Sons of the Forest Patch 12: Pick Axe, Solafite, ??? Item, and More!

Sorry for the delay on Sons of the Forest Patch 12, which dropped on Friday, September 29!

Patch 12 includes a new cave that contains a pick axe to be used to mine a new mineral: Solafite! The mineral can be use in a new buildable structure. There’s a new ??? item, AI improvements on cannibals (they can ask for help now!), and new emotes and reactions to Virginia and Kelvin.

Full patch notes for Sons of the Forest Patch 12

Features

Added pick axe
You can now mine the Solafite mineral found in caves
Added new cave
Added second ??? item
Added 2 new findable book items allowing you to build two new structures
New upgrade system for weapons
New hanging cross, gore props and cave roots added to cave A and cave F
Added hanging skeletons to some trees in world
Added Ranged aiming sensitivity option
Cannibal leaders or village guards once alerted to player can now call for quick backup from others in area
Implemented more Kelvin emotes : Nod, Thumbs up, Confused, Shake Head, Hit Head, No, Happy, Sad (If player quickly nods at Kelvin he will nod back)
Implemented more Virginia emote actions : Laugh, Nod, Shake Head, Happy, Confused, No, Sad

Improvements

Animal heads now can be hit with golf putter
Virginia will now laugh if she sees an animal hit a spring trap or a full health Kelvin get hit with a small rock
Kelvin will now react to animal heads
Improved look of volumetric light from sun and work lights
You can now carry up to 3 Turtle Shells
Spawn location for skinned animal heads will now be at head of the body
Burning player, torch, molotov and spreading fire now react to sprinklers
Improved sprinkler performance in bunkers
Sprinklers will clean blood off player and held weapons
Improved positioning of free wires extremities when placing on beams and pillars
Electric wires can now be placed on three quarter high pillars
Moved ramps placement arrow up slightly so that it is easier to see when targeting from the bottom of the ramp
Player no longer slides when standing on ramps
Placing planks on ramps is now easier to target when standing close to it
Physics collider cleanup and optimization on a few Items
Various environment fixes
Food Bunker tree base collisions synced in multiplayer so AI interact with them
Lighting transition improved in food bunker water
Improvements to driftwood physics
Some optimizations to characters and AI update
Kelvin Finish Structure order will no longer stop after one structure, will now finish everything he can before completing order

Balance

Creepies are more resistant to bullets and have slightly increased general health
Puffies when high health won’t get dismembered
Add a 2 second hit react cooldown to lower stun lock on Puffies
Fingers and Twins now have more aggressive behavior
Reduced max late-game outside creepy count by 20%
Reduce the likelihood of creepies taking over populated villages
Spear melee stab damage reduced 15->10

Fixes

Fixed Frank sometimes trying to do revenge attack on himself after lighting himself on fire
Player can no longer be killed during any cutscenes
Fixed missing spittle in bunker entertainment
Fixed small rock not spawning when digging
Fixed some issues with Sluggy sound in cave C
Fixed light bulb getting visually culled too early
Fixed supported screw structure getting destroyed when adding a strut to a beam
Fixed sharpening a defensive wall log playing audio of player swinging his weapon
Fixed corner ramp beam on ground placement able to place against off grid structures which would typically create degenerate corner ramps
Fixed placing strut underneath leveled beam unlinking the forward support in some case
Fixed placing strut underneath leveled beam inverting the beam visually sometimes
Fixed pressing shift while placing stick or rock path leaving player in a broken state
Fixed lifting beams causing the renderer rotation to pop after lifting it
Fixed case where beams supporting a concave corner ramp beam would block placement of floors on the wrong side of the beam
Fixed case where placing a strut under a leaning beam wasn’t possible
Fixed issue when placing walls over floors that would break floor linking with its support beam
Fixed own shadow leaking slightly on wall and pillar logs
Fixed issues with grass and leaves from the fake ground covering up some items in the inventory
??? pieces will no longer respawn if the player already collected them
Added missing equip UI to wire in inventory
Fixed bug where other players would stash items when networked player triggered Puffton cutscene
Fixed missing knife in tree crash cutscene
Fix for molotov smoke alpha clipping
Fixed Armsy sometimes not setting off traps
Fixed Greg’s carried effigy type not matching on clients
Fixed floating spittle sometimes appearing on destroyed huts
Fixed bullets fired from ultra close range sometimes going through the enemy
Fixed issue with player block and parry where hits got through during animation transitions
Fixed player held severed head scare not working properly when done by clients

Audio

Updated fire events for built fires and standing fires
Retimed skinning animals sounds
Tuned audio on burning stick and molotov events
Added new physics interaction sfx object for small batteries
Changed a sluggy event to be 3d
Changed distance settings on sluggy emerges event
Turned down vista sting a little
Added some sounds for skeletons and falling rocks

