Aloft

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a collider issue on Elder Trees that caused players to get stuck in the branches
  
• Fixed a terrain piece that was missing colliders in Red Cliffs
  
• Fixed an issue where players could rejoin a multiplayer session after being banned
  
• Fixed an issue where animals failed to load in properly when Personal Homes were spawned
  
• Fixed an issue that caused dropped animals to disappear
  
• Fixed an issue that caused cooking plates to disappear
  
• Fixed an issue where the “Ordered one of each” achievement would not trigger
  
• Fixed an issue that caused error logs on dedicated servers

NEW CONTENT

• Added new critter: firefly
  
  • Fireflies will only spawn on newly discovered islands
    
• Added an animation in 1st person when luring birds with feed
  
• Added 24 critter stands & trellis building pieces

SMALL CHANGES

• Dropping flying insects will place them in the air instead of on the ground
  
• Resized a lot of critters (small adjustments)
  
• Vivariums and the pigment pool automatically till the grass underneath
  
• Storage chests and baskets now have the option to quick drop (only items already present in the storage can be dropped)
  
• Reduced the intensity of the ripple VFX when standing still in water
  
• Increased the hitbox of gatherable planks
  
• Flower and rock vivariums can now hold a stack of critters, instead of 1. Stacks may only be composed of one critter type

BALANCING

• Vivariums can now accommodate critters from every biome. They still require to be of the correct type (ex. butterflies can only be put inside a flower vivarium)
  
• Queen bee larvae are now twice as common in natural bee nests
  
• Corruption cores won’t spawn monsters indefinitely

BUG FIXES

• Bee nests on the leviathan no longer clip into the tree’s collider
  
• Pressing [TAB] and picking up an animal will no longer cause a soft lock
  
• Item pouches can now be interacted through other colliders
  
• Can no longer overwrite a custom island file by creating a new one with the same name
  
• LODs on the rope bundle prop now maintains detail further away, preventing final LOD from disappearing
  
• Islands marked as too heavy can no longer be sailed
  
• Shared Homes now trigger the “At Home” condition and the home theme song
  
• Invasive plants should now only be present on unhealthy islands
  
• The Stormchaser input will no longer accept input from the prior menu
  
• Planting tree seeds won’t have a missing texture on the previewed model
  
• Moonlight Moths are now functional when equipped in the hotbar
  
• Fixed an issue where habitats from Fallen Heights and Red Cliffs wouldn’t be detected properly
  
• Going back to the main menu will now re-initialize the input type properly (controller vs keyboard/mouse)
  
• The character animation will no longer trigger the default state by accident as much
  
• Stone stairs should now align properly with one another
  
• Replaced incorrect materials on upper pond of Fallen Heights and Red Cliffs pond habitats and vivariums
  
• Tree vivariums now properly display birds and bats depending on which type of critter is placed in them
  
• Fixed an issue where a player couldn’t join a session
  
• Fixed an issue where players would see different terrain pieces on the same island in a multiplayer session

AUDIO

• Added audio for the firefly
  
• Fixed some music-related issues

USER INTERFACE

• There is no longer placeholder text in landing pad menu
  
• All homes (personal or shared) from any player will have an home icon tracker
  
• Knowledge Stones now correctly display the vivariums and habitats texts when hovered
  
• The description for frogs have been updated to better reflect what biome they are native to
  
• The blur behind the landing pad menu should scale to any aspect ratios
  
• Localisation has been fixed on the animal bell sign
  
• Vivariums have been moved to the storage section of the build catalogue
  
• Removed the birdhouse warning pop up
  
• Fixed issue with the “back” button of the landing pad menu not scaling properly to ultrawide resolutions

BUG FIXES

• Melee swing wont trigger leap attacks by default
  
• The leviathan will snap to the right position when flying out of bounds
  
• Fixed snapping issues with wood shingle roof inverted triangle piece
  
• Fixed an issue where the keyboard of UI elements was displaced
  
• Removed the place-holder firefly geo until we have the proper rig
  
• Replaced the plant diversity icons (Emerald Isles and some for Fallen Heights)
  
