skip Quest" button to the Starter Quest.

Added a rare, secret challenge modifier.

Added a challenge modifier for starting at sunset.

Added a new challenge modifier "Cursed!"

There are now modifiers in challenge mode for spawning in other biomes.

Added a multiplayer option to pause server when desync occurs.

Each island now progresses or "ticks" independently.

Added a new help article about "Item Protection".

Added an automatically updating notice to launching the development branch of the game.

Added a number of new sound effect variations around inventory management.

Added the "Runekeeper" milestone and modifier.

Added a new milestone, "Curator" for discovering every item quality.

Added the "Dedicated" milestone and milestone modifier, allowing players to set one that raises faster than all others, while the rest raise very slowly.

Added OLED burn-in protection for HUD/UI elements.

The skills dialog now displays skill icons & can be resized to display multiple columns.

Added two new milestones and modifiers to do with creature spawn rates.

The "Move All" and "Move All of Quality" actions can now be bound to the action bar.

Added an audio cue when encumbered or overburdened.

You can now set maxed skills as your in-game title.

Added notifiers when dual-wielding is enabled/disabled.

Added fish bones and glue.

You can now drag actions from context menus to the action bar.

Added two new books.

The chance to craft mastercrafted items is now revealed at 100% skill.

Minecarts can now push other minecarts. The faster the tier of minecart, the more minecarts can be pushed.

Added aberrant versions of all fish.

Added a new magical property "persistence" which increases max item durability far beyond normal means among other bonuses.

Added a new type of skeleton with unique item drops that can appear from skeletal remains based on the current zone/tier.

Added crucibles, a new device for smelting ores.

Added a "heel" or "follow, but don't attack" command for tamed creatures.

Ice and puddles (on certain terrain) are now slippery and will cause slippery movement for players (with certain footwear) and some creatures, more so if jumped upon.

All container dialogs throughout the game (your inventory, held containers, container doodads, vehicles, NPCs) have been ported to the new UI system, fixing some longstanding issues and improving performance.

Improvements

The Steam overlay is now more consistently implemented and will no longer report itself working in some cases where it did not.

Each item will now have an associated skill (or skills) so that actions taken upon it (like refining) will use a more closely related skill. (Thanks DragonOvLeaves!)

Renamed all "Toggle X" actions to "X or Y", for example "Toggle Container" is now "Open or Close Container."

Rewrote the "not suitable to plant" message so that it makes sense when trying to plant a coconut. (Thanks Shim Panzé!)

The "Best for Crafting" sort is now more accurately calculated to include "Aptitude" items. (Thanks Andrej27!)

Tamed creatures now smartly follow you through cave entrances.

Shippers will now spawn closer to lit lighthouses.

The "Path to Tile: Preview" bindable has been removed in favor of it working automatically based on the modifiers of the "Path to Tile" bindable. IE, if you have "Path to Tile" set to "Shift + Click", it will automatically show the path preview on "Shift."

Added an option to disable the quit confirmation in cases where save data would not be lost.

Added a dedicated, toggleable option for "Disable Modifier Unlock Requirements" that is not locked behind Developer Mode, so players that don't want content locked behind milestones don't have to use a developer option mark them all as completed.

Reworked trapdoor spider AI. They are no longer hidden by default, instead choosing locations to hide in. They no longer move while hidden, and will sometimes come out of hiding to go somewhere else.

Spawned creatures from items will now have some despawn protection. (Thanks DragonOvLeaves!)

Drawn maps are no longer stocked on merchants. (Thanks Dewred!)

The Doctor milestone modifier has been reworked into something a bit more interesting.

The Doctor milestone has been reworked to now be a discovery milestone and require discovering all possible cures. Its information is displayed in status tooltips.

You can now disable the game playing audio in the background. (Thanks Kowalth!)

The light color from cave entrances is now matched the biome's fog color.

Lava is now lit with a darker shade of orange/red.

Random creature movement has been reworked to feel less random and more like creatures deciding to move to specific places.

The "Grab All" button has been changed to a "Move All" button on all dialogs, transferring to the current quick-move target.

Civilization score is now done per zone in addition to the whole island, impacting the creature spawning of individual areas in the island.

The various "Drop on Action" gameplay settings now support the "Drop into Containers" option.

"Reference links" in the game's text, such as the hoverable links to items, creatures, doodads, skills, etc, now display a new "help" cursor to indicate that they are clickable for more information.

Tooltip headers have been redesigned to improve consistency and user experience between them.

All previous mechanics involving reputation (such as claw worm spawning, treasure chest creature difficulty, creature spawning in general) are now based on the zone's tier you are in.

Stat gain messages now display the skill that caused them to raise.

When a creature is regenerating or healing from a damage type and they are already at maximum health, it will now show a +0 (instead of -0).

Reimplemented the "Uses:" list for item tooltips, reducing noise and improving visual consistency.

Individual stats are now discovered for new players as they progress through the game.

The "Range" and "Attack" that is specified in tooltips for weapons/tools will now update dynamically based on skill.

Dismantling hide now uses the "Leatherworking" skill instead of "Tailoring".

"Leather Hide" is now just "Hide" and "Tanned Leather" is now just "Leather".

Tweaked and made consistent the color of bone items.

Multiplayer "Error code 2" now reveals the issue and potential fix for user and/or server admin.

The snow scarecrow will now leave behind non-meltable items when melted.

Added a "Developer Mode" option for Steam Deck users to toggle fullscreen mode in the event they are playing in desktop mode. (Thanks Geschrieben!)

Fishing a tile that cannot support any fish or items will now say so (instead of saying overfished).

Added a visual for "over-fished" tiles.

Doodads used in crafts can now receive the "Aptitude" magical property.