Sons of the Forest Patch 11

Features

Added new large battery item and revised the electricity system, which now requires them to power lights and electric fences at night. We also added limits to how many objects individual batteries and panels can power before they overload the grid
Solar panels can now be placed freely without relying on a support structure and can be connected to power grids with wires
Added new spear throwing cannibal type Eddy
Added new effigy placing cannibal type Greg
Added new cave A extension area
Added new ? item to new cave A extension
New cutscene added to the food bunker
Added some new hanging gore props
Fires will now be put out by sprinklers
Added new concave corner ramp placement option

Improvements

Babies can now be exploded into gibs
There are now some cannibal nomad families lead by Frank the fire cannibal starting after 8-12 days
Hanging skeletons and new hanging gore added to fisherman huts
Corner beams now contribute to beams structural resistance, making it less likely to break easily if only corner ramps are there
Beams can now be placed leaning on another leaning beam, allows stacking one level of leaning beam
Corner ramps no longer use a full plank for each placement, placing full planks will split it to a smaller size when appropriate and drop a pickup matching the rest of the quarter log planks
Placing free wires on a solar panel now forces the position of the wire to the connector position on the model
Free wires connected to beams & pillars now use a wire model instead of a zip-tie for the supporting ring visual
Burning living cannibals will now update the burn amount on their material
Made volumetric fog more visible in bunkers
Improved bunker food and bunker residential lighting
Puffy increase walk speed by 20% and attack speed by 10%
Cave C entrance groups reworked to have less active objects above ground
Adjusted near plane on Flashlight Mod to prevent cutout shape when reloading shotgun with flashlight attachment
Updated Holosprings logo
Added new tutorials for using electricity

Fixes

Fixed a bug where the slingshot would not animate when cancelling a shot
Fixed visual glitch in the loading screen when loading in a saved game
Fixed Holosprings video keeps playing in single player while game is paused
Changed Holosprings video looping behavior so that it doesn’t restart every time
Fixed holes in quarter log planks
Player cannot be knocked down when holding hang glider while in air anymore
Player being knocked down while on ground and holding the hang glider will now drop the hang glider
Fixed various multiplayer synchronization issues with the Cave B and Cave C Sluggies
In multiplayer, if any player in the game has high sentiment with Virginia, the Virginia gold room variant cutscene will be playing for all, in order to enforce proper multiplayer sync when entering the final boss fight
Fixed cave shark not spawning on low animal setting
In rare case of actors found in invalid position on load, they will be removed or restored to a fixed position (for Kelvin and Virginia)
End boss is now forced to stay above terrain to avoid possible bug falling under terrain
Fixed issue where cannibals hitting some village structures wouldn’t play audio
Clients will now hear dropped ragdoll impact audio
Fixed heavy cannibal always transitioning to walk after various auto-jumps. Fixed sometimes double taunting when entering combat.
Fixed case where beam collapse could propagate through pillars instead of stopping at it
Fixed missing sound when placing struts
Fixed case that could break corner ramps
Fixed corner ramp placement arrow not positioned correctly
Fixed corner ramp not placeable if on of the beam was supported by a leaning beam on the forward end
Fixed pillars not placeable above beams that are supporting a corner ramp
Fixed damaged corner ramps not visually distorting
Fixed pillars added to the top of a wall in a specific order could prevent placing ramps above

Audio

Added Electrical Grid Sounds
Frank on Fire sound improvement
Added new place light sound
End boss battle music will now stop while player is dead

Sons of the Forest Patch 10

Features

Added Holosprings introduction video to screening room of bunker entertainment
Reworked gold room cutscene adding new animations, effects, audio and music
New helicopter flyover moment added (leaving bunker residential)
You can now build corner ramps, enabling ramps (or roofs) to be joined when placed at a 90° angle
You can now build stone floors
You can now build wooden railings
Added large log holder
Added placeable decorative deer hide rug
Added subtitles which can be toggled from the gameplay menu
Changed the timed explosive item into a sticky bomb and modified its visuals
New multiplayer cheat allow option – will block clients from using Console when off – hosts won’t be blocked from using Console. The option will be saved along with the other game setup settings. Accessible via multiplayer player menu
Added electric particle and lighting effect when electric fence is triggered
Added some new emotes for Kelvin
Added a new aggressive cannibal enemy type ‘Frank’ who pours vodka on himself and sets himself on fire when near the player
Cannibals will now sometimes carry fire torches
Increased variety of enemy raids
Some villages will now have cannibals chosen as gold mask leaders, and other cannibals will now sometimes follow them

