Quality of LIfe - Patch Notes!

🌊 Ahoy Voyagers! 🌊

We are now just over a month away from our initial launch, and we’re here with our first major update!

This update is focused on trying to address as much of the feedback from our launch as we possibly can. Thank you so much for all of your reviews, forum posts, Discord messages, Reddit posts, survey responses, and more! Your feedback has been instrumental in shaping our plans for the rest of the year, and we are excited to continue building the game with you.

As a reminder, we have another patch coming in December that will be more focused on content and expanding the game while still focusing on the areas you’ve told us you want to see most - so look forward to more updates that give you even more things to do!

🎮 Improved Controller Support

We have greatly improved our native Controller Support, including updated controller mappings, controller glyphs displaying in game, and improved game feel for controller mechanics. We are still fixing some bugs with controller support, but we hope this will be a big improvement for players! Currently this only supports XBox-style controllers.

• Gameplay actions are now supported by controller

• Game Inputs now display controller glyphs when playing on controller for game actions

• Controller will work natively without the use of Steam Input

• Virtual Cursor is now available when navigating menus

• ⚠️ We recommend Disabling Steam Input now, as it is currently incompatible with the Native Controller support ⚠️

⛵Sailing Improvements

• New Boat: Solo Scouter

  • Features a single station control for speed and steering, 8 storage slots, and faster speed / maneuverability in a small package!

• Sailing Controls HUD

  • Sailing controls are now displayed on screen for better onboarding

  • Controls can be hidden by using the ‘F’ key

🎒Inventory Improvements

• Craft from Storage moved earlier into Progression

  • Based off of your feedback, we have moved Crafting from Storage significantly further up in the knowledge tree. Now the first real chest that is unlocked has Craft from Storage capabilities!

  • Because craft from storage now also works on Basic Storage Chests, Imbued Storage Chests got an upgrade to 48 slots!

• Named Storages

  • Now you are able to name your storages!

• Store Like Items from outside of the chest

  • Use the hotkey F while focused on the chest to Store Like Items without opening the inventory

  • The hotkey also works within the inventory too!

• Sort Inventory

  • A place for everything, and everything in its place. You are now able to sort your inventory!

🛖Building Improvements

• Resources now no longer respawn underneath buildings or props

• Square frames can now snap to other square frames

• New flat roof options so help linked rooms look better together

• Changed camera-culling for grass so when looking up to build the grass does not occlude the camera

🏄Skimmer Improvements

Y’all love the skimmer and we do too! Hopefully these changes will help you skim your hearts out 🙂

• Food, Bandages and Potions can now be used while on the Skimmer

• Skimmer now has both higher base speed and acceleration

• Skimmer sprint stamina is now equal to land sprint

• Ocean Form now has no sprint costs

⚖️Encumbrance / Item Weight Improvements

Item Weight Reductions

• Sharpstone weight reduced from 12 → 8 per item

• Tidemetal and Amberite Ore weight reduced from 12 → 10 per item

• Tidemetal Ingot weight reduced from 18 → 15

• Ancient Fragments weight reduced from 20 → 10

• Stalker Head weight reduced from 100 → 50

• Snapper Head weight reduced from 50 → 25

• There is now a server toggle to Disable Encumbrance

🧩Ruins Improvements

We received a lot of feedback about the variety within the Ruins. We’ve always wanted to add more types of encounters, and have more challenging and interesting variety within the fights as well. We hope to keep expanding this in the future, but hopefully at least this puzzle encounter will add some much needed variety!

• New Encounter Type: Puzzle

  • We now have a new Encounter type, Puzzle, to offer a new type of challenge in place of only combat

• Each Biome now has 1 combat challenge, 1 traversal challenge and 1 puzzle challenge

• Construct now attacks and moves faster, and has more variation on when it will do its ranged or melee attacks

⚔️Combat Improvements

We wanted to add a bit more variation and inputs into the combat system, especially for non-shield players who currently have no access to stuns. Additionally, we wanted to address feedback about animation lock-outs and hit impacts, and make the playspace more even between Bows, Spears and Swords so that they can all feel like viable weapon choices.

• Stagger Mechanic

  • Enemies now have a stagger bar and stagger defense

  • Attacking or parrying with any weapon applies stagger

  • When the enemies stagger bar is filled, they are stunned

  • Stunned enemies take increase damage

• Combat Responsiveness Improvements

  • Enhanced VFX / SFX when hitting enemies

  • Reduced over-zealous knockback on enemies when being hit by Spear in multiplayer games

  • Reduced animation lockout times between attacks, and transitioning from attacking to movement

  • Maintain more forward momentum when transitioning from moving to attacking

• More combat options

  • The sword can now be used underwater

🗒️Dedicated Server Improvements

⚠️ There are some changes in this patch that require port 7778 to be port-forwarded (OR “gameport+1”, if you have changed the default port of the game) in the modem settings. If you are self-hosting a Dedicated Server, please ensure you have this port forwarded. If you are renting a server, this should not be a concern. ⚠️

• Server browser now shows more servers at once. No need to continually refresh to find your server!

• Direct Connect improvements:

  • Better error messaging when failing to join a server.

  • Uses actual IP resolution— now you can get around NAT hairpinning and other network issues.

• Invite Codes now work more consistently for Dedicated Servers.

🤝Accessibility Improvements and New Settings

We have added new accessibility options based off of community feedback! We want to continue adding more over time, so hopefully these are the first of many

• Toggle Screen Shake

• Toggle Sprint

• FOV settings (available under Advanced Display settings)

• Toggle Camera Easing

• Toggle Mouse Smoothing

• Invert Boat Steering / Sail Controls

• Camera / ADS Sensitivity

• Joueurs français, réjouissez-vous! Hotbar is now remappable, and the boat now follows the movement mapping, so it will be remapped as well!

💃 Express Yourself - New Emotes!

We have a new set of emotes available! Hopefully this will give some fun options to express yourself and interact with others.

That's all! We hope you all enjoy these updates and continue to support us through to our next big update to our Spirit Companions in December.

Have fun!

- Treehouse Team

❤️‍🩹Quality of Life / Balance

🐛Bug Fixes