Drastically improved build performance for many builds
Improved world loading
Food times and values have been balanced
Bow craft now shows after Tuskan gem placed
Added save/load for held items
Added notification on game save
HUD notifications improved
Removed stop movement on UI select for turning
Animals alive state is now being saved
Added quiver that can be attached to the bow for faster archery
Shovel digging has been made easier
Added archery target to practice shooting skills
Added sled that can be used to pull objects early in the game
Added cart that can be used to pull objects later in the game
Added quests
Movement speed is now reduced based on held items
Reed model has been reworked
Added fall damage
Added notification if player is already full and can't eat more
Character collider is now a lot slimmer which allows to go closer to tables
🔥 Bug Fixes
Fixed bug that caused the legs to disappear when unequipping leather pants
Fixed haptics not working after respawn
Removed trees near boss statues
Fixed drops from animals that clip in the ground
Fixed bug that caused the hurt SFX to continue playing after death
Double crouching now doesn't go below crouch level
v0.3.2: Regular Update
* New Features - Removed pocket slots - New crafts/builds/sews are now unlocked on gem place in spawn not on boss defeat - On gem place in spawn, a notification appears if new stuff is unlocked - Added falling animation if in air - Character head hidden to not get in player vision - Metal visuals has been improved (bronze weapons) - Bed sleep position improved - Added seated height custom parameter to adjust height when seated. Improved automatic seated height detection - Dynamic mining now always gets mined. Previously if the hit point was far from an edge, it didn't register - Hands size now always the same in all heights - Gem power now appears in handbook - Tanning rack bottom stick disabled for accessibility - Boars now spawn in forests too. Works only in new worlds - Mouth collider is now bigger - Digging now reduces durability of shovel - Added stone hit sound effect - Tanning reduced durability loss on dagger - Removed swing stamina reduction - Removed hand tiring (losing control of hands if swinging too hard) - Made dynamic mining visual effects smaller to not get too much into face - Stamina tired sound effect now is called only when stamina reaches 0 - Stamina drain reduced when running and jumping - Homestead music volume lowered down - Removed placing blueprint parts from a distance - Hitting a forge now gives it only 1 heat instead of 5 - Added haptics to bow pulling - Improved world loading time - Increased boar spawn distance from spawn - Chisel texturing improved - Removed all colliders from hands when dead - Removed tin vein near spawn - Sun moves more frequently - Hands will now collide with backpack and handbook less frequently - Added option to add item to backpack quickly by releasing it over either shoulder - Boss statue heads now save - Build parts now save - Added left hand pose for trigger button - All tools now do damage to animals - Throwing tools at animals now do damage - Added water breath visual indicator - Made world brighter and improved sun colors - Improved HUD - Running now works only when going forward - Grabbing hot items now disabled. Grabbing only allowed if item is cool or with tongs - When digging dirt now always spawns - Creative mode now temporarily unlocks all crafts, builds and sews - Distance grabbing items from the ground increased from 1.5m to 2m - Improved left hand pointers (build, ui) - Build complete message now shows - Increased stamina and health regeneration - Bow now doesn't shoot arrow if pull is weak - Backpack can now be placed in front by pressing the trigger - Backpack and handbook moved to shoulders - Tanning rack now saves placed hide - Leather item made thicker - Improved reed LOD - Added message when backpack is full or incompatible item is selected - Dynamic mining drop rate changed to volume based
* Bug Fixes - Fixed copper ore stops heating when player goes far away and comes back - Fixed eating food when a consumed food is in half life - Fixed when selecting menu and grab item, can't use thumbstick - Fixed handbook falling down on grab - Fixed smelter, anvil and quench tank LODs - Tin ingot now smelts into Tin correctly - Rabbit now doesn't clip into the ground when it dies - Fixed items not falling down when digging ground under them - Homestead world name under 3 characters validation now shows - Fixed bug where tree did damage to player after it has fallen down - Fixed bug where transparent materials were colored incorrectly - Backpack items position, rotation and scale fixed - Fixed bug where the terrain would update incorrectly at start - Fixed bug where rabbit meat cooked moved the time from the tooltip on consumed food hover - Fixed bug where chest items were visible but couldn't get picked up - Fixed bug where two bronze ingots could have not get heated at the same time in the smelter - Fixed bug where jumping while dead still produced a sound - Keyboard now hides when exiting dialog in homestead - Fixed bug where loaded item in backpack would not behave accordingly when picked up - Fixed bug where going back to homestead caused an error - Fixed scroll flicker in handbook - Fixed bug where mining with stone axe gave no stone - Fixed bug where sometimes liquid metal from ingots went under the smelter surface - Fixed bug where placing a gem in spawn on the first world session and selecting it, gave no power