Improvements

Destroying structures is now far less punishing, if supported structures have other valid supports still standing it will no longer get destroyed and fallback to the other supports instead
Placing stairs or ramps between a wall and a beam no longer requires the beam to cover the full height of the wall, which allows for a variety of slopes
Significantly improved construction processing cost when joining a multiplayer game with a large amount of structures to help clients getting disconnected sometimes
Creepies on fire will now more often rush and attack players
Increased likelihood and range of cannibal distant yell, mainly at night
Raised the player camera higher off the ground when falling from a stake, so the camera is less likely to clip through snow
Adjusted player’s final death animation so hands don’t clip through the ground
Polish and improvements on Large Female locomotion animations
Prevented creepies instantly appearing after loading game at night
Prevented creepies from taking over village on load when player is in village
Player can now dismember the larger blue Puffies after they die
AI pooling improvements and optimizations
Converted some colliders to primitive colliders to improve performance
Automatically disable and hide fog options when not supported by GPU
Optimized spawn pool logic to remove unnecessary CPU cost
Name card pickups in the food bunker no longer sound like coins when dropped
Added a north direction to the GPS tracker screen
Player no longer falls all the way to the bottom of the water when knocked back. The knockback is now ended once the player enters the water
Various improvements to story item pickup visuals
Various localization improvements
Entertainment bunkers curved stairs collisions updated to be smoother to walk on
Mountain cliff material adjusted to use moss and have more gradual transition to rock texture, and mesh modified to resolve some harsh geometry
FX optimization for standing fire and skull lamps
Cleaned up some harsh terrain
Some layout cleanup on standing fire sticks and wrap
Removed particle controller component from wall torch particles ( improved performance in saves with hundreds of wall torches )

Fixes

Fixed water shader causing crashing on some AMD GPUs
Fixed issue with structures sometimes not linking together after saving and loading
Fixed an issue where enemies could fall from the sky
Fixed bug that allowed placing pot on standing fire and sanitized saves with fires that have pots
Fixed issue where player would get into a bad state after interacting with a standing fire while holding a pot
Setup loader 3d audio blocker system to prevent audio playing from world during loading screens
Fix for cooking pot being destroyed in MP games when the fire burns out or is destroyed
Fixed issues with the 3d printer and the client not getting correctly updated when loading into a save game
Fixed issue where player could get stuck if they opened their chat window right after bringing up quick select
Fix for player getting into a bad state if they block with a weapon at the same time as pressing a hotkey to equip another item that does not support blocking
Fixed issue when adding strut under a leaning beam supported by a pillar on the forward end
Fixed some cases where ramp placement didn’t work properly
Fixed taking pot on fire after all sticks are burnt out not working properly
Fixed defensive wall spike orientation on the spawned pickup when collapsed
Fixed case with an error when destroying combined LOD walls
Fixed combined LOD floor not working as expected in old saves with elements in wrong order
Fixed skewed floor getting turned into combined LOD version which looks wrong
Fixed wall spinning issue in specific context
Fixed leaning beam supporting a forward pillar allowing to lift it with a strut
Fixed place strut animation perfect finish system no longer working with LOD version
Fixed gaps in floor of “Lean to” screw structure
Fixed dismantling stone wall that was switched to combined LOD
Fixed opening grab bag on a fire that’s about to completely burn out allowing player to relight the stick
Fixed own shadow visible on some logs placed in constructions
Fixed merging super structures not registering it for all linked structures when merged, solves some issues with interior space warmth and path finding not calculated correctly after combining separate super structures
Fixed side ramps not preventing the dismantling of walls
Fixed some issues with repairing structures in multiplayer
Fixed top section of wall being remove-able while it is supporting leaned beams
Fixed super structure integration calculation tolerance being overly strict
Fixed merging super structures which have a quarter log height offset instead of full height
Fixed issue causing some construction placements to fail if starting a game as multiplayer host after going back in game from title screen
Fixed case where placing structure on ground could cause it to become invalid
Fixed repairing grounded stone pillars or non full height stone pillars not replacing its elements at the correct positions
Fixed rope stretch script not filtering out non water triggers + fixed rope not stretching down all the way if placed too high above, it will now stretch up to its max length
Fixed stick path dismantling
Fixed Creepy Virginia idling after some electrocutions and idling too long while exploring
Fixed Armsy sometimes getting stuck in loop with taunt hitting electric fence, and long idle while exploring
Fixed issue with deer sometimes not doing their alert and move away, and increased run speed slightly
Fixed Kelvin able to pass outside of enclosed walls to get fish
Fixed issue where throwing dead bodies against collision while moving forward could launch player super far
Fixed an issue where player getting hit and dropping a body could send the body flying
Fixed gibbed creepies coming back intact after load
Fixed an issue where killing a female cannibal holding a log didn’t remove the attachment right away
Prevented eagles from stealing fish from cooking fires, which caused issues with cooking system
Fixed a bug where the flashlight would remain in an incorrect pose when hotkey switching between shotgun and rifle
Fix for the player getting into a completely broken state when trying to place a structure from the book when they have not yet retrieved their inventory after dying
Moved cave rocks, in entertainment bunker epic view room, out of work scheduler and setup prefabs with LODS, fixes them vanishing on low view distance settings
Enabled alpha clipping on newspaper cutout to resolve visible edges
Fix for ‘Stream I’ underwater rendering flickering off near large lake
Light probe proxy volume adjustments to resolve bright ceiling in entrance of luxury bunker
Fixes for some open edges on cliffs
Fixed issue with held items being able to be equipped via hotkeys when a table card is picked up
Fixed smooth snow and wetness fade in effect only applying to LOD0 construction elements, resulting in visible pop when moving back & forth and lod switches levels

