Dear conductors,
A huge silhouette has appeared beneath the quiet waters off the island. Repair the broken bridge and drive your train onto the railway bridge leading out to sea. A new Giant Octopus challenge awaits!
Alongside this new deep-sea foe comes a companion for your aquarium: the rare King Fish, the Manta Ray. Two new helpers also join life aboard the train: the Automatic Seeder and Automatic Feeder, making replanting, animal care, and food storage easier.
Explorers can advance their technology to unlock the Tech Backpack with 28 extra storage slots. You can also set your own resource-gathering pace with the new Gathering Multiplier in world settings.
The crafting, inventory, map, and abilities screens have received visual updates, along with new looks for several onboard devices. We have also added Motion Sickness Reduction Mode and improved shop trading, building placement, irrigation and water storage, character animations, and saving and loading.
Here are the full update notes.
🐙 A new battle at sea: the Giant Octopus emerges!
A giant octopus has appeared off the island! This time, your train heads into a sea battlefield to face a threat from beneath the waves.
Gather materials, repair the broken bridge, and follow the railway bridge out to sea to take on this challenge. Bring weapons, supplies, and materials to repair damage to your train.
🌊 The giant awakens
When your train enters the battlefield, the monster slowly rises from the distant sea before attacking.
Watch the water and prepare to dodge and strike back.
🖤 Inkball attack
The monster charges up before spitting inkballs. Watch for the warning signs and dodge in time!
Inkballs damage players and temporarily stain train structures black when they hit.
🦑 Tentacle slam
Huge tentacles rise from beneath the water and slam down onto the train.
Tentacles can damage some structures, though their structural damage is low. Direct hits on players deal armor-piercing damage, so do not rely on armor alone.
⚔️ Seize your chance to counterattack
After landing, a tentacle stays down for 5.5 seconds, giving you an opening to focus your attacks.
Hitting the tentacle during this window deals 50% extra damage!
In the second phase, the monster slams faster. Watch its changing rhythm and strike back after dodging.
🎁 Victory rewards
Defeating the monster rewards you with:
Gold Ingots: 10–40
Iron Ingots: 10–40
Copper Ingots: 10–40
Players who have not unlocked **Black Market Zero** also receive its drink recipe.
🌉 Broken bridge repairs
Repairing either end of the broken bridge reopens both ends at once. There is no need to repair them separately.
Repair progress is saved, so you can gather materials and restore the route gradually.
Stock up, prepare your train, and head out to the deep sea!
🐟 A new King Fish: the Manta Ray!
The sea holds more than dangerous giants. There is also a new companion to bring aboard.
You now have a chance to catch the rare King Fish, the Manta Ray!
The Manta Ray has its own appearance and animations, with distinct poses when hooked, held, and swimming in an aquarium.
**Keep it in an aquarium:** Watch it spread its fins and glide peacefully, adding a new resident to your onboard aquarium.
**Grill it for food:** You can also grill and eat it to restore a large amount of fullness.
**Breeding King Fish:** Only matching King Fish can produce King Fish offspring.
Grab your fishing rod and see if you can catch this new ocean companion!
🌱 New automation device: Automatic Seeder
After harvesting, let a machine handle the replanting!
Put seeds into the Automatic Seeder and it will automatically plant them in unseeded planters in the same carriage, saving you from replanting each one.
It also works for mushrooms: put mushrooms inside to plant them automatically in Mushroom Planters in the same carriage.
Keep it supplied with the seeds or mushrooms you want to grow for easier onboard farming.
🐔 New automation device: Automatic Feeder
Animal pens, chicken coops, and aquariums now have a new helper for daily feeding!
Put suitable animal food into the Automatic Feeder to automatically feed animals short of food in the same carriage.
🍎 With sufficient power, food stays fresh
With enough electricity, food stored in the Automatic Feeder stays fresh indefinitely, making it easier to stock up for your animals.
🥣 Smaller portions first
The Automatic Feeder prioritizes smaller portions to reduce wasted food.
Large portions no longer require animals to be completely hungry: animals can now accept them when half full.
Stock up in advance to keep your animals cared for throughout the journey.
🎒 New equipment: Tech Backpack
On a long expedition, there is always more you want to bring home.
The new **Tech Backpack**, assembled from gears and mechanical parts, provides 28 extra storage slots for materials, supplies, and discoveries along the way.
🔬 How to unlock it
After researching **Nuclear Energy** in the highest technology tier, research the new Technology for Good to unlock the Tech Backpack recipe.
Keep advancing your technology and prepare for your next long journey!
⛏️ New world setting: Gathering Multiplier
World settings now include a Gathering Multiplier, letting you gather resources at your own pace.
Available multipliers:
1×: Default
2×
5×
This setting only increases basic resource yields; other drops remain unchanged.