v0.3.1: Regular Update
* New Features - Increased performance on most used builds - Tanning rack hide save/load added - Cooking stand meat save/load added - Builds can now be placed on other blueprint builds (not yet finished builds) - Bow has been reworked - Added seated setting for when you are playing on a chair - Campfire now uses wood fuel for sticks and twigs - Stamina added to left hand bracelet - Added snap builds button to builds tab in handbook. Use it to toggle snapping on/off - Consumed food save/load added - When crouching now the speed is reduced by half - Added eating effects - Pocket slots now save rotation of tool - When destroy build in creative, it now doesn't drop any items - Camera now doesn't go above player - Changed blueprint parts for the stairs build - Added colliders to boss 3's portal - Increase hand reach - Added scroll bar to crafting table - Durability of stone tools increased to 128; bone tools to 256; bronze tools to 512 - Dagger now gets damaged when tanning - When breaking bone in a craft, the unneeded bone part now disappears immediately - Bone hammer fixed hitting on chisels - Shadows density decreased to 50%
* Bug Fixes - Fixed bug where campfire wood glitched player's hand on grab - Fixed leather sewing - Fixed orientation flicker for quadruped animals - Fixed bug where health of player didn't recover on respawn - Fixed teleport on builds - Fixed bug where sewing table broke after rag pants sew - Tuskan name fixed - Fixed Tuskan doesn't attack after player comes back to fight it - Fixed bug where bronze ingot stays in place when grabbing with tongs - Fixed bone pickaxe recipe to be medium handle not long handle
🔨 Smithing Update Has Arrived!
* New Features - Added tin ore vein that generates near water. It can be mined to get tin ore - Added copper ore vein that generates in deep forest. It can be mined to get copper ore - All boulders and veins now can be mined dynamically - change the object's shape as you hit it - Improved game lighting and shadows - Added wolf that spawns in deep forest. Be careful, it bites! - Added wolf boss (3rd boss) portal that is currently sealed because the boss is on vacation - Added clay deposits in deep forest. They can dug with a shovel to get clay - Added new build Smelter. It can be used to smelt ore into ingots. Mixing copper and tin makes bronze - Added new item Clay Crucible. It can be used to transport liquid metal (like copper). It can be used to mix together copper and tin to make bronze in ratio 8:2 - Added new item Clay Ingot Mold that can be used to create ingots - Added simple ingots: copper and tin. These are only placeholders for now because they don't have any use. They also can't be smelted back to liquid yet - Added complex ingot bronze, which can be hammered into a different shape. It has volumetric properties and can be used on the anvil - Added Wooden Tongs craft. They can be used to hold any object but are meant to be used with hot ingots - Added new build Anvil. It can be cast from bronze and allows forging of bronze tools - Added new tools: Bronze Axe, Dagger, Hammer, Pickaxe, Shovel, and Sword. All tools except the sword are next tier after bone, which means they have better durability and do more damage. The sword can be forged but is only a placeholder for now as it doesn't do damage. This will change in future updates - Added Quench Tank build. The finished forge can be quenched inside this tank to produce the final tool item - Added wolf meat, hide, head - Ores and wood now have max burn value after which they disappear - Improved world and character upgrade system - Improved save/load of data. More statuses will be added to the saves in the future
* Bug Fixes - Fixed bug which prevented placing builds on top of each other
v0.2.146 Regular Update
🆕 New Functionality
- Trees have been changed for new models. Tree chopping functionality has been improved. The tree can now also do damage to the player if it drops on top of them - Auto save added. Default value is 10 minutes. The player can adjust it in the menu book. It can also be turned off or set to a maximum value of 120 minutes - Equipped armor now saves - Equipped pocket tools now save - Can scroll UI with thumbstick and moving and turning is disabled - Disabled 'Back to Homestead' button when dead in Homestead - Items now not rolling away from player - Wiki has been changed and extra controls have been added. Will add more info there in later versions - The day-night system has been enabled. Each day-night cycle is 60 minutes. You can elapse time with the bed - The bed build has been enabled and can be now used. When the player clicks on the icon, they can sleep. The time elapses faster and the player wakes up in the morning. The respawn point is also set to the last bed the player has slept on - Added rabbit, boar and deer sounds effects - Branches can now be broken into sticks in the sawbuck - New build has been added - the chest. Save your items in this extra storage. Only backpack items are compatible with the chest. I will add tool and wood racks in later versions - Rabbits, boars and deers now don't roll away - When canceling a craft, the craft now resets and the used items are lost - Sawbuck menu enhanced with available input items - Sound effects are now pooled which makes them start immediately - Added sound effect to stick to twigs break