You can now see the stack of tiles when inspecting them.

Mud is now spawned around swamps and will be located under swamp tiles when dug.

Trapdoor spiders and claw worms now produce holes when revealed or spawned.

Deep holes will allow water to be routed 100% of the time.

Protection now persists through building and picking up items, for example building a sailboat, riding it, then picking it back up.

Discovering an item of a new quality now displays a celebratory message.

Items of undiscovered qualities on the ground now appear as the closest discovered quality instead of a "?"

When tiles are referenced in messages/tooltips, they will now show their quality, magical status, renamed names and more.

The "Replay" button will now reset turn modes and multiplayer options.

You can now see how many times you've tamed or petted a tamed creature.

Added tooltips for all buttons on the action bar.

Menu sections are now highlighted when scrolled to via a section button.

Players will no longer be woken up from rest/sleep if the player around them can't actually get to them.

Swapping positions with creatures no longer causes an extra delay.

Tamed creatures now move around less when near the player/not busy with another task.

Petting will now also increase the creature's maximum health (to a much lesser extent than re-taming/offering).

Reduced the chance of merchants saying they had new stock after they already equipped or consumed it.

Creatures will now keep a total of how many pets they have received which will impact (in addition to times tamed) command unlocks, taming chances, and more.

Added a new "leaves" group which goats will now accept.

"Drop All" and "Move All" action slot actions now use what is filtered in the player's inventory.

Move/drop all binds and actions no longer moves/drops equipped items.

Players with high taming skills can see the exact turn count when creatures untame.

The same item(s) can be traded back and forth several times between a merchant and a player at a cost penalty.

Organic tiles will now always provide static resources when dug to better conform with doodads/plant resources. (Thanks DanekJovax!)

Protected items that can't be used in crafting and dismantling will no longer be counted in the crafting/dismantle tooltip. (Thanks Feral Grumpicorn!)

Multiple random items sourced from the same milestone modifier or challenge modifier into the same container are no longer duplicates.

Some items are now excluded for random item milestone modifiers.

Added a "Days" or "Nights" counter to the ferocity tooltip/inspection.

The message log now supports infinite scroll, loading additional messages as necessary.

The message log no longer forcibly keeps you at the latest message if you're trying to look at earlier messages. Scrolling back down to the latest message locks the scroll there again.

The message log has been reimplemented for performance.

The "worth" magical property now has a greater range of values possible.

Magical doodads and bookcases that grant skill bonuses are now shown in the skill tooltips. (Thanks DanekJovax!)

The "Hide Equipped Headgear" option now hides your equipped headgear for other players too (only if PVP is disabled.)

You can now cage untamed creatures which uses the trapping skill and the creature's difficulty as a chance modifier.

Cages now have different action tiers based on type/quality.

Creatures now have an innate "worth" when caged to be used for trading and other purposes.

There is now a chance for looted bags/backpacks to contain some items.

"Swords" are now referred to as "short swords".

Damage notifier icons are now shown on heavily damaged items when thrown or fired on the tile instead of above the player.

Void now displays as a separate unique graphic in maps.

Health vignetting no longer shows in screenshot mode.

Being hit additional times while delayed no longer increases your delay further.

Added a message for when pouring water on a creature/player had no effect.

When an item with a colored border (ie, by quality or by it nearly being destroyed or decayed) is highlighted, the border now is now a brighter version of the normal color. (Thanks muzzy!)

There are now actions for moving the contents of containers (in both doodad & item form) between containers and to your inventory.

Resting or sleeping will no longer reset hunger/thirst timers so they immediately tick down after one turn while resting/sleeping.

Gathering no longer automatically picks up items.

Updated "A Powdery Catalog" book. (Thanks Feral Grumpicorn!)

"Gather With Hands" now has a description.

To help the user experience of working through a quest line, "Next Quest: " buttons are are now pinned to messages, ensuring that the player views the quest text as their pinned quest requirements update.

"Enable Smooth Zooming" is now disabled when "Disable Movement Animations" is enabled.

Piles of rocks now use the "mine" action instead of "chop" as their tool-based gather action.

Container dialogs are no longer closed and reopened when changing state, such as when picking up a chest, or boarding/dismounting vehicles. The sort & sort direction now also persist between the states.

The optional smooth zoom animation is now curved, starting fast and slowing down near the end, to make it feel better to use.

Doodads that will be destroyed on pick-up will now warn you. (Thanks riftborn!)

Picking up any vehicle will now only damage them by 1 instead of their damage multiplier.

You can now sort skills by "recent".

The milestones dialog now displays milestone icons & can be resized to display multiple columns.

Added particle effects to crafting/dismantle/disassemble actions with colors based on the item.

Dripstones and stills now show a purification counter in their tooltip.

Dripstones and stills now have variable turns taken for desalination based on type.

"Animal Glue" is now "Bone Glue" and will only require bones instead of bones and offal.

The "Keep Sort Active" option has been replaced with simply persisting the selected sort in containers. When manually reordering items, the sort changes to display "Custom" instead of a sort, as no sort is active anymore.

Efficacy, success, quality chances and percentages are no longer shown when not meeting the requirements (as they were not accurate).

Action slots no longer automatically switch to "best item" until you attempt to use the slot a second time. (Thanks muzzy!)

Some milestones are now hidden entirely until you complete previous milestones, to make the milestones dialog a bit less overwhelming. (IE Survivor reveals Weathered reveals Seasoned.)

Advancing island turns is now nearly instant at the cost of accuracy.

Options for the action bar are now accessible via a new button alongside the + and - buttons.

Improved the performance of displaying non-craftable items, and of dimming out irrelevant items in containers when one or more are highlighted.

Improved performance of tooltips.

