New Content & Changes
Updated game engine to Unity 6.
User Interface has been updated for the following menus and items:
Cooking.
Inventory & Storage.
Crafting.
HUD.
Home Island.
Quest Log.
Machinery.
Upgrade station.
Tech Tree.
Table-Map.
Celebrations.
Sailing.
Debug console.
Bug Report tool.
World Generation has been updated:
Open world (no sectors).
Revamped world progression.
More handcrafted islands and structures.
New placement of biomes and islands.
More varied clusters and environments.
Some non-Life Sapling or non-Life Tree islands spawn with an unhealthy ecosystem by default again and can be healed by players.
Added miscellaneous islands between clusters.
Hot areas that require special clothing to prevent heat stroke.
High altitude areas require upgraded floaters and gliders to navigate.
Updated existing islands and fresco islands.
More varied and interesting Lost Beacon destinations.
Unique clusters with snow and Darkwood trees added.
New Islands:
10 new Fresco Islands.
6 new combat-focused Wonder Islands.
New Unique Islands.
New World Events:
Tornadoes.
Fog Banks.
Asteroid Fields.
Loot Debris.
Minable Debris Fields.
Progression changes:
Some resources require upgraded tools to gather.
Arcadium Essence can be obtained through flowers, Frescoes, and Life Sapling islands, and can be fed to the Wind Spirit to attain Insight.
Life Saplings no longer require removing corruption from all nearby islands.
Life Fruits can be found hidden in various locations.
Life Trees now require Life Fruits in order to heal and gain access to their basin.
Healing a Life Tree now requires the destruction of massive chains anchoring it to the ground.
New tech tree structure with different insight thresholds.
It is no longer required to own all previous technologies to learn further ones in the tech tree.
Excess Knowledge Points can be infinitely spent to learn miscellaneous decor elements once all tech tree items have been unlocked.
New machines:
Wool & Linen floaters allow islands to sail to higher altitudes.
Wind Vane to change the wind direction at any time with the help of the Wind Spirit.
Buildable Meditation Circles for fast travel.
Dew Catcher that collects clean water over time.
4 New stockpiles: Well, Pantry, Cabinet, Organic storage.
Misc changes:
Wind direction now shifts over time.
Coffee Plants now drop seeds when farmed.
Rebalanced research steps in the Research Table.
Moonbloom Oil and Intricate Cogs for crafting advanced technologies.
Shallow water does not apply the Wet condition anymore.
Hay is now made from wheat.
Pheasants now eat bird feed.
All Fresco Islands now feature a large structure visible from afar.
Cooking:
Meals now require to be preserved to be stored in the inventory.
Different recipes require different preservation materials.
Dirty water can now be boiled on a cooking plate for clean water.
Navigation Overhaul:
New Tablemap UI.
Fog of War.
Island Silhouettes.
Improved Spyglass.
New Stormchaser destinations.
Wind Warp:
Players can now fast travel from any Meditation Circle in any Life Tree, Life Sapling or those built by the player.
Quest Tracking:
Quests can be tracked and untracked in the Quest Log menu to toggle their appearance on the HUD.
Completed quests are listed separately in the Quest Log.
Quest destinations appear on the Table-Map.
New and updated quests.
Wind Spirit:
New Companion that follows you on your adventure.
Interact with the Wind Spirit to pet it, exchange Arcadium Essence for Insight, change the wind direction, and restore Life Sapling & Life Tree islands.
Can be dismissed or called back.
Ancestral Memories:
Interact with the Life Tree’s orb to enter the Ancestral Memory dreamscape.
Learn new skills from your ancestors’ past:
A second hotbar that can be quickly switched to at any time.
Glider compass that highlights the islands of the cluster and whether they have been explored or not.
A third personal crafting slot to craft more things on the go.
The ability to track the position of critters.
Being able to destroy floating debris with your glider for loot and minerals.
And more!
Expansion Pouches and Trinket Rings:
Expansion Pouches can be crafted using Sewing Kits and Cloth. Can be used to increase the amount of inventory slots in any category.
Trinket Rings can be found in certain chests. Can be used to add more trinket slots to any tool.
Combat Moves:
Corruption Hearts can now be found on heavily-corrupted islands.
Claiming a Corruption Heart grants combat moves and abilities.
Survival Conditions:
Negative effects after not eating, drinking or sleeping for a while, which can be removed by eating, drinking or sleeping.
The survival requirements can be adjusted or disabled in the options menu.
Running out of health:
Anomalies are tarnished.
Defeat from combat causes the Wounded condition, greatly hindering the player.
Can be removed by applying a bandage.
These health consequences can be turned off in the options menu.
Tarnished Anomalies:
Anomalies must be gathered before cleansing an island, otherwise they become tarnished.
Tarnished Anomalies can be restored by combining them with reishi mushrooms.
Tarnished Anomalies can be found in certain chests.
Treasure Chests:
New chests can be found that require keys to open.
All locked chests’ contents can now be claimed by each player in multiplayer.
New Glider Behaviour:
Gliders now require to be deployed for a short moment before being used (off a ledge/height).
The new glider behaviour can be disabled and reverted to its legacy version in the options menu.
New farmable plants:
The following plants can now be farmed:
Glasswort.
Coffee.
Brightsun Flower.
Azure Sky Blossoms.
Yellow Moonbloom.
Purple Moonbloom.
Aloe Vera.
Wisteria.
Arcadium Flower.
Life Fruit.
New variations of Moonblooms can be made by adding pigment to their seeds, allowing to grow a variety of colours that can be made into decorations.