Audio

Added new rock/stone drop audio events
Added season parameter to rain on metal objects for winter
Improvements to pre crash opening sequence audio
Tuned distance setting on mutant feeding events

Sons of the Forest Patch 9

Features

Radio alarm trap added
Creepy enemies can now be exploded into chunks
Held radios can now be placed
Returning creepy added to endgame
New large female cannibal type added
Added an option to the controls options page that allows the player to adjust the speed at which the inventory camera pans, tilts and pivots
Added new “batch place” input, pressing left shift (or left stick with gamepad) while placing ghosts now leaves the blueprint active so that it may be placed again without going through the book each time

Improvements

Ducks can now land on the ground and walk around in some areas, such as the golf course
Loot pouches can now be opened even if they player is full on some of the items in the bag. Items that the player is full on are dropped when cleared from the mat
Night Vision goggles and the rebreather can now be toggled if mapped to a hotkey
You can now hold ‘Take’ to equip skulls directly from the pickup
Added jumping capability to Armsy
Kelvin should now be able to find stones when player is not around
Enemies killed by player traps now count as killed by player
Traps will now cause damage to larger enemies and sometimes knock them down
Plants growing in plots can now be harvested when they are at 70% of their full grow size. The grow time of plants has not changed, only the scaling of the plant will be different with this change
Added a change so that Items can not be stored in inventory when the player does not have their backpack. They are instead immediately dropped
Added Localization on Multiplayer death respawn timer
Added Tutorial Visibility setting to options page
Added Vitals Hud Visibility setting to options page
Added Global GUI Visibility setting to options page
Improved visual transition when getting onto zipline
Set up LODS for the golf bag and putter, Grenade, Time Bomb, Molotov, Vodka Bottle, Pills, Wristwatch and Money
Adjusted the positioning of the pendulum on Hokey Pokey trap so that the end of the rope would not look disconnected at the anchor point
John2 will now properly set off traps
Radio music events are now updated with both position and rotation
Improved the positioning of the UI interaction for ropes
Climbing Ropes now stop at the surface of the water rather than go to the bottom
Scaled down the 3d printed sled a bit while it’s in the printer
Added an option to allow players to set if traps will trigger on players. This is off by default but on in hard survival. (Spring traps always trigger)
The Fly Swatter and Bone Maker traps will now do some damage to the player if they set them off
All traps have been adjusted to be able to be placed on steeper slopes to make placement less restrictive
Added dedicated server direct connection via <ip>:<game port> in the multiplayer menus. You can now connect directly to a specific server without waiting for the entire list of servers to refresh
Cooking pot lid will now properly update its cooking animation for clients
Added the ability to override the pickup audio event so that we can have the berries plucked from bushes use the correct sound
Updated LODS on the traps
Hard to select items in quick select such as herbs are now easier to select
Added the Q button to the printer UI to show people they can also cycle backwards
Added LODs to animals
Shooting dead bodies with rifle will now impart more force
Freeform placed structures such as fire or fence post placed on floors are now linked with the supporting floor. It will properly prevent dismantling of the floor as well as propagate the collapse in the event the floor gets destroyed
Reinforced fire rocks now stay in place when fire runs out of fuel, and a stick can be added to refuel it
When damaging effigies, now only the first stick gets distorted and repairing it brings it back in position
Small structure links are now synced with multiplayer clients so that restrictions can be calculated locally instead of getting their invalid actions rejected by the server when attempted (i.e. dismantling a floor supporting a chair)
Tree stump LODs added
Floating driftwood range increased and LODs added
A few more light blockers for Food Bunker (fixed light leaking in) and added Distance Activated Groups
Various environment cleanup and fixes
Bunker Entertainment spittle moved to work scheduler, missing LODs added
Bunker Entertainment sections now enabling and disabling by area
Food Bunker dining room tables and couches with collisions are now active for bosses when host is not in bunker
Cave rocks in Bunker Entertainment moved to work scheduler
Setup LODs for door planks, stick path, defensive wall spikes, stone fake pillars, stone struts, defensive walls, log and stone beam, electric wire elements, wires, wire zip ties and lightbulbs
Optimized setup for shadows in freeform elements LOD hierarchies
Added combined LOD system for walls and floors, cuts down rendering cost significantly for full walls without windows or floors without holes
Wall torch particle optimized
Cliff Rocks LOD2s optimized
Rock LOD2s optimized
Rock A LOD2 improved visually
Bunker Entertainment light blockers adjusted and added Distance Activated Groups
Changes to convert directories to zips for save games means much less files to sync to steam cloud
Set Male Puffy, Female Puffy and Heavy Heads to use primitive colliders
Defensive wall three quarter LOD improvements
Added displacement toggle to water quality setting
Improved look and usability of debug console (cheats menu)

