Blight

• Reworked sun position to only be set every few frames rather than every frame to reduce amount of flickering you may see around the edges of the shadows, especially at lower settings
  
• Reworked cloud shadow rendering to take the new sun positioning into account
  
• Added ability to chop up dead logs to receive scrap wood
  
• Added new input to switch between top-down and third-person perspectives (only with keyboard/mouse, default key: H)
  
• Added smoked fish recipes
  

• Fixed third-person mode field of view (FOV) being incorrectly zoomed out after the character customization update (v0.10.0)
  
• Fixed wrong terrain height calculation near chunk borders that would cause terrain levelling to creates spikes along these borders
  
• Fixed smoked item tooltips showing "hardening" percentage instead of smoked percentage
  
• Fixed female character dress behavior when walking
  
• Fixed creatures getting into a state where they run around the player without being able to hit them
  
• Fixed potential hang when starting or loading a game with large view distance on MacOS
  

• Removed superfluous texture sampling calls in terrain rendering to increase framerate a small amount
  

• Reduced stamina cost when using shovels
  

• Increased environmental brightness in various cloudy conditions
  
• Increased sky brightness below the horizon (if on a mountain or hill)
  

• Finally added ability to break up all large rocks/boulders with a pickaxe
  
• Added new grass anti-aliasing graphics setting that greatly reduces "twinkling" of grass and other foliage as the camera moves around slowly. Note that this setting adds a decent performance impact due to the removal of a rendering optimization step related to grass-based surfaces
  

• Fixed long-standing issue of the anti-aliasing setting not being loaded properly on game start-up
  
• Fixed floor lengths not being updated to work with the new snap-to-grid distance increase for beams/walls
  
• Fixed fish not triggering fish traps as much as they should
  
• Removed "rabbit remains" for fish when they decay
  
• Reduced bonus stack size for hearth furnace slots to avoid situations where you can't add enough fuel to complete the smelt
  
• Fixed infinite splash effect when creatures die in fairly shallow water
  
• Added speed reduction when the character is approaching a target position for an interaction such as piloting a raft to avoid jittering at the center
  
• Fixed being able to walk into a raft's storage area to push it across the water
  
• Fixed fish not properly passing on their infection level to their resulting meat items in certain cases
  

• Removed spawn chance of hostile creatures near camp at night
  
• Greatly reduced chance hostile creatures wandering near camp
  

• Increased depth that posts can be placed in water to better allow for protection against hostile creatures
  
• Reworked creature disease state to be set when they spawn rather than when they die. Won't change things much now but will better set up the game for breeding animals and whatnot later on
  
• Reworked how the far-away terrain is rendered to no longer rely on stencil masks but still nicely blend between it and the nearby detailed terrain
  

• Fixed ranged attack targeting in top-down mode - the target circle was behaving oddly when aiming higher than the character (ex. up a hill)
  
• Fixed ranged attack targeting in third-person mode - specifically for throwing stones, the angle calculation was done from the wrong point causing the stone to be thrown to the right
  
• Fixed in-inventory dead rabbits losing their inventory state when loading a save, causing their harvestable items to be empty when trying to harvest after being dropped
  
• Fixed internal error happening during nighttime due to missing fish spawn data
  

• Added a migration of demo saves to the full game. This will only happen for players launching the full game the first time before any settings files are created to make sure the demo saves don't overwrite any full game saves
  
• Added stockpile support for charcoal, pebbles, and a new extra large stockpile added for thin trunks
  
• Added new game preferences storage system, currently saving whichever game customization options you set when starting a new game so that it will be re-shown the next time you try to start another custom difficulty game
  
• Added "kill" item action for live rabbits in your inventory
  

• Updated credits for character modelling
  
• Removed "experimental" from third-person control mode, it's fairly stable now!
  

New Features

Character customization

Game customization

Fishing with fish traps

Bows and arrows

Melee/ranged toggle for spears

Ability to pick up creatures

Other Additions/Changes

• Added selection outline brightness option
  
• Reworked player melee attack collision detection to be a lot more forgiving, factoring in highlight of enemies into the attack rather than always checking directly in front of the player character
  
• Added quiver container that only stores arrows, must be equipped on the belt to be able to provide the bow attack interaction with arrows
  
• Added long plank wall
  
• Increase support beam connection distance slightly to allow one more snap-to-grid position
  
• Added character outline to main inventory window with (currently unused) new chest, legs and feet slots
  

Fixes

• Added detection of controller inputs at the start of the game that you can now turn off, in cases where controllers were added unwanted input like navigating up throughout the menus
  
• Fixed crafting recipes with multiple output items not preserving input condition percent properly
  

Q1 (Jan - March)

• Character customization - male/female characters with some basic customization options (more advanced will come later)
  
• Game customization - customize game settings for new games like world Blight levels, enemy counts/behavior, etc.
  