• Removed unused empty “in construction” states from Trellis construction pieces within the Island Creator
  
• Fixed issue with Opal beam having placeholder material when placed in the Island Creator
  
• The vivariums and habitats can now be unlocked properly
  
• The variants of the Emerald Isle perched tree vivarium are now behaving correctly
  
• Potential Fix: Players can sometimes get stuck in an Infinite loading screen when creating Multiplayer Sessions

CHANGES THAT WILL ONLY APPLY TO A NEW WORLD

• Exploration challenges have been added to all Emerald Isle islands
  
  • Rare resource spawns and animals have been added as challenge rewards
• Fixed an issue where starting cluster chests would appear outside of the starting cluster (which led to disappointing loot)

KNOWN ISSUES

• Reishi and animals disappearing from player’s Personal Homes
  
• Crashes / file corruption
  
• Potential memory leak that persists through sessions
  
• Some actions are not triggering the Steam achievement

• Unlocking the Red Cliffs Habitats also unlocks the Red Cliffs Vivariums
  
• Bats don’t spawn properly. They can be found on terrain instead of their normal habitat
  
• The order in which you unlock the vivariums in a preexisting game doesn’t align correctly with player progression
  
• The difference between what the habitats and vivariums do is not clear enough

UPCOMING ANIMATION IMPROVEMENTS

• Bird and bat eating in your hands
  
• Critter interaction in hands (1x per critter)
  
• Critters idle in their habitats (bird house, burrow, etc)
  
• Bat idle on ground
  
• Many idle breaks (bird, jerboa, bat, bugs)
  
• Movement animations while holding critter (jump, run, slide, etc)
  
• Bat wings visual fix
  
• Bird Feed holding position fix
  
• General animation polish

Collect all the critters! 🦇🐸

Wonder Islands 💭

Shared Homes 🤝

CRITTERS

• Critters can be found scattered across the world of Aloft with varying spawn points
  
  • Small Animals: frogs, jerboas, lizards, birds, and bats
    
  • Insects: butterflies, bees, moths
    
  • New models for: worm, beetles, and ladybug
• Critters can be picked up and equipped in the toolbar
  
• New crafting recipes have been added: The Bug Net, Bird Feed, and Bat Feed
  
• Some critters can be lured by holding feed
  
• Some critters can only be collected with the Bug Net tool
  
• Islands now have a new ecosystem need: Small animals diversity

NEW BUILDING PIECES

• Beehives
  
  • Used for beekeeping
    
  • Produces honey and wax, and bees will spawn nearby
    
  • Gathering resources from Beenests and Beehives will sometimes give a Queen Bee Larvae which is required to craft a beehive
• Landing Pads
  
  • Can be placed to assign an animal landing spot
    
  • Used for sending animals to another island in a safe and controlled manner
• Animal Bells
  
  • Bells will attract or teleport animals to it when rung
    
  • Affects only tamed animals
    
  • Can assigned to a specific type of farm animal or all farm animals
• Habitats
  
  • Critters can spawn on habitats
    
  • Unlockable via sketching and knowledge stones
• Vivariums
  • Players can build vivariums to showcase their critters
    
  • Unlockable via sketching and knowledge stones
  
  

PERSONAL HOME + SHARED HOME ISLANDS

• Quality-of-life changes to Personal Home islands
  
  • The dedicated server parameter preventing players from importing their home island is gone. Now, you’ll need an explicit authorisation *only* to set a new Personal Home island
  • Spawning/Despawning Personal Homes is now automatically allowed, with no way to forbid it.
• Introduction of Shared Homes Islands
  
  
  • Accessed through the Home Island kite
    
  • Allows players to share and collaborate on the same Shared Home
    
  • Allows players to spawn and teleport to the same Shared Home using the Shared Home tab (in the player menu)
    
  • Shared Homes behave as home for the game states (gives ‘at home’ condition, etc.)