Balance

Creepies will no longer be focused around cave entrances in late game after loading a save. They should now be distributed around a larger area
Reduced the number of creepies wandering outside in lategame

Fixes

Fixed some issues that could occur after network disconnects
Fix centering on some UI elements
Fixed bug where left hand items would disappear while using repair tool
Player no longer gets stuck when holding crossbow and picking up new items in quick succession
Hokey Pokey trap should no longer get in to a broken physics state where the pendulum would freak out and start spinning
Fixed issue that caused items to not be removed from a layout group if the item was defined as a unique item, but displayed in the layout group as a non onetoone representation
Fixed animation issues and stuck states when grabbing a rope while swimming.
Fixed incorrect scaling on one of the mushrooms in quick select
The laser sight mod pickup no longer shows the laser beam
Fix for broken sticks while crafting arrows causing mesh collider error spam
Item Hotkey UI no longer displays on items that are on the crafting mat
Fixed issue with resin volume and percent complete readouts being incorrect when loading into a game
Fixed audio issues with the 3D printer after loading into a game that had a print in progress or a completed one still on the plate
A 3D print will now resume from the visually correct height once loading in from a save game
Fixed issue with “Collected” UI notifications comping up every time a held item was stashed
Fixed batteries item clipping through the inventory mat and reanimated their shuffle
Set multiplayer lobby as non joinable if connection count is maxed out, in case someone tries to join a game while a client is timing out
While cooking, the prompts are better placed and will no longer go off the screen
Fix for the 3d printer not showing the correct readouts for clients when loading into the game
Fix for players being able to lose their equipped combat knife when they do not have their inventory and hold to equip multiple items and then stash them
Fixed a rare case where items being equipped would loose its Item Instance data if its equip sequence was canceled for some reason
Fix for client audio not working in multiplayer games when cooking directly on the fire
Clients will no longer get an extra drink after a cooking pot has been emptied
Fix for clients always seeing arrows being printed when loading into a save game that has an active print on the printer
Fix to prevent the Hokey Pokey trap from resetting but still thinking it was disarmed
Fix for not being able to drink from a pot that has clean water after it has been placed back onto a fire
The Flashlight will no longer emit light when held by other players that have run out of battery
Fix for 3d printer beeping for out of resin after the item is removed after loading a save game
Added a delay to trigger when stashing quick select to hide all the renderables rather than hiding it on destroy which shows the gimbal issue on the last frame
Fixed issue with some actions using different inputs when interacting with a structure ghost compared to when not interacting with one
Fixed serialization issue when loading into a game where a 3d printer was not actively printing anything
Fix for growing plants being able to be interacted with when they should not be
Fixed white tracker antenna in inventory
Scaled down the horsetail and aloe vera layout items on the grab bag
Fixed issue with rain not showing up in the opening crash cutscenes
Fixed issue with the player rain audio sfx playing in the opening helicopter scene
Fixed issue with non clients not getting the correct printer bed height set when loading in from a save game
Placed paper targets now save
Fix for the cooking pot lid animation and cooking audio not working when loading into a game that has a pot actively cooking on a fire
Fix for radio not syncing correctly on other players when the local player is in their inventory
Fixed issue that was causing some structures to take more damage than intended when hit with melee weapons
Fix for some cases where explosives in network game caused extra damage or didn’t cause damage
Fix for AI trying to path through wall of LeanTo.
Fix UI jumping around when attached to player (eg. speared fish)
Fix skinning prompt being delayed before showing on creepies, and fix some cases where skinning prompt didn’t show up on animals
Fixed case where dead bodies could regrow limbs when player returned to them
Fixed case where small birds would land on objects under water
Fix loading with final boss dead but before ending not showing him in dead state
Fix a case where seagulls could get into an odd animation state when landing interrupted
Fix an issue where John2 wouldn’t play a death or hit animation
Fixed placing fence on cliffs not working
Fixed fence detached placement allowing to snap towards an existing fence
Fixed placing on cliff UI not visible
Fixed quitting to title screen while looking at a ghost structure causing some issues after returning to the game
Fixed dismantling free wire preventing from dismantling supporting structure
Fixed dismantle attempts on fence wire moving the renderer
Collisions on light blockers for cave entrances removed (could block actions)
Fixed repairing floors when supporting beams are inverted
Fixed placing fire in fireplace not working as a client while in fence placement mode
Added some failsafe checks to electric wire and power grid so that it will be less likely to break in the event of a bad linking state
Fixed destroyed floors and doors not leaving behind log planks
Fixed being able to cut a pillar that is supporting a wire (both regular or a free)
Fixed being able to cut floor hole while supporting free form structure such as fire
Fixed case where window shutter wouldn’t toggle properly
Defensive wall gates no longer allow partial collapse
Placement of defensive wall gates now checks if logs are contiguous, prevents cases where weird placement of defensive walls could make broken looking gates
Fixed delay between placing first stone of a beam and the following ones
Fixed sharpened stick defense not spawning a stick when destroyed
Fixed breaking doors not spawning the correct amount of planks
Fixed case where stone pillars would use non LOD versions
Fixed case where lifting a beam with a pillar too short to level the beam wouldn’t link those structures together properly
Fixed case where damaged UI would not show up
Fixed context where dismantling logs placed on uneven terrain leaves a fake pillar
Fixed fence detached placement prompt able to overlap existing fence posts
Fixed fence detached placement blocked when trying to place on slopes in contexts where player can move to the place position
Fixed repairing beams not syncing element transform
Fixed cutting window out of wall failing at the end of the animation if wall is supporting a shutter, it now properly doesn’t show the prompt at all when there is a supported shutter
Fixed destroying stone pillars, beam or walls spawning 1 stone for complete lines instead of the amount that was required to create it
Fixed some sounds not getting synced to clients in multiplayer such as damaging structures
Fixed destroying quarter log variation pillar not yielding the corresponding item pickup
Fixed transforming single log wall into an apex by adding a shorter log not working
Fixed placement preview 3D arrow not centered when placing log on an apex
Fixed zipline controller not cleaning itself up if it gets destroyed while it has player focus, resulting in errors when pressing E afterwards
Wall log rotation is no longer affected by the seeding of the Random system and consistently uses random value for the Z rotation of the log
Fix for light leaking in maintenance bunkers on Ultra Low Shadow setting
Fix for light blockers visible in inventory view when inside maintenance bunkers hallways
Fix for default error when initializing tree wind audio
Fix for collider initialization delay
Limited max characters in multiplayer chat box and fixed auto formatting to prevent overrun
Fix for glider / knight V duplicating bugs
Fixed linked collider issue causing error spam on suitcases
Fix for logic toggling wall torch particles
Fix for underwater controller thinking it’s still in a water volume when trigger is disabled fixes underwater rendering that could happen in lava cave under certain conditions
Fix for multiplayer client stomping bunker hatch / door open state when loading in
Fix initializing time of day from server fixes seasons not switching when first connecting
Fixes for radio playback bugs in bunker entertainment
Fix for light popping when entering Luxury Bunker with flashlight held and SSR disabled in quality settings
Fixed error in thread runner causing game to lock up in credits in some cases
Cave B dead wakeup inventory bag locations fixed
Fix for Lava Streams not damaging players
Converted Math.Eplison to Mathf.Eplison fixes error on some hardware

