• This is a very small hotfix for a server-side crash the game has been experiencing along with other small changes.
  
  

  General

  
  
• Fixed a server-side crash related to burrows being destroyed
  
• Fixed some foliage shader issues on V3
  
• Temporarily disabled the crash reporter while a new backend is implemented
  

Why are we doing this?

How long will this take?

So, what does that mean for you, the community?

• This is a very small patch intended to address issues with certain dinosaur attacks that came to the forefront recently.
  
  

  General

  
  
• Shader optimizations to foliage assets
  
  

  Bug Fixes

  
  
• Fixed Trikes, Paras, Galli's and Shant's no longer dealing primary attack damage appropriately
  

General


• Reduced scale of in-world nest icon
  
• Improved net relevancy for burrows and their owners
  
  

  Bug Fixes

  
  
• Fixed males being able to place nests
  
• Fixed losing 100 bite damage when going from juvenile to subadult Triceratops
  
• Fixed burrows vanishing instantly when no occupants are inside
  
• Fixed being unable to invade a burrow if an intruder had already died inside that burrow
  
• Fixed several instances of floating foliage, and foliage being where it shouldn't be
  
• Added fix for no cursor to faction select screen
  
• Isle-V3 map: removed static screen effects from large docks area
  
• Isle-V3 map: fixed a few spots where characters failed to start swimming when in deep water
  
• Isle-V3 map: raised riverbanks around central ravine to fix players swimming on land
  
• Isle-V3 map: fixed ocean ambience spawning too high
  
• Isle-V3 map: Fixed gaps in the landscape
  

General


• Added the ability of Utah Juveniles to invade burrows
  
• Increased movement speed for Giga hatchling
  
• Increased buoyancy of juvenile & hatchling Utahraptor
  
• Increased adult Dilophosaurus trot and run turn rates
  
• Increased camera distance range for adult and juvenile Dilo
  
• Increased bite forces of juveniles across the board to be more consistent with their recent weight changes
  
• Increased adult T.Rex trotting turn rate
  
• Juvenile / subadult T.Rex and Giga now starve faster to make reaching adulthood more challenging
  
• Reverted adult Dilo bleed damage back to being 50 instead of 42
  
• Updated how the Character menu grabs the weight stat, instead of showing maximum weight for the active growth stage, it should now display your current weight
  
• Updated burrow interior mesh
  
• Updated animation blend for Galli running kick so it's more noticeable
  
• Reduced stamina drain for hatchling Dryo and Galli
  
• Reduced firing delay on Triceratops stomp to better fit the animation
  
• Added running kick attack for juvenile Gallimimus, buffed juvenile Galli kick radius and damage
  
• Increased bite damage for the following juveniles: Utah, Trike, Diablo, Pachy
  
• Decreased weight mass & bite damage for adult and juvenile Dryosaurus
  
• Increased turning rotation speed for Pachy and Maiasaura
  
• Increased camera distance ranges for juvenile & adult Maiasaura
  
• Disabled IK while resting
  
• Tweaked time of day readout position on Character screen
  
• Reduced size of AI Avaceratops gore pile to make it less enticing to large predators
  
• Reduced sprint turning speed for Giganotosaurus, increased its trot turning speed
  
• Increased sprint speed of Allosaurus & Diabloceratops
  
• Increased kick damage for Parasaurolophus
  
• Removed unnecessary delay on special attacks for Para, Trike, Galli, Shant
  
• Camarasaurus stomp damage is now higher than its tail whip damage instead of being identical
  
• Updated the design of the HUD nest icon
  
  

  Bug Fixes

  
  
• Duplicated the fix for missing cursor on MOTD for the character screen
  
• Fixed loop points for young Pachycephalosaurus eat/drink animations
  
• Fixed hatchling Pachy stiffening up when calling in idle state
  
• Fixed hatchling Giganotosaurus not vocalizing except on broadcast command
  
• Fixed being able to place nests while entering or exiting burrows
  
• Fixed adult Gallimimus being able to slide on primary attack
  
• Fixed hatchling Dryosaurus and Gallimimus jumping way too high
  
• Fixed an issue where the dawn music cue could randomly loop forever
  
• Fixed overlong fire delay on Parasaurolophus kick attack
  
• Fixed networking and movement being laggy after being teleported
  
  

  Isle V3

  
  
• Fixed numerous holes and stuck spots around the island
  
• Fixed being able to walk underwater in a few areas
  
• Fixed another misaligned physics volume
  
• Fixed a couple of large areas that were not covered by edible foliage spawners
  
• Fixed grass and bushes growing underwater in a bunch of areas
  
• Fixed a stuck spot at the water treatment area
  
• Fixed floating objects in Docks area
  
• Fixed landscape tile bounds in a couple of areas
  
• Added more waterfall meshes to several spots along the mountain rivers
  
• Added more accurate navigation volumes around water sources to prevent AI spawning or running into them and dying
  
• Added more water sources around the map's northern and southern edges
  
• Added more ways in and out of large ravines
  
• Added nav modifiers around the docks to stop AI spawning inside
  
• Deepened several large rivers, swamps and nearly all lakes to support bigger swimmers
  
• Re-aligned a few physics volumes to better fit their water sources
  
• Replaced radio tower's man-made pond with natural water pools
  
• Smoothed out gaps between a number of landscape tiles
  
• Cleared trees from a few of the taller hilltops to give a better view of the surroundings
  
• Updated large docks area, less concrete- more sand.
  
