Developer posts and news about this game.
Weather Weather now happens across Ficterra Rain, Snow. Fog and Dust Storms will now show up Biomes dictate what type of weather appears Clouds are now part of the new weather system Removed old 'Acid Rain' weather The 'weather' dev command now toggles the weather for the world M
Patch to fix security issue in Unity runtime (CVE-2025-59489)
Icy Items We've added 9 new items that are Icy versions of classic items in the game Fence Door Bed Sign Ball Window Lion, Dragon and Watcher statues These are made in the new Frozen Focus that can be built with ice and rare essence. All of the icy things are unlocked by research
Mystical Focus! You can now change and reroll your gear After researching Basic Combat you now unlock the crafting recipe for Mystical Focus, a object that lets you change your equipment At the Mystical Focus you can: Upgrade a Rare to an Epic item Upgrade an Epic to Mythic item
New Spawn Area! We've replaced the spawn area with an updated more interesting area There is a now a tree, some stone and dirt to make the start of the game easier, especially in more hostile starting environments The new starting area also includes loot chest of each level, sepa
Crops We're adding a new Crop system to Ficterra to replace the Crop Plot. With this you can plant the new seeds in dirt and watch the crop grow We'll be releasing this in phases, so expect new crops and for the experience to change over time After all the phases, we'll remove th
New Locations! We've added 8 new locations in total to visit in Ficterra. These are spread across several of the biomes that were a little lacking in locations These locations are: Buried Tower, a gardener tower buried under the Giant Crystalscape biome. Discover the secrets buri
Wintertime! Added New Custom Map - Wintertime Isle - Chill out on this frosty isle filled with Taiga, Snow Rock Mountains and Obsidian Snow Plains biomes Added two new Mythic items to Ficterra Warmest Coat - Reduces ice damage taken by 50% Glacial Wisdom - Gain extra Battle Regen
Halloween! Added New Custom Map - Skull Island - Can you survive this skull shaped island filled with Harrowing Woods and Dreary Beaches? Added two new Mythic items to Ficterra Dread Path - Turns cubes you walk on to their Dreary counterparts Red Mask - Massive armor penetration
Research Overhaul There were a few issues we had with how Research played in Ficterra, so we wanted to change things up. Each research unlocked too many things. This made it hard to keep track of what was unlocked or feel overwhelmed with too many item to craft at once, with no d
Added 11 new in-game achievements to Ficterra Added 8 new Steam achievements to the game Paint Chooser window now closes when pressing escape Icons for some crafting recipes no longer have weird textures Spiders now move correctly on half cubes Fixed a bug causing descriptions to
Crosshair now shows the correct icon for equivalent crafting stations (like the marble furnace) Trader window now closes when you press escape Goblins should no longer be seen in t-pose Goblins should now jump high enough to get over cubes
Fixed bug where spiders could eventually cause monsters to stop spawning Marble furnaces can now be used to smelt things Increased the disconnect timeout to 10 seconds up from 2 seconds for multiplayer games Paraffin Wax can no longer be crafted at Machine Furnaces. It just ate u
Traders now follow clients in multiplayer Added on screen helper keys for Miner bots Lowered the minimum quality level required to run deferred rendering Fixed a bug where you could call traders more than once Fixed a bug where tooltips from your inventory would stick around afte
Fixed a bug where it was possible to duplicate placeable objects in multiplayer as the client
Fixed a bug when loading lists from Player Storage for mods Fixed a bug where code files for mods could be copied into another mods folder
Sound Effects Dirt, Sand and Grass now have a different gathering sound from stone Various Leaf cubes have a new gathering sound Anvils now make metal sounds while crafting Chests now make a sound when opening them Doors now make opening and closing sounds Eating Food now makes e
Music We've added new music tracks for a number of biomes to make you feel more in the game. The following biomes have had their music changed: Ocean Glacier Sea, Obsidian Arctic Plains, Snow Rock Mountains Lake Swamp Breezy Beach Dreary Beach Cheery Steps Red Rock Desert Taiga M
Fixed a bug where the Mason Station would open wrong Fixed errors that occur after using Power Strike with no weapon equipped Highlight on equipment slots now disappears after item equipped Added a recipe to craft Glass Cubes which was omitted when adding Glass Cubes to the game
Pirate Treasure Added Pirate Chests to Ficterra! Pirate Chests can be found at locations in the Ocean and Tropical Beach biomes Pirate Chests have their own drop table and always drop a Treasure Map Piece Combine 4 pieces of a Treasure Map pieces to make a full Treasure Map Follo