Orb of Influence has been renamed to "Cracked Orb" to be used as a new magical component for unlocking the "alter" action.

The "active container" highlight is now a tab on the side of containers. You can click the tab to manually set the active container instead of using the container the game thinks is best.

The "open container" action now makes the container active if it's already open.

Grabbing or clicking on an item from a container no longer makes the container active, allowing you to use the item "quick-move" feature between containers.

Fires will now be more visible on tiles that contain items. (Thanks DerSimon!)

"Copal" has been removed and replaced with "Hide Glue" with similar uses/efficacy.

Changed some default action binds away from WASD keys, for example, Dismantle and Disassemble which caused many accidental actions.

You can now use the mouse to organize all items of a type or quality within a single container.

Doodads that block line of sight will now illuminate their surrounding tiles properly when on fire. (Thanks muzzy!)

When building or picking up containers, the container dialog now stays opened.

The skills and milestones dialogs now save their sort options when reloading the game. (Thanks 柯箴之!)

NPCs will now prefer to attack their attacker instead of the nearest player.

Killing creatures via traps, tamed creatures, or fire now provides the correct loot quality bonuses. (Thanks Art Shrival!)

The "days" shown on server details now are a cumulative total and average respectively across all islands.

Improved support for slow multiplayer connections.

NPCs can no longer spawn within line of sight to a player.

"Dig With Hands" is no longer available on piles of rocks or other doodads. (Thanks muzzy!)

Changed the "Rest" action to auto-use only when you have the "tired" status effect.

Trampling fire now produces messages for partial/failure events.

Equipment slots and action slots can now be inspected with the Inspect dialog.

Puddles now provide audio/visual cues when stepped on.

The islands dialog now displays waves as decorations between the islands.

Updated the appearance of the weight tooltip.

Equipped lit torches now provide heat.

You will now receive a warning when overwatering small plants. (Thanks Zeτα!)

Holding alt while slotting an item or action in the action bar now slots it with auto-use enabled.

Container weight is now revalidated on reload (for save compatibility). (Thanks Veeyu!)

NPCs will now attempt to move off of dangerous tiles.

The "dangerous" creature tier has been renamed to "vicious" to differentiate it from the "danger level" mechanic.

You can now sort milestones by "recent".

Puddles now decay faster if walked on, but last a bit longer by default.

The doodad version of "skill" magical properties will now have an "encircling" affix.

Action slots containing an item now highlight when the mouse is over the item in your inventory.

You can now navigate backward and forward through your Inspect dialog inspection history.

Useful item hover binds are now described in the inventory management help article.

Your carry & max weight now display in your inventory dialog with a tooltip.

Updated some old references in the help articles.

You can now click on most tooltip links to open that tooltip in the Inspect dialog, rather than needing to press shift+right click in all cases.

New items were added to the challenge mode's "get item" quests.

Balance

Smoothed out the range in which aberrant creature defense scales with player skills.

Old educational scrolls now have the potential to provide more skill.

Ranged items now have an accuracy stat that determines the likelihood of hitting the intended target.

Tactics now ramps up your attack accuracy a bit slower.

Ranged action skills (throwing, marksmanship, and fishing) are now also used to improve the accuracy of the action.

Increased gem spawn rate and island maximums.

Golems are now exponentially more formidable based on type.

You can no longer pick up vehicles with items in them - this functionality is reserved for containers only.

Creature loot, creature resource quality, and treasure chest items have been increased per island distance, meaning you have to travel less far out to maximize rewards.

Increased slime splitting chances in the case where the slime was over its normal maximum health (more slime factory potential).

Using cages now costs durability. (Thanks riftborn!)

There is now a limit on how deep you can dig per tile and deep holes will block most movement and store more items when dropped.

There is now a tile stacking limit using the "Set Down" action.

Tamed creatures will now have a higher chance of having "pity" points of damage.

Creature versus creature fights will now have increased damage (reducing the chance of seeing full-zero damage fights).

Reduced the amount of empty tiles needed to produce a cave entrance so they aren't as rare to dig.

Reduced the quality durability bonus of mastercrafted items slightly.

Vehicles can no longer be used as a container when inside your inventory.

"Pacifier" and "Friendly" milestone modifiers now prefer land to spawn creatures on more than before.

Building, picking up doodads, and placing tiles no longer reduces stamina based on the "Mining" skill.

Slither suckers will now sometimes refuse to be unequipped.

Challenge modifiers that apply permanent status effects can now appear alongside more other challenge modifiers due to their effects being weakened in challenge mode.

Arrowheads now have set durability (based on material) and can be repaired.

Offering items to already tamed creatures will now also increase their max health (previously, they needed to completely untame for this to happen).

Reduced the amount of food/water merchants will use, allowing them to keep more of their new/old stock.

Chickens now accept a larger variety of items.

Crafts that create puddle byproducts will no longer create enough puddles to create water tiles. (Thanks warriorsforever482!)

Reduced the weight of limestone and limestone powder.

Skeletons no longer attack immediately after animating.

Increased the quality of items merchants stock.

Hostile creatures will only attack tamed creatures when their owner is nearby. (Thanks warriorsforever482!)

Removed the concept of "ingots" and replaced it with a "smelted" version of ore, reducing amount of consumed materials needed to do metalworking.

Merchant and shipper spawning rules have been reworked so that the chance of additional NPCs is decreased for each additional NPC of that type already on the island. Additional flooring tiles also no longer increases the chance of them spawning besides what civilization score they provide. (Thanks Nameless!)

Tin armor no longer has vulnerability to cold damage.

Invisible and mystery milestones will now display their name/description/progress after reaching 50% completion.

Increased cold and blunt vulnerability on bronze armor.

Decreased the maximum amount of hours you can sleep for.