• Finished several un-finished cliffs
  
• Removed water trickle noise from swamp ambience, was a bit weird hearing that on land.
  
• Testing a new methodology for looping ambient sound splines; now repositions a single sound source at closest point to the player
  
• Updated ocean surf ambience
  
• Reduced depth of a few river splines
  
• Regenerated landscape proxy meshes for a lot of map tiles
  
• Moved more rivers into the persistent level instead of having them intersecting between tiles
  
• Removed collision on hanging electrical wires
  
• Reduced volume of randomized bird calls
  

General


• Increased adult Dilo bite damage from 100 to 150
  
• Reduced bleed damage for adult Dilo from 50 to 42
  
• Reduced bleed damage for juvenile Dilo from 30 to 20
  
• Rebalanced weight of Survival juveniles to be more reflective of their actual size, and reduced the jump in weight between growth stages.
  
• Reduced volume of AI Avaceratops calls
  
• Updated swim animations for Camarasaurus, increased Camara buoyancy
  
• Reduced play-rate of Suchomimus crouch animations as a temporary fix until new ones are made
  
• Can no longer create or dig a burrow with a broken leg
  
• Entering a burrow has a shorter hold timer than before.
  
• Reverted sprinting FOV adjustments, caused camera shaking
  
• Characters align properly when entering/exiting burrows
  
• Dryosaurus hatchlings can now enter burrows
  
  

  Fixed

  
  
• Fixed growth not restarting after exiting a burrow
  
• Fixed and improved game tip functionality
  
• Fixed mouse cursor missing from MOTD
  
• Fixed AI Avaceratops not dropping a corpse in adult stage
  

General


• Enabled the first version of the new burrowing feature for dryo, taco
  
• Added Avaceratops AI to Thenyaw and Isle V3
  
• Added AI velociraptors to Isle V3
  
• Disabling HUD now hides group name tags, nest icons
  
• Added new game setting "Disable Local Head Tracking"
  
• Added slight movement pause to Pachy & Cerato landing animations to reduce sliding
  
• Added effects to burrowing animations
  
• Added new full-body vocalizations for adult Carnotaurus
  
• Added nesting animation to subadult rex
  
• Added new full-body bite animation for Carnotaurus
  
• Increased speed that Sucho replenishes water when drinking
  
• Adjustment to juvenile Sucho bite animation
  
• Clamped ambient zone volume ranges
  
• Reduced volume of swamp background sounds
  
• Added lods and collision to further rock assets
  
• Optimizations to jungle rock texture resources.
  
• Minor tweaks to how FOV zooming works while trotting/sprinting
  
• Added new soundtrack pieces to day phases and growth stages
  
• Imported weather & location-based music tracks for later use
  
• Added support for the nest UI to respond to the ESC key to go back/exit
  
• Added new animation sets for juvenile and subadult T.Rex with full-body vocalizations
  
• Updated & enhanced T.Rex life cycle sounds
  
• Imported new dryosaurus burrowing animations
  
• Enabled burrowing for dryosaurus survival juvenile and adult
  
• Adjustments to swimming for Austroraptor and Baryonyx
  
• Nest invites now show a different icon to group invites and have a gold tint
  
• Complete animation overhaul for Camarasaurus with new full-body vocals
  
  

  Bug Fixes

  
  
• Fixed food values being lower than corpse values for juvenile Carno, Cerato, Maia, Pachy & Utahraptor
  
• Fixed character's growing resetting their nests ownership
  
• Fixed juvenile Sucho having way worse stamina recovery than its adult form
  
• Fixed bleeding ratios being backwards for adult Maia & Sucho
  
• Fixed non-adult Ceratosaurs still using their old bite animation
  
• Fixed Suchomimus using old sandbox hunger values
  
• Possible fix for Cerato becoming stuck in falling state in some cases
  
• Corrected rex detail color from appearing as a body color option for carnivores
  
  

  Balance

  
  