• Fishing - starting with fishing traps first followed by actual fishing with rods
  
• More items, buildings, weapons - bows & arrows, hoe, flint/bronze tool heads & blades, melee mode for spear, traps, etc.
  

Q2 (April - June)

• Injury/would system - bleeding/bandaging, localized damage, infections, etc.
  
• More advanced building system - large wooden posts/beams, multiple levels, fireplaces, stairs, etc.
  
• Weather/seasons - temperature & clothing, snow, expanded food preservation for winter
  

Q3 (July - Sept)

• Skills/proficiency system - get better at certain tasks over time through repetition
  
• Other survivors/NPCs - find isolated survivors and their campsites, trade or fight
  
• Glass blowing - create glass objects, windows, etc. using things like slag from metalworking
  

Q4 (Oct - Dec)

• Story continuation - with all the above features in place, continue the story and seek the cure by collaborating with other survivors for various resources, clear out the infection in villages with their help, and start resettling villages
  
• Animal husbandry - taming and breeding animals
  

• Added Brazilian Portuguese, German and Spanish
  

• Fixed inventory being unusable when you are targeted by a nearby hostile creature
  
• When transferring liquids between containers, the default selected value will be the max amount to make this process smoother
  

• Added an often-requested transfer amount popup when moving item stacks or filling containers. You can hold shift when dragging then releasing an item stack to another slot (or press Y on an XBox controller) to open a transfer amount popup that lets you fine tune how much to transfer. This is also shown when filling a container with another, allowing you to select the exact amount of liquid to transfer
  
  
• Added a proper terrain levelling function to the shovel (default Ctrl + left click). An indicator will appear showing the height and range of the levelling process, and this indicator will snap to certain height steps to allow for more obvious terrain planning for your camp. Note that this feature won't work if the terrain difference is too steep, so add/remove dirt with the shovel first to be able to level things properly.
  
• Added a way to snap shelter building pieces to a grid by holding Left Alt (or DPad left on controllers) to better layout your posts and walls. Let me know how this grid feels and if you'd like any changes!
  

• Fixed queued crafting recipes with liquid outputs (ex. berry juice) continuing even if the destination container is full
  
• Fixed language change not setting the new language in all places within the game, requiring a game restart
  
• Fixed French translation issues and missing translations for French/Russian
  
• Fixed errors when dragging a floor
  
• Fixed PS5 select button glyph
  

• Reworked floor placement process to be much less strict about how flat the terrain needs to be to avoid unneeded flattening with shovel after placement. Coupled with the new levelling feature done in advance, you should almost never need to flatten the ground to complete the floor
  
• Terrain smoothing was moved from Ctrl+left click to Ctrl+right click to allow the new levelling feature to take priority. Smoothing has also been reworked to be much quicker and line up with the digging animation
  

• Added on-screen keyboard for text input for non-Steam Deck controllers (Steam Deck was already using its built in keyboard system)
  
• Added a new controller glyph dropdown setting to choose the glyphs you want to see if the game can't properly detect the controller you are using
  
• Added stat bar labels to show their name and values when using any in-game menus with a controller
  

• Fixed sensitivity of keyboard-based camera rotation
  
• Fixed being unable to right click on the player icon to create a map marker
  
• Fixed map zoom sensitivity via scrollwheel
  
• Lowered the inventory controls help bar on 130%+ UI scale so it doesn't overlap any important UI elements like buttons
  
• Fixed first combat hint showing "no input mapping" text when using a controller
  

• Increased rain visibility when cloudy and at night
  

• Fixed copper alembic extract button showing an empty list of destination container items
  
• Fixed inventory sort not sorting item names correctly due to singular/plural forms of the item names
  
• Attempt to fix PS4/5 controller detection for proper glyph display
  
• Fixed up placement rotation speed with mousewheel to be more granular, as well as making rotation with controllers more consistent regardless of framerate
  
• Fixed being unable to click player-made map markers to delete them
  
• Fixed some buttons being clickable when they shouldn't be (ex. in distillation)
  
• Fixed hand cart wheel rim break down recipe mistakenly giving 5 rims instead of 1
  
• Actually fixed hand cart wheel rim held position, the original fix applied to the wrong item
  
• Fixed error related to letting go of a dragged item in certain situations causing an uncaught exception and not behaving properly