Aloft

• Animals Adopting You
  
  • To move animals between islands, you will have to first restore the ecosystem. Once the ecosystem is restored, an animal can adopt you, enabling you to relocate them to another island or bring them back to your home base.

• Dream Herbs
  
  • Dream Herbs are a unique crop that will be found on low vitality islands. Restore the ecosystem to gather them!
    
  • The consumption of Dream Herbs will allow you to lucid dream and control your progression (more info on the Dream System later).

• Life Trees
  
  • Each Tablemap sector contains a Life Tree, a massive tree species that wilted with the coming of the corruption.
    
  • Restoring the ecosystems of all islands surrounding these trees will revive them, revealing a vast hollow chamber at their roots that grant access to hidden rewards.
    
  • Restoring the Life Tree also imbues the sector of that biome with benefits, like favourable weather, revival of long-lost crops, and more.
    
  • Life Trees and its Saplings will grant Life Fruits: these fruits will have various purposes, notably for animal breeding and the Stormchaser system.

Added Features

• Added a prompt when interacting with an untamed animal on an unhealthy island.
  
• Added the option to hide or reveal the Room Code in both the lobby and the pause menu.
  
• Shipwreck boxes are destroyable using an axe, they give wood.
  
• Cave vines are destroyable with a sickle, but they give no resources.
  
• Island progression has been made more exciting: added Knowledge Stones, Anchors, hidden chests, symbiosis rewards, pages.
  

Bug Fixed

• Fixed an issue that caused a hang/freeze when a player hosted a multiplayer lobby, went back without starting, then started a single player game.
  
• Potential fix*/Added log for circumstances where objects would be missing in multiplayer.
  
• Potential fix*/Added log for circumstances where the save file would get corrupted.
  
• General cleanup of the save folder, no more recursive “_backup” folders.
  
• Players are now prevented from creating a character named “nul” which would cause a lot of windows-related problems.
  
• Fixed an issue where trees wouldn’t be properly synchronised while being chopped down outside of the visual range of a client.
  
• Removed the plank VFX when picking up hay stacks.
  
• Removed the plank SFX made when picking up hay stacks.
  
• Fixed a bug where the introduction tutorial would skip important steps.
  
• Fixed some missing localization (animal inspection on unhealthy islands).
  
• Removed the animal requirement for Island Restoration.
  
• Removed granary and garlic from the demo.
  

Bug Fixed

• Reworked the loading system to prevent the invisible islands/falling through the world issue. There’s now a server rate option that can be lowered by the host to increase the chances of a successful connection for a client if their connection is bad. That setting can be found under Options -> Network -> Server Rate.
  
• Reworked the positioning system to make movement (especially offset) smoother in multiplayer. This should solve some very specific desync issues when a client controls an island but isn’t driving it.
  
• Fixed a potential issue with trees spreading/planting new trees.
  
• Islands have been updated for a more rewarding progression - this includes the addition of new Knowledge Stones, Anchors, Lost Pages, and additional island restoration rewards.
  

Known Issues

• Creating a lobby then going back into single-player without launching the game will cause infinite loading. Workaround: restart the game.
  
• There might be a rare occurrence in multiplayer where Corruption Nodes don’t spawn their weak points for everyone. Workaround: have the players that see the weak points kill the node.
  
• There might be a rare occurrence in multiplayer where trees will get eaten up by the void (™) - especially if using cheats like noclip. Workaround: re-plant new trees!
  

Balancing - Combat difficulties slightly adjusted

• Guardian damage is reduced [5 -> 4].
  
• Node core health is reduced [7 -> 5].
  
• Amount of enemies spawned when fighting the node is reduced [4 -> 2].
  
• The Corruption Node's tentacles damage collider has a bigger radius [0.85 -> 1.5]. Their attacks should miss the player less often.
  
• Attacking the Nodes rewards the player with fiber [3 per weak point, 8 for the inner core].
  

Small Changes

• Added Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Russian, Japanese and Simplified Chinese Localization.
  
• Added a new font to allow for Asian characters.
  
• When a player is teleporting to an island, the carried animal will not follow. We force the player to drop what they are carrying before teleporting.
  
• Reassigned the Glider Stand quest trigger to its original path.
  

Bugs Fixed

• The female missing arm texture is fixed. On the leaf outfit, the arms were missing ref to the skin material.
  
• Missing Fresco and unloaded ruins fixed in multiplayer. The Helm Fresco and some ruins were missing if the clients discovered the island before the host.
  
• Fixed issue that caused animals to disappear into the void when saving and moving them across islands.
  
• Cannot Slide and Block at the same time.
  
• Removed the edible property on the Chestnut seed (no more Description with HP gain).
  
• Removed the unlocalized Encyclopedia entry for farming plots.
  
• “Game Saved!” is localized, but “Game Saving” is not.
  
• Many localization bugs fixed.
  
• Many other miscellaneous bugs fixed.
  

Audio

• Fix for Fresco music cutting abruptly.
  
• Fix for loading screen SFX doubling in multiplayer.
  
• Dirt footsteps replaced.
  
• Jump/land for dirt and stone replaced.
  
• Learn new crafting item replaced.
  
• Craft item replaced with temporary placeholder.
  

Known Issue

• Some players might not be able to connect to a game in multiplayer.
  

