v2.0 is a brand new version that supports multiplayer mode, new map, realistic island landscape and plants, new build system, crafting system, planting system, new UI design, which is equivalent to redevelop a brand new game, and V1.0 is still available for you to choose, and the old archives will not be affected. You can choose to switch between different versions to play. Due to a lot of work. This is the biggest update since the game was released and took a lot of work and testing, This is why it took so long for the update to be released
About V2:
New maps: brand new and more realistic vegetation and new landscapes, dense and dangerous tropical jungles, realistic coconut trees and nearly 60 kinds of various tropical plants, natural wind, 4K textures and high quality materials. A lot of optimizations, if you have a high-performance graphics card, you can easily get a high frame rate of 120fps at a resolution of 1080p, even in a jungle with dense vegetation, you can get a high frame rate of nearly 100FPS, please turn on vertical sync to reduce GPU consumption
New Build system:
More abundant and free building modules can be built, and buildings with more complex structures can be built. New triangular walls and foundations, you can upgrade wooden walls, stone walls and iron walls, and can make decorations hanging on the walls such as lamps. The door lock function can be set with a password in multiplayer mode to prevent others from intruding. You can make C4 or bomb to blow up the building, and you will see the real physical fragmentation effect. Decorations such as carpets and wall paintings will be updated in the future.
NPC trading system:
You can find a survivor NPC on the initial island, you can sell wood, ore and other resources to him to get gold coins, and then buy some useful items from him. Accumulating coins is a lot of fun.
New weapons:
several new firearms and throwable explosives, etc.
Dynamic weather:
3D cloud sky, day and night cycle system, rainy and sunny and cloudy weather, ground and plant puddles wet effect, rain water creates puddles on the ground, and will dry up slowly after the weather is sunny, characters walk in puddles to produce ripples and splashes .
Multi-archive management:
You can customize the archive name and select the archive to load and overwrite, delete the archive
Multiplayer mode:
When you enter the game in multiplayer mode, other steam players can see your server and join the game. Your nickname is the server name. Note that due to engine coding problems, some languages like chinese nickname is displayed as garbled characters, while the English name or numbers can be can display normal. Note: In the current multiplayer mode, the character customization multiplayer replicate function is not perfect and only shows your own customized appearance. Due to the complexity of the character customization system and the need to upload steam to test the multiplayer mode, these functions will be improved and updated in the future. In addition, the custom server name, password protection and other functions of the multiplayer mode will be improved in the future, please wait patiently for the update.
Is v1 still playable?
All the content of V1 is kept in V2, which will not affect your old archives. If you are more used to v1, you can still play the content of v1 as before. And v2 will be a major version for future updates.
Why release v2?
Since v1 is specially designed for single-player mode, the system design has certain limitations and flaws, which lead to slow progress in the update work, such as flaws in the data structure, resulting in having to add data multiple times for each tool, in order not to damage the overall project and archive, so features cannot be modified on a large scale.
For further development of the future, a new version of V2 is launched. V2 is equivalent to the redevelopment of most of the core content, compatible with single-player and multi-player modes.
More new content will be updated continuously, there will be new maps with more types of landforms, more types of animals, etc., Merry Christmas! Best regards
Some updates for the old version of v1.2:
Added the wetting effect of puddles on the ground, as well as the wetting effect of the built walls and plants. The rain produces puddles on the ground, which will dry up slowly after the weather is fine. The character walks in the puddles to produce ripples and splashes, and the rainy day effect is even better. reality.
New plantable plants: medicinal herbs, which can be used to restore health after harvesting.
The new breaking system, after destroy the wall, you will see the real simulated physical breaking effect. only the new built walls show the breaking effect.
Added a small backpack made of cloth, which can add 22 inventory spaces. In peace mode, you can also make a backpack with only cloth.
In peaceful mode, giant eagles can be tamed directly without deducting raw meat.
Add wooden doors that can be opened and closed for stone houses
Fixed the bug that the planting interface appeared when pressing E to ride a horse or a giant eagle
Fixed the problem of cutting watermelon to simulate physical falling on the ground
Ocean optimization improves frame rate, seawater texture improvements, and better reflections.
Wind effects for tree random transformations have been improved to be more vivid.
Fixed the bug that swimming out of the water still consumes oxygen, the character's buoyancy has been improved, and it is more stable underwater
New lighting renderer, fixed the bug that building a large number of torch lighting caused the character model to turn white, but it is still not recommended to build too many torches, a large number of fire particles or cause fps to drop, if your fire has no lighting, please remember to set it in the graphics settings the effects quality is High.
LOD optimization of furniture and other models