Increased the difficulty of crafts advanced through master slightly, making efficacy/skill more useful at higher levels.

The "Alter" action no longer consumes the item, but instead uses its durability as a "charge".

You can no longer jump while swimming.

Initial skill(s) now start at a much higher value including all milestone modifiers that affect starting skills.

Merchants no longer stock magical essence. (Thanks Veeyu!)

Reduced maximum durability bonuses for qualities and reinforcing slightly.

Tongs are now required for any blacksmithing craft or disassembly that requires fire.

Tin items no longer require a sand cast flask when disassembling them.

Dripstones will now take longer to desalinate in general.

You can no longer disassemble dripstones and they now have a reduced weight when crafted.

Increased the default rarity of non-normal quality items and magical properties slightly, but increased the bonuses provided through action tiers to get quality items.

Skeletons will now fall back into remains after killing a player.

The chance of receiving a mastercrafted item now scales based on skill as well as the previous random chance and efficacy percentage with more weight being placed on skill/efficacy rather than pure randomness with higher caps on each.

Mudskippers now accept more raw fish types and forms.

Shippers now have a bit more offensive capabilities.

Aberrant fish no longer can move under the player.

Creatures have reduced hostility towards shippers that are currently on a job.

Skeleton attack damage has been decreased.

Attacking your tamed creatures now decreases their happiness further.

Decreased the skill check for tilling as well as increased the chance at gaining skill when failing.

Reduced chances of hardened coils spawning on lava.

Increased shark's attack and health values.

Increased the minimum amount of turns to sleep/rest.

The crafter milestone modifier now quadruples item durability.

Scarecrows will now disable creature spawning in their radius (instead of just a chance).

Some milestone modifiers no longer give additional items when respawning as a new character in a multiplayer server with "Hardcore Respawns" enabled. (Thanks Kowalth!)

Reduced default range for all ranged weapons/tools.

The default travel distance for thrown items or ranged weapons is the "range" property in addition to a skill bonus instead of any value in between 1 and the range/skill.

Creatures in the coastal (starting island) caves now deal less damage.
We hit the Steam post limit! See the full changelog here: https://www.unlok.ca/wayward/development-branch-update-part-2/
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12 Aug 2024Developer post
Wayward Newsletter #13
Welcome the 13th iteration of the Wayward newsletter, featuring a long-awaited status update, showcasing mods, and other tidbits! Status Update Firstly, no, Wayward is not dead. Behind the scenes, but not super behind the scenes, we have been pushing updates to the development br
03 Dec 2023Developer post
Development Branch Update
Hot off the heels of our latest newsletter , we are opening up our development branch to test all the latest additions and a poll to help name this release. If you plan to partake in the testing of this release, after loading the game you will be greeted with a new special dialog
Hot off the heels of our latest newsletter, we are opening up our development branch to test all the latest additions and a poll to help name this release.
If you plan to partake in the testing of this release, after loading the game you will be greeted with a new special dialog explaining the current issues and/or status of the development branch including some bugs we are looking for feedback on. It will be quite buggy for the first little while!
Naming Ideas
Here are a few of the ideas we have so far for the name: https://strawpoll.com/XmZRxEvQ3nd
These are mostly deities related, but there are other new things in the update as well to draw inspiration from. Comment any new ones you can think of and/or vote for your pick!
Here Be ~~Dragons~~ Drakes
As always, we would encourage you to back up your saves before trying this development branch of the game. By default, you can find your backups and save folders in the main Wayward directory. You can also export saves and global save data in-game if needed.
More information on how to change branches here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=721479594
Report any issues you spot!
Here's the work-in-progress changelog so far:
New

You can now "stack" and "unstack" like items. Item stacks display as if they are the "best" item in the stack, with a quantity of how many total items are in the stack. You can hold "ctrl" to temporarily expand the stack your mouse is over.

Merchant trading has been redesigned.

Added wheelbarrows, allowing you to push and pull additional storage.

All container dialogs throughout the game (your inventory, held containers, container doodads, vehicles, NPCs) have been ported to the new UI system, fixing some longstanding issues and improving performance.

Added armor stands, allowing you to store armor and weapon sets visually with the ability to quick-swap certain builds.

The actions drawer now supports selecting a specific item type from a list of all discovered item types, and selecting a range of qualities.

Ice and puddles (on certain terrain) are now slippery and will cause slippery movement for players (with certain footwear) and some creatures, more so if jumped upon.

Added a "heel" or "follow, but don't attack" command for tamed creatures.

Added crucibles, a new device for smelting ores.

Added a new type of skeleton that can appear from skeletal remains based on alignment and other factors.

Added a new "shadowy" creature.

Added a new magical property "persistence" which increases max item durability far beyond normal means among other bonuses.

Added aberrant versions of all fish.

Minecarts can now push other minecarts. The faster the tier of minecart, the more minecarts can be pushed.

Added conifer resins, pitch, and glue for use in new recipes and reinforcing.

The chance to craft mastercrafted items is now revealed at 100% skill.

Added two new books.

You can now drag actions from context menus to the action bar.

Added fish bones and glue.

Added notifiers when dual-wielding is enabled/disabled.

There is a new custom creature spawn rate multiplier option that will allow you to scale the rate at which creatures spawn including disabling it altogether.

Added two new milestones and modifiers to do with creature spawn rates.

The "Move All" and "Move All of Quality" actions can now be bound to the action bar.

Added an audio cue when encumbered or overburdened.

You can now set maxed skills as your in-game title.

Added an automatically updating notice to launching the development branch of the game.

Magical Binding now has a new action and use involving attack and defense bonuses.

Added a number of new sound effect variations around inventory management.