New tree species:
Darkwood tree seeds can be found and planted.
New plant:
Desert’s Grace can be found, farmed, and used for green dye.
Performance and Stability improvements:
The game’s RAM usage no longer increases with extended play time, allowing for more stable long-term play.
Improved the way assets and materials load.
Optimized many materials and textures.
Graphics:
More light sources can now cast shadows. Can be disabled in the options menu.
Added Screen-space Global Illumination. Can be disabled in the options menu.
Added new texture streaming options in the options menu.
Music and Sound:
Main menu music has been added.
A new track can play while sailing.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed several cases where Crashed Gliders appeared inside island geometry.
Fixed several cases where hindrances in Life Saplings could not be reached.
Fixed several objectives for quests to ensure they give the intended instructions.
Fixed several cases of floating plants and assets on islands.
Fixed several cases of unintended holes in geometry for islands.
The Helm now stops producing sound if it is destroyed while unstable due to sail damage.
Corruption ambient sounds can no longer be heard in healthy islands.
Table-Map progress is retained when rejoining a multiplayer session.
Flogade Distiller and Brewing Labs now have distinct icons in the build menu.
Fixed several flow issues in the main menu when using a controller.
Jetstream explosives now play their intended ambience and SFX.
Cooking recipes are now available while in creative mode.
Player location is now correctly retained when reloading save files.
Fixed several localization typos.
Petting animals now plays the intended VFX.
Fixed an issue where some islands would spawn too close to each other.
The Field Guide now displays the intended information while on unhealthy Life Trees and Corrupted Islands.
Fixed several instances of assets lacking collision.
It is no longer possible to pause the game while in the inventory screen.
Known Issues:
Save files from 0.3.5 and earlier will be compatible but will be prone to some issues:
Characters created in 0.3.5 will function and be fully playable in 0.3.6 and onwards. However you might see the following issues:
The items you have unlocked in all tech trees have moved their location and order, but will remain unlocked and usable.
Some quests that were previously completed will appear again and might not fully function as expected. They can be untracked in the quest menu.
Some frescos that were previously used will appear as not completed in the table map. Their tech will still be unlocked for you. Using these frescos will award you with Arcadium Essence.
The wind spirit will be unlocked by default if your character has already left the starting area in any capacity. You can summon it using the interaction menu (Holding [E] on the keyboard or [X] in the controller)
Worlds created in 0.3.5 and earlier will function and will be playable in 0.3.6 and onwards but will not be supported or updated any further due to the significant change to the world. If you play in such a world, you might encounter the following issues:
The fog of war will not match your progress in the previous version. But Islands you have already discovered will still be marked correctly in the table map.
New Fresco, Life Sapling and Life Tree islands may appear in clusters you have already visited.
There may not be sufficient sources of Arcadium Essence in the world to allow you to increase your insight. To complete the Tech Tree we recommend starting a new world with your existing character.
You might encounter deprecated content and see visual issues in islands you have already visited.
Performance & Stability
Several instances of high performance issues may still be seen:
Stuttering can occur when loading and unloading island clusters.
Stuttering can occur when exploring very large islands.
Frame rate loss can occur when on corrupted islands.
Playing in a dedicated server can still have lower frame rate than playing in Peer to Peer multiplayer or single player.
Aloft is not fully supported on Steam Deck and playing on it might result in severe performance and stability issues.
Aloft does not support any mods and having any installed can cause issues launching the game and major stability issues.
Gameplay
The “winds of change” quest can advance when healing an unhealthy island in the same cluster as an unhealthy life sapling island.
Rarely, Emberstone contraptions might become desynced in multiplayer.
Changing the survival setting in the main menu will not be reflected in-game. The setting must be changed while in active gameplay for it to take place.
Rarely, attacks from cowards will not hit the player.
The table map does not update the status of islands other players land on until it is reopened.
Rarely, some quests might become crossed out before completing their intended objectives.
Sometimes attempting to host a multiplayer session from the main menu, then canceling, can cause the next attempt to host result in an infinite loading screen. Using the back key/button and returning to main menu or restarting the game can fix this.
World / Islands
Some islands will have distant silhouettes that don’t match their actual appearance.
Very rarely, using the Unstuck option or respawning in certain islands will trap the player. In this case, teleport to a home island or use the cheat `noclip on 1` to move to a safe location and then use `noclip off`
Life Tree islands might not have the right appearance for all players in multiplayer when healing it.
Rarely, skipping the Life Wind minigame on a Life Tree might not remove the chains on it.
Asteroid fields appear as regular islands on the table map.
Some island’s sub-biomes are not correctly marked in the spy glass and will instead say “???”.
Some large asteroids have no collision.
Home islands / Custom islands
Steam Workshop islands will not appear in the custom island list until the player reboots the game.
Spawning a home island in a dedicated server will not show the intended VFX.
Graphics
Some assets might flicker slightly when looked at up-close.
Some unintended reflections of beacons and other lights might appear when SSGI is enabled.
Some large parts of islands will not load when far away.
Some UI will not appear as intended if playing in non-standard aspect ratios.
Sound
Game music may stop abruptly sometimes.
Sometimes music for certain cutscenes will trigger later than expected.
Sometimes sounds from the game can appear in the main menu when closing a game session.
Other
Not all items have the correct name and localization in the Island Creator.
Some text in non-English languages might appear in English.
Deletion of character and world save files is not supported by Steam Cloud, so those files must be deleted from all devices manually to be synced.