Audio

Hitting structures with weapons will now make an impact sound
Added missing impact combinations with an event so that there is at least some sound playing for all possible material types
Updated impact sound effects for the glider as they were missing. Also added a sound for when the glider is detached from the player because they hit something
Added audio to demons burning from cross
Setup new damaged sounds for defensive walls and stone structures
Added golf cart Impact audio events
Tweaked speeds of golf cart ‘traction’ audio smoothing
Fixed some network audio bugs with golf cart
Radio panning improvement
Tuned distances on Armsy VO and Footsteps
Added 3d printed GPS case to mouse over and pickup events
Added audio event for wood structures being destroyed
General ambient audio mix improvements
Added Defensive Wall Gate open and close events
In Game mixing of current audio squirrel footsteps, player footsteps on leaves, berry pluck
Fixed missing audio when placing reinforcement rocks

Sons of the Forest Patch 8

Features

New found footage video added
Hokey Pokey trap added
Electric fences
Freeform electric wire placement added
You can now carry and play radios
GPS Locators can now be 3d printed and crafted in the inventory
Golf cart lights added
Golf cart can now seat up to 4 players in multiplayer
Added reduced ammo difficulty level option
Added returning creepy enemy, will appear after endgame
Added new vocal announcements to some bunkers
Virginia and Kelvin can now swim if they end up in deep enough water

Balance

There will now be less frequent enemy raids depending on how many regulars or creepies you have killed, this amount will increase over the days unless you kill more enemies
Defensive walls can now take 4 times as much damage
Reduced health on the special glowing puffies