Added "Thaumaturgic", a new milestone and modifier for finding every type of magical property.

Added the "Runekeeper" milestone and modifier.

Added a new milestone, "Curator" for discovering every item quality.

Added the "Dedicated" milestone and milestone modifier, allowing players to set one that raises faster than all others, while the rest raise very slowly.

Added OLED burn-in protection for HUD/UI elements.

Added a multiplayer option to pause server when desync occurs.

Each island now progresses or "ticks" independently.

Added a new help article about "Item Protection".

Improvements

The milestones dialog now displays milestone icons & can be resized to display multiple columns.

Added particle effects to crafting/dismantle/disassemble actions with colors based on the item.

Dripstones and stills now show a purification counter in their tooltip.

Dripstones and stills now have variable turns taken for desalination based on type.

"Animal Glue" is now "Bone Glue" and will only require bones instead of bones and offal.

The "Keep Sort Active" option has been replaced with simply persisting the selected sort in containers. When manually reordering items, the sort changes to display "Custom" instead of a sort, as no sort is active anymore.

Efficacy, success, quality chances and percentages are no longer shown when not meeting the requirements (as they were not accurate).

Action slots no longer automatically switch to "best item" until you attempt to use the slot a second time. (Thanks muzzy!)

Some milestones are now hidden entirely until you complete previous milestones, to make the milestones dialog a bit less overwhelming. (IE Survivor reveals Weathered reveals Seasoned.)

Advancing island turns is now nearly instant at the cost of accuracy.

Options for the action bar are now accessible via a new button alongside the + and - buttons.

Improved the performance of displaying non-craftable items, and of dimming out irrelevant items in containers when one or more are highlighted.

Improved performance of tooltips.

Orb of Influence has been renamed to "Cracked Orb" to be used as a new magical component for unlocking the "alter" action.

The "active container" highlight is now a tab on the side of containers. You can click the tab to manually set the active container instead of using the container the game thinks is best.

The "open container" action now makes the container active if it's already open.

Grabbing or clicking on an item from a container no longer makes the container active, allowing you to use the item "quick-move" feature between containers.

Fires will now be more visible on tiles that contain items. (Thanks DerSimon!)

"Copal" has been removed and replaced with "Hide Glue" with similar uses/efficacy.

Changed some default action binds away from WASD keys, for example, Dismantle and Disassemble which caused many accidental actions.

You can now use the mouse to organize all items of a type or quality within a single container.

Doodads that block line of sight will now illuminate their surrounding tiles properly when on fire. (Thanks muzzy!)

When building or picking up containers, the container dialog now stays opened.

The skills and milestones dialogs now save their sort options when reloading the game. (Thanks 柯箴之!)

NPCs will now prefer to attack their attacker instead of the nearest player.

Killing creatures via traps, tamed creatures, or fire now provides the correct loot quality bonuses. (Thanks Art Shrival!)

The days and alignment server details now are a cumulative total and average respectively across all islands.

Improved support for slow multiplayer connections.

NPCs can no longer spawn within line of sight to a player.

"Dig With Hands" is no longer available on piles of rocks or other doodads. (Thanks muzzy!)

Changed the "Rest" action to auto-use only when you have the "tired" status effect.

Trampling fire now produces messages for partial/failure events.

Equipment slots and action slots can now be inspected with the Inspect dialog.

Puddles now provide audio/visual cues when stepped on.

The islands dialog now displays waves as decorations between the islands.

Updated the appearance of the weight tooltip.

Equipped lit torches now provide heat.

You will now receive a warning when overwatering small plants. (Thanks Zeτα!)

Holding alt while slotting an item or action in the action bar now slots it with auto-use enabled.

Container weight is now revalidated on reload (for save compatibility). (Thanks Veeyu!)

NPCs will now attempt to move off of dangerous tiles.

The "dangerous" creature tier has been renamed to "vicious" to differentiate it from the "danger level" mechanic.

You can now sort milestones by "recent".

Puddles now decay faster if walked on, but last a bit longer by default.

The doodad version of "skill" magical properties will now have an "encircling" affix.

Action slots containing an item now highlight when the mouse is over the item in your inventory.

You can now navigate backward and forward through your Inspect dialog inspection history.

Useful item hover binds are now described in the inventory management help article.

Your carry & max weight now display in your inventory dialog with a tooltip.

Updated some old references in the help articles.

You can now click on most tooltip links to open that tooltip in the Inspect dialog, rather than needing to press shift+right click in all cases.

New items were added to the challenge mode's "get item" quests.

Balance

Removed the concept of "ingots" and replaced it with a "smelted" version of ore, reducing amount of consumed materials needed to do metalworking.

Merchant and shipper spawning rules have been reworked so that the chance of additional NPCs is decreased for each additional NPC of that type already on the island. Additional flooring tiles also no longer increases the chance of them spawning besides what civilization score they provide. (Thanks Nameless!)

Tin armor no longer has vulnerability to cold damage.

Invisible and mystery milestones will now display their name/description/progress after reaching 50% completion.

Increased cold and blunt vulnerability on bronze armor.

Decreased the maximum amount of hours you can sleep for.

Trampling fire can now increase or decrease its strength along with its ability to spread/be stomped out.

Reduced the amount of ore per resource tile slightly.

Increased the difficulty of crafts advanced through master slightly, making efficacy/skill more useful at higher levels.

You can no longer go over the reputation/alignment cap. Anything that checked for this will now just check that you are at the cap instead.

The "Alter" action no longer consumes the item, but instead uses its durability as a "charge".

You can no longer jump while swimming.

Initial skill(s) now start at a much higher value including all milestone modifiers that affect starting skills.

Merchants no longer stock magical essence. (Thanks Veeyu!)