Small changes

• Added a folder button to open the world directory
  
• Nodes weak points have fewer HP
  
• Removed the ‘Wet’ screen effect
  

Resolved bugs

• Added characters in front of world files named by players, to prevent using a name reserved by the OS folder manager.
  
• Removed Plank construction cost for Sails, research table and Granary
  
• Resolved an issue with a tutorial quest not appearing
  
• Fixed an issue where the animals would teleport back on their home island
  
• Fixed an issue with the cooking station and pouches in multiplayer
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented some worlds from loading
  
• Recipe Pages no longer unlock wip meals
  
• Decomposer aren’t required to heal the symbiosis of islands with no trees
  
• Previewing the outfits in the clothing bench doesn’t make the arms appear in 1st person
  
• Alt-Tab out of the game won’t pause Wise, fixes a lot of issues
  

Known bug

• Fresco and Ruins aren’t initialised correctly when discovered for the first time in multiplayer
  

New starting environment

• New starter island and reworked island cluster
  
• New progression of resources, crops, and animals typical of the wanted early game experience
  
• Demo area has been reworked to align with intended player experience and progression
  

Frescoes

• Repository of ancient knowledge and history that unlocks key technologies
  

Introduction to the Ecosystem Restoration mechanic

• Field Guide allows the player to evaluate the health of an island
  
• New ways for the player to heal and improve the health of islands: inoculating trees with mushroom (decomposers), planting wildflowers and trees (plant variety), removing hindrances, and adding animals
  
• Resources and areas can be locked if the island is not healthy enough, animals can’t be adopted unless their ecosystem is healthy
  
• Further ways to interact with the island ecosystem will be added later
  

New wilderness assets

• Wild seeds can be harvested from small plants and used to decorate your home with a variety of flora, as well as adding plant variety to restore island ecosystems
  
• Collect reishi mushrooms to craft bandages, and create inoculants to grow more mushrooms at the base of trees
  
• Elder trees are majestic trees that can’t be cut down - use them to fuel your creativity!
  
• Bugs like ladybugs and beetles can be found and collected - further ways to interact with them will be added later
  

Introducing rock salt and charcoal

• Rock salt can be found in caves and charcoal on burned tree stumps
  
• Coal was removed from the game as it didn’t support the ecological message of Aloft
  

New corruption assets

• New enemy: the Coward
  
• New corruption node with tentacles
  

Weathered ruins & machines

• Hidden treasures, lost items, and new loot is scattered among those remnants
  
• Tools and cooking recipes can be found in ruins
  

Wrecks & anchors

• Shipwrecks and debris can be found scattered on islands
  
• Anchors are a new asset and form of discovery that unlock sailing equipment technologies
  

Sketchbook

• The sketchbook allows for the discovery of blueprints from ruins and wrecks
  
• Gather lost pages in ruins and scan objects with the sketchbook to learn new building blueprints
  

Improved VFX, SFX, and music

• New water shader and waterfall VFX
  
• New wind VFX (on islands)
  
• New SFX: building, farming, gathering resources, movement on different terrain, cave acoustics, pond and waterfall ambience, node, coward, sailing, glider stand, sewing table, sketchbook
  
• New music: loading screen ambience, fresco music/ambience, anchor music/ambience, ecosystem restoration, night time, combat
  

Glider stand

• Craft, customise, and equip the glider
  
• Further customization options and bonuses are not available yet
  

Sewing table

• Craft and customise your outfit and its colours
  
• Further customization options and bonuses are not available yet
  

Combat progression

• Monster variety advances with each node destroyed
  

Momentum system

• Skillful fighting and gliding is rewarded with momentum points, which gives the capacity to execute powerful manoeuvres
  

New cooking recipes

• Grind salt in a millstone to explore 4 new cooking recipes
  

Multiplayer

• Up to 8 players
  
• For the duration of Steam Next Fest
  

General improvements

• Partially updated UI (work in progress)
  
• Multiple quality of life improvements
  
• Multiple performance improvements
  
• And many other improvements on the overall game, ranging from textures, assets, visuals, balance, gameplay, and user experience
  

Known issues

• Created characters can’t be deleted in the game yet, you need to destroy the file
  
• The game can crash after leaving the game in alt tab for more than one hour
  
• Character's model is misplaced upon interacting very fast with a helm after another user uses it
  
• Field Guide can show animals as being present on Islands which don't have animals
  
• Sometimes, no environmental music is playing in the world
  
• The player is able to override all the key binds with only 1 key
  
• The Research Table can be unlocked but the resources for it are not available in the first island cluster
  
• Food cannot be cooked in a Multiplayer session
  
• It is possible to go out of bounds while travelling with the glider
  
• Corner Roof pieces don't snap properly on Snap Mode - Automatic, use Snap Mode - Manual in the meantime
  
• Island icons are very small when interacting with the Table-Map for the first time
  
• Waypoints aren’t functional on the Table-Map
  
• Momentum bar UI is misplaced in the inventory
  
• The Pause Menu can be accessed while loading into Worlds
  
• The user's character is teleported to a specific spot when interacting with the Glider Bench
  
• FPS drops when a player joins the session
  
• Movement Key Bindings are not translated unless the user switches tabs after changing the Language
  
• Dynamic Resolution isn’t working as intended
  
• The Leaf Chest Piece has the wrong name and description
  
• Equipping new outfits while inside the Sewing Table doubles the player character model in 1st Person Mode