Improvements

Animal heads can now be shaken when held
Angry moose now sometimes kick a nearby player
Fixed some bugs that could cause too many or too few enemy search parties on loading or restarting a game
Fixed various save/load and syncing issues for endgame boss cutscenes and battles
Fixed issue where Ai actors couldn’t see a player sitting in a golf cart
Improved getting in and out of golf cart animations
Kelvin will visually refuse an order that requires trees if none are nearby
Turtles can now be electrocuted
Fixed turtle eggs not spawning for multiplayer clients
Rabbit footsteps sound different in snow now
Improved putter hitting golf ball
Various asset memory optimizations
Various UI, pickup and audio optimizations
Blueberry bush berries now deform with bush
Ocean patch optimization
Various environment layout fixes
Basalt rocks added to caves merged collision meshes
Moss LOD ranges optimized
Optimized LOD2 for cliffs
LOD groups optimized
Starfish LODs added and group assignment changed
Stream LOD ranges optimized
Bunker and Cave entrances optimized
Small rock pickup optimized
Added missing LODs to some legacy rocks
LODs setup for KnightV, hang glider, and golf cart
LODs setup for Lakes
Lake audio emitters optimized
Spruce tree meshes optimized
Seaweed Dry Cluster LOD2 optimized
Optimized Berry meshes
Fix for some waterfall particles that were always on
World collisions optimized, reduced number of active colliders
Rocks and stones now have collision in the log sled
Added play visual for action camera
Fixed faked GI slipping over surfaces when rotating the camera
Improved mask maps for snow and wetness
Optimized fallen log LODs
Optimized lily pads
Moved dead tacti with action camera in bunker entertainment to easier to see position
Dead stumps and rock billboards now draw further
Added LODs to stick and log storage, log windows, fences
Energy drink item now uses a low level of detail when on shelves or a pickup
Optimized the in world stick pickup
Increased delay before boss cutscene
Added countdown timer to back of gold room
Setup streaming versions of the beached yachts to optimize memory usage
Removed texture streaming on golf cart logo
Window shutters are now animated when closing or opening
It is now possible to place a beam on the forward end between 2 beams supported by struts
Added Idle motion to Golf Cart driver and passenger so they aren’t static
Rifle and other weapons no longer behave strangely during player hit react animation
New idles for holding trophy heads
Knight V now leans with player correctly when viewed in third person multiplayer
Improved server browser filtering user experience
Added server browser support for search by IP address in the server name search bar
Added server browser filters: “not empty”, “public”
Added ping to the server browser entries
Added filters reset button to server browser
Dedicated servers played recently will be refreshed first to improve responsiveness
Dedicated servers on which you have a save will now be sorted first in list
Improved server browser performance
Improved server browser refreshing in bad networking conditions
Server browser gamepad navigation fixes
Dedicated servers won’t be detected as “game running” anymore by steam launcher, and game can now be started from steam launcher on the same machine as the dedicated server
Added non verbose logging mode, which is now the default mode. Verbose logging mode can be forced by using the -verboseLogging command line argument (see dedicated server guide)
Dedicated servers will now immediately save before shutdown to avoid data loss
Updated dedicated server guide: Dedicated Server Guide

Fixes

Fix for player drinking from a pot when they are holding a valid container to fill up
Fixed issue where some items in the grab bag were hard to select due to the raycast blocker overlapping some items
Set deer head in the grab bag to not be convex so that it does not overlap the duck head collision
Fixed being able to add items to the cooking pot while its cooking clean water
Fix for cooking pot lid popping off for clients every time someone drinks or refills from the pot
Fixed issue with storage LODs not activating until the player is near them and then moves away
If a GPS locator is trying to be added but does not have icon data, initialize default data
Turtle shells are now properly dropped when skinned if the players inventory already has a shell
Fixed pause menu being accessible during boss cutscene
Prevented escape prompt from showing up early during get to the chopper cutscene
Fix for Screen Space reflection not turning back on after turning it off/on
Fixed sled hit react animation
Fixed bug with Crossbow reload and idle animation
Fixed some cases of cannibals prematurely dying while burning, and they now won’t catch fire from blocked torch hit
Fixed player climbing cannibal lookout tower rope not being aligned with rope on some towers
Fixed hanging skeletons on large destroyed huts reappearing in air
Fixed multiple players being able to pickup the same dead body at same time, which could lead to several issues
Fixed some visual issues on Puffies carried by other players
Fixed wall not accounted for as a valid support when counting unsupported beams, it now provides the same benefit as having pillars supporting each end of the beam
Fixed case where destroying struts was not properly propagating the collapse to its supported beam
Fixed cutting pillar into a defensive wall spike not checking if it is supporting a SCREW structure, which would destroy it when applied
Fixed selecting terrain conforming outlines breaking placement alignment for non conforming outlines selected afterwards
Fixed missing snap point to place full log or stone pillars underneath second story beams
Fixed dirt of planter furniture not affected by snow and wetness occlusion
Fixed several issues with dismantling beams that could cause issues
Moved up last line of Barb note to not overlap thumb
Fixed an issue where dedicated server couldn’t be joined after the computer returned from sleep mode
Fixed alpha on crosses burn demons note
Fixed spreading phlox rendering 2 times