Reduced maximum durability bonuses for qualities and reinforcing slightly.

Tongs are now required for any blacksmithing craft or disassembly that requires fire.

Tin items no longer require a sand cast flask when disassembling them.

Dripstones will now take longer to desalinate in general.

You can no longer disassemble dripstones and they now have a reduced weight when crafted.

Increased the default rarity of non-normal quality items and magical properties slightly, but increased the bonuses provided through action tiers to get quality items.

Skeletons will now fall back into remains after killing a player.

The chance of receiving a mastercrafted item now scales based on skill as well as the previous random chance and efficacy percentage with more weight being placed on skill/efficacy rather than pure randomness with higher caps on each.

Mudskippers now accept more raw fish types and forms.

Shippers now have a bit more offensive capabilities.

Aberrant fish no longer can move under the player.

Shippers no longer stop to attack creatures if they are actively shipping items.

Shippers no longer can have their boats damaged by creatures. (Thanks Nameless!)

Creatures have reduced hostility towards shippers that are currently on a job.

Skeleton attack damage has been decreased.

Attacking your tamed creatures now decreases their happiness further.

Decreased the skill check for tilling as well as increased the chance at gaining skill when failing.

Reduced chances of hardened coils spawning on lava.

Increased shark's attack and health values.

Increased the minimum amount of turns to sleep/rest.

Bug Fixes

Fixed tooltip tile quality color not updating when hovering over while it changes.

Fixed being able to import global save data as a game save and vice versa. (Thanks tr1ger1n86!)

Fixed a build item animation appearing for a frame or two when hopping between vehicles. (Thanks Veeyu!)

Fixed Move Item actions not displaying a red message and preventing use when the item(s) don't fit in a container.

Fix ride action on an adjacent minecart picking up the current minecart.

Fixed being able to run some actions on-top of players that are connecting to the multiplayer server.

Fixed being able to have games with "undefined" names on dedicated servers.

Fixed action menus not updating "can use" status when other players move in front of where you are facing.

Fixed generated tiles always being damaged when dug up. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed "unknown" items showing up as "1" on the ground, or blank in messages instead of "unknown" items.

Fixed protected black powder being consumed.

Fixed action slot usage not updating when going up/down levels or when teleporting.

Speculatively fixed the possibility of items going to -1 decay. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed item hover effects being disabled by the decay/durability bars. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed decayed items not benefiting from "Hoarding".

Fixed the defense inspect not updating changes to base defense values.

Drastically improved the performance of opening the actions drawer by slotting an item without a primary use.

Fixed aberrant spawn customizations tooltips showing incorrect titles. (Thanks 柯箴之!)

Fixed the available ingredients for crafts/dismantles showing protected items that won't be used in the count. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed assign to action slot binds not working.

Fixed the actions drawer considering many actions applicable with any item type.

Fixed cage names showing a variable in certain situations. (Thanks 柯箴之!)

Fixed tooltips not updating in the world when moving.

Fixed seawater not able to take over deep swamp/fresh water. (Thanks King Smidgens!)

Fixed gathering swamp water not reducing water levels properly.

Fixed dismantle tooltips disappearing quickly in real-time mode. (Thanks Silverspeedy!)

Fixed water contamination logic failing when intersecting three different types of water. (Thanks King Smidgens!)

Fixed low maximum durability items being repairable when protected even though repairing would destroy the item. (Thanks BeautifulNova!)

Fixed mudskippers not being correctly spawned.

Fixed tooltips occasionally flickering when moving.

Fixed dismantle output looking janky in tooltips.

Implemented a speculative fix for some mod registrations (for example, bindables) internally caching too early, causing some to be left out.

Fixed the "reputation" label not working correctly in the multiplayer server browser.

Fixed fires able to be in exist but in the "extinguished" status. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed the daily challenge name being done in local time instead of UTC like the seed. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed line of sight not being calculated when stepping outside of a cave after loading a save. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed protected seeds being plantable. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed disassembling items re-rolling magical properties. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed some fairy ring templates not working.

Fixed line of sight not being recalculated when placing walls. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed the player sprite wiggling on coordinates equal to the power of 2.

Fixed "blank" items being generated from burning. (Thanks tr1ger1n86!)

Fixed sometimes not getting a starting skill.

Fixed efficacy being inaccurate when using grouped items. (Thanks Aresff!)

Fixed map dialogs staying opened after traveling. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed the "replay" button not forwarding to the new game menu from the death & win screens. (Thanks BeautifulNova!)

Fixed many instances of actions appearing in item right-click menus that are irrelevant and impossible.

Fixed the bindings menu being blank when playing on a really old save with old saved bindings.

Fixed errors in messages no longer having tooltips.

Fixed decayed items not being able to be unequipped on NPCs. (Thanks Nameless!)

Fixed item move actions not having tooltips.

Fixed no sound effect playing when reorganizing items in your inventory.

Fixed dripstones appearing lower on the tile.

Fixed the "Apocryphal" milestone not triggering after using some magical component actions.

Fixed stat bars animating in tooltips.

Fixed creatures appearing over top of trees in certain instances.

Fixed path to tile only moving one step at a time or prematurely cancelling movement.

Fixed the reset options button not actually resetting some options like font style, audio, or language.

Speculatively fixed auto actions not executing in multiplayer games under certain conditions until server is restarted.

Fixed item-related memory leaks. (Thanks SwordForTheLord!)

Fixed fire trampling being too common over decreasing/increasing its spread.

Fixed NPCs not tracking damage from traps, fire, and other non-combat damage events.

Drastically improved the performance of having large numbers of action slots and large numbers of visible items.

Fixed raw clay mortar and pestle not being disassemblable. (Thanks muzzy!)