• Improved bleed resistance for adult Triceratops
  
• Increased ragdoll food values for Diablo, Maia & Trike
  
• Reduced hunger decay for rex and giganotosaurus
  
• Adult Spino, Giga and Rex can now eat "large" gore piles
  
• Fixed resting heal rate for Parasaurolophus being the same as its idle healing
  
• Fixed adult Utahraptor, juvenile Dilo / Sucho instantly losing their skin on death
  
• Reduced fall damage threshold for Carnotaurus
  
• Adjusted fall damage thresholds for jumping dinosaurs to be more realistic
  
• Reduced bite damage for Giga to 700
  
• Slight increase to adult Rex turn hardness
  
• Increased weight mass of juvenile Suchomimus
  
• Minor increase to Sucho swimming speed
  
• Increased swimming buoyancy slightly for Suchomimus
  
• Reduced swimming buoyancy slightly for Pachycephalosaurus
  
• Increased trotting and sprint speeds for Camarasaurus
  
• Increased pachy run speed by 1.2x
  
• Increased water consumption amount for pachy's drink
  
• Fixed Camara using IK while swimming
  
• Lowered Camara direct attack damage
  
  

  Thenyaw Island

  
  
• Placed "jungle trees" around main swamp area & some lowland river / pond areas
  
• Added larger open areas between sections of forest
  
• Cleared areas of forest that were growing through rock formations and POIs
  
• New red glowing light added to radio tower to help guide players
  

General


• Lowered bite attack damage for subadult Giganotosaurus
  
• Increased health/mass to 3600 for Suchomimus
  
• Increased swim speed for Suchomimus, halved Sucho stamina drain from swimming
  
• Increased ambush speed modifier for Suchomimus from 1.2x to 1.27x
  
• Significantly reduced hunger decay rate for Ceratosaurus
  
• Fixed over-exaggerated bite animation on Ceratosaurus
  
  

  Graphics

  
  
• Overhauled animation set for Suchomimus featuring new full-body vocalizations
  
• Updated swim animations for Pachycephalosaurus
  
• Updated detail color pattern mask & palette for Tyrannosaurus
  
• Updated skin pattern mask for Utahraptor
  
• Updates to rock textures and shading
  
  

  User Interface

  
  
• Removed more outdated / deprecated dinosaur classes from the selection list
  
• Updated gameplay settings menu with more options
  
• Rebinding action inputs now ignores any combination prefixes (Shift, Alt, Ctrl, Cmd)
  
• Changed default binding for ToggleHUD to F10
  
• Added monitor off/on 2D sounds when toggling HUD
  
  

  Bug Fixes

  
  
• Rolled back an engine setting change that degraded performance
  
• Fixed an issue where adult Allosaurus could become frozen when resting
  
• Fixed being able to move during resting transition as Parasaurolophus
  
• Fixed juvenile & hatchling Para using adult effects for sit / stand
  
• Fixed missing nesting animations for Cerato & Sucho
  
• Fixed Cerato juv having an overbite
  

General


• Wiped database due to several growth changes
  
• Old / deprecated dinosaur classes are no longer available on the class select screen
  
• Adjusted upper body blend on Diablo so its attack is better seen when in motion
  
• Added preview locations to Cerato, Giga, Pachy & Sucho skin creators
  
• Adjustments to TinyVocal attenuation, disabled logarithmic filtering on Oro & Psittaco calls
  
• Removed several unused keybinds
  
  

  Balance

  
  
• We have updated the bleed mechanic so that bleeding will now only be mitigated by resting, allowing you to recover from a deadly wound if you are out of combat. When not resting, you will now die of blood loss if you continue moving around while bleeding.
  
• Improved herbivore bleed resistance across the board to improve chances of survival.
  
• Increased impact damage for Diabloceratops (bleed damage unchanged)
  
• Increased Galli's weight mass to properly reflect its size
  
• Increased Parasaurolophus speed so it can outpace a default run Allosaur
  
• Decreased the stamina drain on Maiasaura so it doesn't have asthma
  
• Adjusted T.Rex stamina to now drain faster
  
• Shortened ambush duration for T.Rex due to its recent speed increase
  
• Increased stats for Giganotosaurus across the board, offsetting his subadult's power spike compared to T.rex, and bringing it back in line at adult.
  
• Reduced bite damages for Allosaurus, Carnotaurus, Dilophosaurus
  
• Increased damage for Utahraptor and Suchomimus bites
  
  

  Bug Fixes

  
  
• Fixed dismiss game tip (default F9) not showing initially
  
• Fixed subadult Giganotosaurus skins not being applied correctly
  
• Fixed the resting animation not looping for Pachycephalosaurus
  
• Re-synced Suchomimus movement notifies to better fit its new animations
  
• Fixed hatchling & juvenile versions of Allo and Cerato playing adult effects on sit / stand
  
• Re-enabled engine option "FinishCurrentFrame" to see if it helps performance