Pirate merchant:

• appears in a ship between islands every few hours
  
• is visible on UI text notification and the map (M)
  
• players can swim to the ship when it has rolled up sails and climb the ladder
  
• trade your gold coins for goods and armors
  
• right now one pirate is available on the deck and ready to trade
  
• other pirates with different kind of weapons will join in the next updates

New model for glider

• better looking and optimized "pirate glider"
  
• Tip for newcomers: Craft glider parts and build glider launcher to take off. Press RMB to aim and LMB to throw a rock

Server modes and connection

• Option to start a local server from the game client (a.k.a 'Single player')!
  The long awaited option is finally there. If you feel like gathering and building on your own you can click the Local server button in the main menu and let Out of Reach establish a new game just for you and friends from your local network.
  
  
• Dedicated server in form of Steam Tools
  Here's a much more convenient way to host a server that is visible to everyone! If you didn't like the way it worked last time and don't want to install third party programs, try our dedicated server directly from Steam Tools tab! More info: OoR-Dedicated server
  
• Added main menu servers filter: 'Without password'
  
• Default servers sorting is from now by players count
  
• Added pop-up tip when joining private, non official servers
  
• The number of active official servers has been carefully checked and will be adjusted soon

Burning and destroying

• Fire particles update (bonfire, torches)
  
• Base burning updated - new flames and fire propagation, optimized burning times
  
• The boat breaks into pieces when burnt or rammed by pirate ship
  
• Increased bow range and arrow speed by 30%
  
• Fixed impossibility to destroy boats using siege weapons when player stands on a boat
  
• Fixed server stability issues after burning boats with players on them

Others

• 2x faster ladder climbing
  
• Added missing information about armor piercing of javelins in tooltips
  
• 'Visited servers' filter in main menu - shows servers that were played during last month, latest servers first
  
• 'Favorites' filter in main menu. Click stars next to server names to add them to the list of Favorite servers.
  
• Increased boulder thrower trap base damage
  
• Decreased stone axe and spear rope costs to 1 linen rope
  
• Unity engine upgrade to 5.4.x. involving lightening changes, better support for low end machines, dozens of backend improvements
  
• New mine ores textures to increase ore visibility
  
• New building component: Noticeboard - attach it to wall or big poles to write a message for other castaways
  
• Option to repair damaged building components, default key: G
  
• Updated and optimized textures and meshes of destroyed wood and bronze building components
  
• Animals won't attack ghost/not-existing players any more
  
• Additional HUD tips - icons and repair costs next to the crosshair + description of keyboard keys needed for certain actions
  
• Fixed mouse sensitivity issues
  
• Lava damage works also when player crouches
  
• Fixed regression: No information that doors are indestructible when attacking with wrong type of weapon
  
• Added HUD info about repair costs reductions
  
• No more need to hit building components "from top swing" to destroy them (due to previously added HP)
  
• Increased bronze and steel doors durability
  
• Fixed lack of sounds and particle effects on volcanic building elements

• New optimised models produce up to 50% less Drawcalls on Level of Detail 0 which should result in better overall performance
  
• New, merged textures will be easier to process and adjust

• All building elements as well as boats, trebuchets and ballistae have Durability stat now
  (removed dice roll when attacking building elements)
  
• Durability for building elements depend on origin of its raw material (wood is the weakest, volcanic the strongest)
  
• Most building elements have their own damage visual presentation (usually 3 damage dependent levels)
  
• Trebuchet can destroy boats (with 5 hits / 8 hits for steam boat)
  
• Standard ballista projectile can damage boat, balista and trebuchet (~1/7 damage comparing to siege projectile)

• Volcanic triangle foundation
  
• Volcanic jamb

• Game launcher (splash screen) removal, key bindings available in-game
  
• New graphic settings for Water

• Updated projectile particles/visual effects
  
• Updated weapon particles/visual effects
  
• Updated steam rafts smoke particles

• New and optimized destruction of the volcanic tier buildings
  
• New optimized destruction will be also applied to every other building element in the upcoming patch

• Increased stamina regeneration rate by 30%
  
• Tooltips with item statistics (currently for weapons and armors)
  
• Changed trebuchets and boats burning time - 4 seconds to take burning torch from them before they ignite
  
• Autofire for Volcanite rocks (hold LMB to gather)
  
• Bags detection by sense (press ALT to look for gatherable items)
  
• Fix for server parameter 'gathering multiplier' that didn't work for obsidian
  
• Fix for problems with whisper to players that had ' ' character in their nick
  
• Fix for lava damage in specific situations
  
• Fix for rare issue with infinite loading screen
  
• Fix for ghost sessions causing server instability

• Visible in the character/inventory tab ( I ) next to damage stats
  
• Means that in most cases e.g. blunt weapons will inflict more damage on armored enemies and less on naked survivors
  
• This way players should equip proper gear against each enemy

• Fixed missing sound of volcanite gathering
  
• Trees give 1 additional wood per hit
  
• Increased chance to gather obsidian from 1% to 5%
  
• Antycheat for rare issue of invisible players (server will freeze such players until relog)
  
• Obsidian arrow inflicts proper damage
  
• Fixed damage presentation (in the character tab) for different types of bows
  
• Poison ballista projectile poisons 8m radius area for 5s (instead of 5m radius and no duration) and costs 3 poisons instead of 5
  
• Possibility to place piles on triangle foundations and burn them down

New island!