The Automatic Drill and Automatic Grappling Hook also use the selected multiplier, keeping automated and manual gathering consistent.
🌿 New display option: Motion Sickness Reduction Mode
Go to Settings → Display to enable Motion Sickness Reduction Mode.
This disables or reduces camera stretching and shaking in most relevant situations, mainly:
Camera stretching while running.
Camera shake when taking damage.
Camera shake during rocket launches.
Camera shake when the train hits obstacles.
If you are sensitive to camera motion, enable this option for a more comfortable view.
🍲 New shop surprise item: Advanced Recipe — Buddha Jumps Over the Wall
Because **Advanced Recipe — Buddha Jumps Over the Wall** has been relatively rare in the new version, we have added it to the shop's surprise section as another way to obtain it.
The recipe can now appear in the shop's surprise section.
It costs 20 Oxygen Coins.
Once learned, the recipe stops appearing.
Check the surprise section when visiting a shop. You might find the recipe missing from your cooking collection!
🖥️ Visual updates for four frequently used screens
The crafting, inventory, map, and abilities screens have been refreshed for a more comfortable and consistent look.
🔨 Crafting screen
Updated visuals make browsing items and crafting more pleasant.
🎒 Inventory screen
The inventory has a refreshed look for a more consistent experience when viewing and organizing your belongings.
🗺️ Map screen
Updated visuals provide a more cohesive interface for checking the map and planning your travels.
💪 Abilities screen
The abilities screen now matches the style of other frequently used interfaces more closely.
📣 Loudspeaker visual update
The Loudspeaker has a new look that better matches the game's art style and fits more naturally aboard your train.
Its item image has also been updated to match.
💦 Electric Sprinkler visual update
The Electric Sprinkler's wooden frame, metal water trough, and symmetrical rotors have been redesigned for a more cohesive look.
Following this visual update:
Its footprint is largely unchanged.
Its watering method is unchanged.
Its water storage method is unchanged.
You can continue placing and using the sprinkler as before.
🚰 Medium Water Tank visual update
The Medium Water Tank has a new look that fits better with other onboard equipment.
The tank now has a clear water-level display, so you can see how much water remains by looking at it.
Its item image has also been updated.
🚂 Steam Whistle appearance and pull animation update
The Steam Whistle's appearance and connection details have been improved, with linked movements when you pull it.
When pulling the whistle, you can see:
The handle move.
The gauge needle change position.
The top components move together.
Its item image has been updated; its footprint and collision boundaries are unchanged.
🌧️ Medium Rain Collector visual update
The Medium Rain Collector now features complete blades on both sides. The water-level display inside its collection bowl is also clearer.
Its item image has been updated. Its water-collection function and footprint are unchanged.
🛒 Enter shop purchase and sale quantities directly
Bulk trading no longer requires repeated clicks on the plus and minus buttons.
You can now click the purchase or sale quantity and enter a number directly, making large transactions easier.
The existing controls remain available:
The plus and minus buttons still work normally.
Buy All still works normally.
Sell All still works normally.
Choose whichever trading method feels most comfortable.
🪙 Bandit Shop quantity and discount fixes
Fixed bulk purchase quantities in the Bandit Shop not being limited by your Oxygen Coin balance.
If you enter more than you can afford, the quantity now adjusts to the maximum you can currently buy, with the corresponding discount calculated correctly.
Bulk purchase quantities and costs are now displayed more accurately.
🧭 Improved rotation when snapping objects into place
Improved rotation during snap placement makes switching between fine adjustments and quick alignment easier.
After fine-tuning an object's angle, a short press of rotate first aligns it to a standard direction.
Another short press rotates it by 90°.
Holding rotate still lets you adjust the angle freely.
Quickly restore a standard orientation for neat layouts, or keep fine-tuning for precise placement.
🏠 Better sloped-roof connections and rain protection
Improved connections between sloped roofs and walls, reducing gaps when combining stone walls with wooden roofs.
Also fixed rain leaking through some roof seams and corners, making protection under complete roofs more reliable.
🪜 Ladders remain usable after removing the wall behind them
Fixed ladders becoming unclimbable after the wall behind them was removed.
Full and half ladders now still allow you to:
Climb up and down normally.
Move continuously between adjacent ladders.
Keep climbing without interruption.
Removing the wall behind you while climbing no longer forces you off the ladder.
🌱 Electric Sprinkler irrigation range adjusted
The Electric Sprinkler now only waters planters in the same carriage, making it easier to organize farming and water supply by carriage.
Also fixed water intake issues with Mushroom Planters. Both tiers now receive automatic irrigation normally.
🌿 No more fertilizer consumption when fully fertilized
Fixed being able to keep applying fertilizer when the fertilizer value was already full.