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fixed bug where the player couldn't climb stairs - Fixed bug where the boar head coulnd't be grabbed from a distance - Fixed bug where sound effect played for boulder destruction when there was none - Fixed unbuilt floor on load game - Fixed hands flickering when walking on any build - Fixed bug where when crafting the stone pickaxe, the stone could be put first - Saved meat now loads correctly as cooked or burnt - Distance building bugs have been fixed - Fixed regular table having 4 extra branch requirements - Fixed bug where handcraft items could be combined in the backpack - Fixed bug where the world and player names in the Menu book were empty when going back to Homestead - Fixed bug where some sticks in the tanning rack build were not transparent on place - Fixed crafting table tooltip being blank - Fixed bug where placing dirt moved boulders, trees and builds up - Fixed bug where stealth eye remained open after boar dies - Fixed bug where loaded big planks didn't work in the sawbuck - Fixed bug where objects went through the terrain. An object can still clip if it's moving fast. If it does, you can wait for a bit for it to get teleported to the surface - Fixed bug where a loaded sapling is 100 times bigger - Fixed bug where a single item could be used in two separate builds
v0.2.145 Regular Update
🆕 New Functionality
- Added icons to Handbook stats - Added tooltips to stats by suggestion of Lifeinsteps - Added Handbook and Backpack right hand grabbing poses - Removed break build binding from primary button on right hand (A on Quest 2). Can now only access from Handbook Builds menu - Added binding to primary button on left hand to open the Menu book since Valve Index doesn’t have a menu button like Quest 2 - When building, the later parts are now almost invisible to let the player focus on the current order and not try to build later parts (legs of a table before the top) - By suggestion of ChibiArcher I made the tooltip (the window that shows up when you go over a craft) not clip through the book - Left hand has been made equal to the right hand. Everything you can do with the right hand, you can now do with the left hand: interact with UI, pick up objects from a distance, build, break build, place dirt. - Reduced hand grab distance from 20 cm to 15 cm (the near grab not the distance grab) - Crouch eye now opens when the player is detected by animals and bosses - Added health bars to animals - Slight change in the stone dagger model - Added grab hand poses to all tools - Added inverted grab to all tools (can grab both ways, rogues rejoice!) - Consumed food removed floating point from timer and added minutes/seconds - Added jump sound effect - Disabled stamina hud by suggestion of JustFrosty - Disabled distance item placement for crafts - Arrow craft improved: slide is 60% easier; added indicator; reset craft on cancel; fixed white spots - Improved performance on standalone devices by a lot (Quest, Quest 2, Quest Pro) - Changed ocean shader a bit - Added virtual keyboard. You can now name your characters and worlds the way you want and play the same seed as your friend - Optimized the Homestead - Added panting sound effect when under 20% stamina
🔥 Bug Fixes
- Fixed hand offsets - When let go of object it now correctly goes into the world (it was attached to the backpack before) - Backpack items now drop on death spot not where you last opened the backpack - When picking item from backpack if another item is near, it gets picked up too but scale stays the same - Pocket slots now only store tools and not items - Improved Handbook, Backpack and pocket slots interaction - Fixed bug where the player couldn’t put items in the backpack after it was released from the right hand - Fixed bug where picking items without distance grab caused items to be stuck in the air and move weird - Fixed a bug where the damage canvas was interactable - Bone shovel can now dig - Removed a fun bug where the player could use a shovel to fly around - Removed loading screen artifacts - Fixed bug where player’s HP is exactly 0 but player doesn’t die, and consequent errors
Closed Beta and Free Demo Start 13th March
We are most excited to announce the Closed Beta Release next week!
You will also be able to play our Free Demo. Join our newsletter at http://premortalvr.com and we will send you your free key when the demo is available!
Demo starts tomorrow!
Base Builder Fest Demo
Hello, fellow premortals!
We are happy to announce that we will be releasing a demo version of the game for this year's Steam Base Builder Fest.
The demo will be available starting January 23rd and will last a week. It will feature 30 unique building blocks that you can use to make your dream base.