• Another big terrain to discover and explore
  
• New volcanic biom
  
• A big place to gather new kind of resources and build a hide out
  
• Still under construction: volcanic cave, underwater plants and satellite islands
  
• Wildlife and additional points of interest will be added soon

New resources

• Volcanite and Obsidian
  
• Hit cooled volcanic rocks to gather Volcanite and gain a small chance to gather Obsidian
  
• Collect resources to upgrade buildings and craft new weapons

Volcanic building components

• Wall, Diagonal wall, Window, Battlements, Diagonal battlements, Square foundation
  
• Volcanic components have 75% chance to withstand siege attack
  
• Missing elements and Level of Detail groups to increase performance will be added soon
  
• Volcanic elements produce half the amount of drawcalls meaning that the way they are made will be also implemented into other components soon and should increase framerate on highly urbanized servers
  
• Missing volcanic components will be added in the next patch together with the new ones

Obsidian items

• Axe, Mace, Javelin, Arrows
  
• Inflict more damage than most other weapons
  
• Have lowered durability (2x lower than stone) or chance to regain (when using arrows and javelins)

Sense / Recognition of resources

• Press ALT to highlight gatherable resources within small radius
  
• This is experimental feature which should help new players with resource gathering (please give us your feedback)

Armor durability

• Each hit received cause slight damage to the armor
  
• Visualization of damaged equipped items on HUD
  
• Random armor elements are NOT destroyed on player's death anymore

Keys / gamepad remapping

• Fix for problems with building panel closing when gamepad was connected
  
• Fix for problems with screen rotating around when gamepad was connected

Bugfixes and minor changes

• Fix for '3rd arm case'. Additional hand with weapon should not be displayed as the 3rd hand anymore
  
• Fix for tiger animations (run and hit)
  
• Fix for a case when foundations built on cliffs near water blocked caves' boat entrances
  
• Fix for footsteps sounds (sometimes wrong sounds were played on different surfaces)
  
• Fixes for build element names and descriptions (mostly in the upgrade panel)
  
• Bronze doors can't be destroyed with stone or bone weapon anymore
  
• Steel doors can be destroyed only with steel weapon (and siege) now
  
• Speed of run and walk has been increased by 10%
  
• Opening of chests on docked/moored boats is only possible by players that have rights to given building (on which mooring bollard stands)
  
• Increased gather time of plants on fields and inside flowerpots
  
• Much better terrain visualization on DirectX 9
  
• Optimized net transfers of animals that should highly improve latency on slower servers

Changelog 0.18.1: Feedback fixes

Steam cards, badges and icons!

Character creator

New chat

Main features that we are currently working on:

Underwater life

The new island

• First two versions: wooden and steel (the next upgrade will come together with a new, "gatherable" material in July)
  
• Require less effort to craft than a bow to let players hunt from the first minutes of the gameplay
  
• Possibility to regain thrown javelins (75%)
  
• Possibility to stack up to 5 javelins

• Forging on an anvil requires 2x less hits

• Another pack of 17 tips and hints to make the first steps in the world of Out of Reach easier
  
• Tips will pop up whenever player is about to use the game's feature for the first time

• The last used IP and port number stay in the blanks
  
• Fixed option to repair a ceiling that holds stairs on its frame
  
• Fixed the way weapon changing is triggered - please report if you happen to have "three arms" in FPP view again
  

Changelog 0.16.0

Changelog 0.15.0:

• Chipped stone
  
• Stone axe

• have greatly improved pathfinding
  
• can go everywhere they want if it's not too steep
  
• avoid rocks, cliffs, narrow passages, buildings, other animals etc.
  
• keep distance from newly respawned players
  
• stop to chase when players get out of their territory
  
• keep distance from predators (doesn't apply to other carnivores)
  
• run away from players if they can't win the fight (e.g. from shooting bowmen on towers)
  
• can see and smell players (smell works on smaller distances but also behind animals)
  
• will try to scare off players that they see or smell before attacking
  
• can stop chasing after 15sec (if they can't catch a player)
  
• return to use the old AI system when server crashes or doesn't work properly
  
• are very susceptible to improvements, new features like a fear of fire should come together with the new patches

• Heads-Up Display: Different design, same functionality
  
• User Interface: Achievements and skills window moved to the 'book menu'

• Reworked shaders and the whole new way the water is being rendered
  
• Ocean finally reflects the Moon
  
• Possibility to dive (use C and SPACE or A and D keys)
  What we are going to work on:
  
• Better shoreline
  
• Underwater life
  
• Underwater features like hunting, treasure finding
  
• Improved physics

• Trebuchet's counterweight issues
  
• Fixed duplicated trees and bushes on the same position
  
• Change the way light affects environment (many minor changes to ambient light, shadows, occlusion etc.)
  
• Fixed issues with respawn animation
  
• Fixed icon issues when splitting and dragging items
  
• Increased swimming speed by 30%
  
• Menu option to turn on/off terrain reflections on water
  
• Better animation of boulders thrown from gliders
  
• Fixed grass that wouldn't cut when placing foundations on it
  
• Fixed flying cliff on the main island
  
• Engine update to Unity 5.3.5