When the fertilizer effect reaches its limit, applying more now displays:
“Fertilizer effect is full”
No fertilizer is consumed, avoiding waste when the limit has already been reached.
💧 Device water storage fixes
Fixed stored water in devices sometimes decreasing unexpectedly when:
Viewing placement previews.
Canceling placement.
Reloading devices.
Also corrected water usage during acid rain: acid rain only pauses water collection; water already stored remains usable.
⚡ Electric Furnace speed now responds correctly to power supply
Fixed the Electric Furnace sometimes running at full speed despite insufficient power.
Now:
Processing slows down when power is insufficient.
Normal speed resumes when power is restored.
Existing processing progress is retained.
Plan furnace operation alongside other devices according to your power supply.
🐺 Improved animal movement and obstacle avoidance
Improved how wolves, boars, and bears move near water and navigate around obstacles.
This mainly reduces:
Getting stuck at the water's edge.
Circling in place after encountering an obstacle.
Repeatedly trying and failing to move past the shoreline.
Animals now move more naturally through complex terrain.
🏊 Smoother movement from water onto shore
Improved the transition from water onto low banks.
When exploring rivers, lakes, and other waters, returning to nearby low shores is now smoother.
🪢 Improved arm display on ziplines with empty hands
Improved arm poses when riding ziplines empty-handed, preventing arms from extending in front of the camera and blocking your view.
You can now see the route ahead and your surroundings more clearly.
🪓 Tools no longer swing unexpectedly after moving objects
Fixed axes, shovels, pickaxes, and other held tools sometimes swinging unexpectedly after moving an object.
This prevents unwanted tool actions after moving objects, and the resulting extra durability loss.
💃 Dancing with bows and guns fixed
Fixed bows floating in place while dancing and guns suddenly disappearing during dances.
Bows and guns now behave like other tools, staying in your hand and moving with the dance.
Held equipment looks more natural when relaxing and celebrating aboard the train with friends.
👋 Wave normally while holding a bow or gun
You can now wave while holding a bow or gun, returning to the normal holding pose afterward.
Also fixed delayed wave animations: after switching items, an earlier wave no longer plays unexpectedly.
🏹 Arrow retrieval from floors fixed
Fixed arrows shot into floors sometimes being impossible to retrieve.
After combat, recoverable arrows on floors can now be picked up more reliably.
🎮 Controller hotbar direction corrected
Fixed the D-pad selecting hotbar slots in the opposite direction to the button pressed.
Now:
Press left to select left.
Press right to select right.
The corresponding control prompts have also been corrected for more intuitive item switching.
📷 Camera underwater effect persistence fixed
Fixed the daytime view retaining a blue underwater effect after surfacing while using the Camera.
The view now returns to normal above water, so the underwater effect no longer interferes with viewing or photography.
💾 Saving, loading, and returning to the main menu improved
We have continued improving stability when saving and reloading games.
🚂 Automatic Propulsion recovery fixed
Fixed Automatic Propulsion stopping in some cases even though the player was still on the train.
📍 Improved restoration of train and player positions
Improved train and player positioning when loading, preventing the character from appearing too early during slow loads.
🏠 Better saving and exit stability
Improved stability when saving and returning to the main menu, making it smoother to end your journey, save progress, and continue next time.
🥚 Automatic Egg Collector description corrected
Updated the Automatic Egg Collector's description to consistently use **Chicken Coop**, matching the in-game name.
The corresponding descriptions have also been corrected in all languages.
🏝️ Island iron chest positions fixed
Fixed some iron chests floating in the island area, giving them more natural placement and reducing visual oddities while exploring.
💬 Thank you for your support and feedback
Thank you to every conductor who has boarded OxyRail! 🚂
From the deep-sea monster battle to a new aquarium companion, from automatic planting and feeding to a bigger backpack and easier everyday controls, we hope this update gives you more ways to enjoy life aboard your train.
Your creations, exploration stories, and reports of problems continue to help us improve the game.
If you encounter an issue, please let us know through the Steam Community. Describing what happened, whether you were playing solo or multiplayer, and including screenshots or reproduction steps helps us find the cause faster.
OxyRail is still in active development. We will keep improving it based on player feedback to make this journey more complete.
⭐ Share your Steam review
If you have enjoyed your travels in OxyRail, please consider taking a moment to leave an honest review on Steam.
Whether it is the satisfaction of building your train alone or adventures with friends, your experience helps other players discover the game and helps us understand what you enjoy most and what still needs work.
If you have already written a review, you are welcome to add to or update it based on your current experience after trying this update. We would love to hear about changes you like, problems you encounter, and things you hope to see.
Thank you for your support and companionship. Pack your supplies, and see you at the next station!
— The OxyRail Development Team 🚂