MISC. CHANGES

• Water opals can now be placed in the editor and gathered in-game (grants 1 water opal)
  
• The Opal and Golden Feather decorative pieces can no longer be unlocked through Knowledge Stones. They can now be discovered in Wonder Islands within a new world
  
• Corrupted Animals and Animal Pods have an updated Mykter texture
  
• Removed the Occlusion Box option from the Island Creator
  
• The spinner can now spin fibres (wool/linen) into thread
  
• The loot obtained from chests (wood, stone, hidden, locked) is now based on the biome in which they are placed
  
• Rope baskets now cost waxed rope
  
• Gamepad support for world backup menu
  
• This update techs’ can now be unlocked via Knowledge Stones
  
• Localisation updates
  
• The Field Guide now indicates that the decomposer need requires diversity instead of an amount
  

BUG FIXES

• Major bug fix with timed parameters in worlds that have existed for a long time. This means that multiple behaviours in the game will now stay consistent over time and behave accordingly (machines will output resources, trees will mature, animals will age)
  
• Major bug fix where memory usage would increase continuously over very long game sessions
  
• Major bug fix where saving/reloading objects (especially home islands) could result in unexpected behaviours, leading to file corruption
  
• Multiple island fixes: spawn points, hidden rewards, missing textures, missing Mykter barriers, clipping and floating assets, collisions
  
• Fixed an issue that caused a problem with dedicated servers that were running in a screen-less environment
  
• Destroying the wormboxes now gives back a worm
  
• Wild veggies are no longer harvestable on unhealthy islands
  
• No loss of resources when failing at repairing a bird house
  
• Smaller islands surrounding heavy islands can now be claimed as homes
  
• Field Guide will no longer show corrupted islands as healthy
  
• Fixed the Field Guide / Pause Menu softlock
  
• Fixed the Gliding / Pause Menu softlock in multiplayer
  
• Fixed an issue where fresco doors could be opened on a corrupted islands
  

ACCESSIBILITY

• Added a motion sickness preset

UI/UX

• Some user interfaces have been improved
  • Sailing UI
    
  • Certain in-game buttons
    
  • Text prompts
    
  • Menu design
• Major Field Guide changes
  • New corruption pages
    
  • New insect diversity pages
    
  • New small animal diversity pages
    
  • Updated icons

SOUND EFFECTS, VISUAL EFFECTS, AND ANIMATIONS

• New SFX for critters, animal bells, animal landing pads
  
• New VFX for animals bells, animal landing pads
  
• New animations for critters, interacting with critters, animal bells, bug net

CHANGES THAT WILL ONLY APPLY TO A NEW WORLD

• World Design
  • 2 new Wonder Islands that contain rare resources, sketchable building pieces/decor, and hidden rewards. They have been placed in Fallen Heights & Red Cliffs
    
  • 16 new regular islands added
    
  • Variations and small tweaks on starting cluster islands
    
  • New points of interests for all biomes
    
  • New points of interest caves for Emerald Isles
    
  • Trellis construction pieces can no longer be found in points of interest and Emerald Isles fresco islands
    
  • Linen lanterns and linen furniture with darkwood can no longer be found in points of interest, fresco islands, and the Fallen Heights Wonder Islands. The only exception is the sawmill fresco
• NEW critters (jerboas, lizards, butterflies, moths, frogs, bats) will spawn in newly-created worlds and unexplored islands in older worlds
  
• Critters that were already present in the Field Guide will spawn in older worlds as well, even if those islands were already explored

UPCOMING CHANGES

• Bug fixing
  
• UX improvements
  
• Complete localization (a few keys are still missing in non-English languages)
  
• Multiple critter animation improvements and added variety
  
• New critter-related building options