Fixed teleporting using stamina when encumbered.

Fixed ferocity display not being accurate. (Thanks Sensakuma!)

Fixed protected items being shown in red when they could be used in disassembly. (Thanks muzzy!)

Technical

The outlines around items in your inventory, containers, and the crafting dialog are generated automatically when the game is loading. This process has been sped up by around 50-60%.

Improved load times when joining a multiplayer game with players on many different islands.

Generated item outline sprites are now cached in a better way, potentially preventing some hangs on "Loading Items".

Refactored the internals of the Mod system.

Added checksums to save data for save corruption diagnosis.

Disabled image outline generation logic on dedicated servers.

Improved the speed of image outline sprite generation.

Reworked some ActionArgument functionality to allow for custom argument types.

Modding

Fixed modded ItemTypeGroup's not including nested ItemTypeGroup items.

Mods
Magicology

Added item group for craftable items

Debug Tools

Added a "Crash WebGL" button for testing purposes.

Fixed "Revert Death" being duplicated when canceling quitting the game.

Fixed changing maximum health not saving/updating properly.

Healing yourself will no longer disable noclip.

You can now add all items matching the dropdown filter text to a container.

Added the ability to increase/decrease stat maximum values.

The "inspect item" binding now works much more consistently.

Filtered out heat & cold insulation from the editable stats in the Inspect dialog. (Thanks TheUnnamedStranger!)

Renamed the Invulnerable option to Unkillable. (Thanks TheUnnamedStranger!)

TARS

Improved determination on what creature is a threat or not.

Troposphere

Fixed creatures not moving on older saves. (Thanks Tapenki!)

Fixed cloud water not rendering correctly.

Cloudstones no longer weigh as much.

Nimbus is no longer is crafted with snowflakes and increased the feathers/cloudstones required to craft it.
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27 Nov 2023Developer post
Wayward Newsletter #12
Welcome the 12th iteration of the Wayward newsletter, featuring future plans, dissecting current issues, showcasing mods/media, and more! Beacon’s Call Postmortem The last major update and the patches thereafter were a big step in improving player experience and smoothing out the
Welcome the 12th iteration of the Wayward newsletter, featuring future plans, dissecting current issues, showcasing mods/media, and more!
Beacon’s Call Postmortem
The last major update and the patches thereafter were a big step in improving player experience and smoothing out the starting of the game. Whether it was the addition of dripstones, adding freshwater rivers to the starting island, reputation tweaks, spawning location improvements, or additions to the Starter Quest - there was tons done to refine the early game. While there’s still lots of work to be done here, the feedback has been pretty positive there.
That’s not to say mid-late game players also didn’t get some goodies here either. Ports and shippers offer up a way to transport items across islands. Gems and golems provide a late-game milestone to search out and create. Creature cages add an easy method of transporting creatures, especially across islands. Creature commands provide incentives for making long-time friends with your tamed companions. Bookcases adds bonuses for keeping all the lore and text in the game. These are just a few of the features added in the last major update if you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet.
New Beginner’s Guide Video
Speaking of new players, I recently put out a new updated beginner’s guide video going through the Starter Quest and handing out a few additional tips and tricks while doing so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbReL-OzoFM
Upcoming Reputation Changes
You may have already seen a hint of this change with the renaming of “Reputation” to “Ferocity” which better explains its effects. This is just the beginning of it though. To explain, reputation in Wayward has always been a "difficulty slider", but one done through in-game mechanics and lore. The whole purpose of it has not been one of ecological commentary, but rather, to provide players a way to modify the game to their liking and playstyle. The issues with it are many but include:

What increases/decreases reputation is unknown to the player natively and must be discovered.

Actions can sometimes increase and decrease reputation at the same time, leading to net-neutral changes.

Some actions can be exploited to gain or lower reputation, leading to a lot of tedious gameplay like using the same action/mechanic over and over again.

It forces some actions/playstyles that a player may not want to do just because they want to keep a certain difficulty.

It's confusing to new players, but new players have to be aware of it so they can tweak their difficulty.

It's balanced in a way that over time, the game is supposed to get harder; however, depending on the player's playstyle this intent can be lost.

Deities to save the day! As paying homage to its roguelike roots, Wayward will be introducing deities, invoking, and sacrifice; a common staple of the genre. While this has been planned for years now, it was always meant to augment reputation, but now it will be replacing it. This system will solve every point above as actions no longer impact the difficulty of the game. You are free to do whatever you want. As you play, the difficulty of the game will increase naturally, but, the player has direct control over this. They can devote themselves to the deities of the island to offset this. Later on, they can even sacrifice collectable runes (dropped to the player when performing actions) to swing difficulty in either direction with a single action.
We would consider adding an in-game difficulty slider to be a failure. We would rather continue to iterate on the concept of dynamic difficulty and I really think we got it feeling really good this time around.
Upcoming Inventory/Container Overhaul
The next piece of the old UI is on the chopping block!
If you are not familiar with the backstory here; we slowly have been redoing pieces of UI to modernize it (maintenance-wise) and provide new features/improvements all of which eventually will allow us to do full controller support. This is something we have to work on over time as it is a huge undertaking and a lot of it is near-invisible to most players. After this one, the next and final one to port over is the crafting dialog.
As an added bonus this time around, we will be adding a much-requested feature that is very much visible to players. Item stacking! Simply CTRL+click an item to stack it together. Hold CTRL to preview the stack, and CTRL+click it again to unstack it.
Development Branch
The development branch where you can test all these changes should be live soon. We are planning by the end of this week to reenable it for all the eager testers out there. Stay tuned for the development branch announcement!
Feature Voting
Something that we always like to mention in these newsletters is that our feature voting page works as an impromptu roadmap for the game - but one where players get to pick what they see as most important. Check it out and cast your vote for upcoming features:
https://www.waywardgame.com/vote
Media Showcase
As has become a yearly-ish tradition, Splattercat has recently released a new video on Wayward. Funnily enough, he mentions the reputation issues mentioned above, leading to the impetus for us to focus on that system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pftFxUBjpM
If you have been keeping up on the updates during this lull in updates, you probably have already seen these teaser videos, but if not, check out a preview of armor stands and wheelbarrows, two highly requested features coming up in the next release:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQgZ-98dq_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LzoCh_1ETs
Mod Showcase
Check out some of the recent modifications the community has created!
Player-Owned Areas by HDJam
Adds the ability to claim areas, protecting them from other players. A great utility for dedicated servers to prevent griefing or setting up custom scenarios/challenges.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2992525255
Quality Tile Colours by Kitsune
Quickly becoming the most popular Wayward Workshop submission, this mod displays small colorized sparkles on tiles and doodads with quality.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2990505230
Jeeves - Unofficial Update by Dark Helix
An unofficial port/update of the once-popular mod, Jeeves by Cringe which allows management of items on the ground - showing them in a container dialog.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2964370715
Fantasy Customizations by Sensakuma
Adds a ton of custom hairstyles (some fantasy-based), exotic skin tones, and more.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2978026244
Quick Stack by FluffyWuffletonTheFierce
A tool for automatically moving and sorting items based on filtered item types and groups.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2854879083
Autumn Sale
If you are reading this before the 28th of November, you still have a chance to grab Wayward for -25% off as part of the Steam Autumn sale.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/379210/Wayward/
Leave A Review!
If you have a few moments to spare after reading this, we would love it if you shared your feedback on the game with us in the form of a Steam review. It helps us a lot!
Thanks for reading and stay tuned!
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05 Aug 2023Developer post
Beacon's Call Update #5
Okay, I've almost lost track of the times I said this would be the last patch for Beacon's Call, yet, here's another one! This one is another small patch that fixes some issues that are a bit more pressing and we would rather not wait until the next major release to get them out
Okay, I've almost lost track of the times I said this would be the last patch for Beacon's Call, yet, here's another one! This one is another small patch that fixes some issues that are a bit more pressing and we would rather not wait until the next major release to get them out there to the players. See the details below!
Bonus Promo: I recently did a new Beginner's Guide video for Wayward. Check it out here if you are having trouble starting out in Wayward:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbReL-OzoFM
Bonus Tip: For a more continuous fresh water collection, try out wells! Wells can be built in many locations, but only some provide fresh water. When trying to find a good spot, a rope is your best friend. Use the "Test Depth" action on a rope after placing a well to see its water status. Some locations will provide water over time, and some will be infinite (although this is rare). This all depends on what exists under the well within the caves. If you are getting swamp or seawater in your well, you are too close to a swamp or seawater source and will need to move the well, or move the offending water. Non-infinite wells will fill over time, so you must wait for them to gather water; so one strategy would be to build several of them for a good supply.
New

Action slots that aren't configured to use specific items are now automatically brought into new saves by default. This functionality can be disabled in the action bar options.

Added an option to configure the screen position of the Steam Input Keyboard on Steam Deck.

Improvements

Using the + and - buttons in the action bar now add and remove whole rows at a time instead of individual action slots. You can hold shift if you want to add/remove individual slots still.

Only automatically open the Steam Input Keyboard on Steam Deck when the text input is important or when the input is clicked again.

You can now change the default modifier order for action bar rows. (For example, by default the rows are None, Ctrl, Shift, Alt, and you can change it to None, Shift, Ctrl, Alt, among all other possible combinations.) This feature can still be overridden by setting custom slot bindables.

The primary resource of basalt ground is now basalt.

Balance

You can no longer learn recipes from crafted items from other players when using the Rouseabout milestone modifier.

Bug Fixes

Fixed sleeping/resting taking too long/locking up the game. (Thanks CaptainSparklebutt!)

Fixed action slots becoming very slow on islands with an excessive amount of items. (Thanks Veeyu!)

Fixed generated doodads getting incorrect weight values. (Thanks Anketam!)

Fixed multiple items that could go under 0.1 weight using featherweight and refining. (Thanks King Smidgens!)

Fixed glowing magical properties not stacking with torches properly. (Thanks Aresff!)

Fixed exuding leading to decimal values sometimes.

Fixed "void" being able to be a treasure location. Note that this fix will only apply to treasure maps for islands generated after this update. (Thanks Veeyu!)

Fixed rare multiplayer desyncs related to magic properties.

Fixed multiplayer desyncs when using the upgrade action. (Thanks Veeyu!)

Fixed {1} after crafting efficacy in messages. (Thanks Nameless!)

Fixed soem typos.

Modding

Mod compilation should now be faster due to no longer typechecking the base game definitions when compiling a mod.

Fixed "@Register.stat" requiring a tooltip. (Thanks Sensakuma!)

Mods
TARS

Fixed TARS getting stuck when overburdened.

Fixed issues regarding picking up dripstones. (Thanks GrayStillPlays!)

Fixed TARS killing a creature and then forgetting to carve it.
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Bug Fixes

Technical

Modding

Mods

New

Improvements

Balance

Bug Fixes

Technical

New

Improvements

Balance

Bug Fixes

Technical

Modding

Mods

New

Improvements

Balance

Bug Fixes

Technical

Modding

Mods

Improvements

Bug Fixes

Technical

Improvements

Bug Fixes

Technical

Mods

New

Improvements

Balance

Bug Fixes

Modding

Mods

Welcome to "Runekeeper", the biggest update to date!

Some stand-out features this time around include:

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