Audio

Added SFX when placing electric wires and solar panels
Added frog hop audio event
Rifle audio distance tuned
Flare audio distance tuned
Reduced shrub hit sound level when driving a golf cart
Fixed noticeable clifftop surf audio turning on and off abruptly
Made cave entrance audio have random start times so they’re unlikely to phase

Sons of the Forest Patch 7

Features

New end boss battle and cutscene
Dedicated servers
Drivable golf carts
Rifle
Decorative frogs
Animal head trophies
Stone doorways, struts, windows and pillar detached placement
New stone holder structure
Window shutters
Updated environment on East side of the map with more streams, waterfalls, lakes, ponds, cannibal villages, rope bridges and more
Some new story note pickups added
Dirty/clean water system added

Improvements

Stones now apply damage to things when thrown
You can now attach stones or any length of log to ziplines rather than just full logs
A held relocated structure is now thrown if the player opens their inventory
Added new cat food visual
Wall shelves can now store cooking pots
Kelvin can now finish building stone fireplaces
Improved look of burning sticks material
Improved look of boiling water
Improved performance of trees in winter
Improved stone/rock text localization
Cannibal winter clothes now burn when the bodies are burned
“Collected” and “added to backpack” text when picking up items is now localized
Added LOD support so that items in storage holders will disable when far away
Fixed issue with armor pieces on shelves having expensive scaled mesh colliders
Adjusted some duck landing spots on water that were over land
Repairing floors no longer re-orders its planks
Disassembling a Custom Effigy now takes the limb you are targeting instead of the last limb added
It should now be easier to place furniture in crowded areas
Improved player on fire visuals
Added an idle variation to ducks and increased their drinking and eating rate when on lakes
Added new stone building tutorials to book
Added some small cannibal camps to cave D
Light bulbs can now be used from the grab bag and can be added to shelves
Player can no longer perform interactions when aiming their weapon
Player can no longer open their inventory right at the same time that they trigger a hatch or security door interaction
Fish on spears will now fall off when the spear is put away or thrown
Set armor racks to only allow a single user to interact with them at a time
Added some hot springs to some mountain areas
Dismemberment blood splat optimized
Visual fixes for cave entrances : shimmering density, seeing through entrance from distance
Improved lava impact visual
Setup stone beam & pillar electric wire elements
Pillar detached placement now works with any combination of log quarters or stones

Balance

Drinking dirty water will now cause a small amount of health damage, boil water or collect in rain collector for clean water
Added custom game setting to allow players to toggle the pausing of the world sim when in inventory
Pausing in inventory now defaults to false in hard survival
Demon boss reduced health and damage it delivers. Some attacks have longer cooldown and increased it’s damage against structures
Added additional ammo and health pickups to corridor before gold room
Added rifle ammo chance to ammo cases
Doubled strength of stone structures
Gold Armor now reduces incoming non-demonic damage by 30%

Fixes

Fixed Knight V’s and gliders vanishing in some save games
Improved and fixed most cases of artifacts caused by having too many built lights
Improved weather occlusion and added a quality option that can be turned up if needed to fix issues of occlusion visually breaking
Fix demon boss in overworld rescaling during some attack animations
Fix for idle heavy male cannibal audio being audible from far away
Removed deprecated option to place wire on standing stick
Fixed pillars placed at the corner of two connected stone beams shifting if a stone is removed from one of those beams
Fixed incomplete stone beams allowing removal of sibling beams supporting a pillar
Fixed dismantling first stone from a complete stone beam not cleaning up links to supported structures until the last stone was removed
Fixed stone fake pillars remaining on when disassembling a grounded stone Beam in a specific order
Fixed stones allowed to be added to quarter log pillars
Fixed using a repair tool on a second story leaning beam causing it to clip into the pillar its leaning against in a specific context
Tweaked stone beam visual so lightbulb fits under it
Fixed placing a strut underneath a tarp causing the tarp to collapse
Fixed dismantling and replacing ramps resulting in broken weather occlusion for those tiles until game was reloaded
Improved weather occlusion inside of the beached yachts
Fixed being able to remove a pillar supporting a strutted beam if there was a linked beam with a strut on the other end
Fixed cut pillar calculations sometimes preventing cutting a half log high pillar into a quarter log high pillar
Fixed invalid linking issue when adding a pillar bellow a beam that connects a pillar to a wall
Fixed various small building issues with struts and beams
Fixed being allowed to cut pillars that are supporting furniture
Skinned animals now have head removed
Fix player sometimes stuck sliding on ground while in knocked down state
Fix “Take Item” Kelvin order causing player to try to equip previous item before opening grab bag
Fixed placing a beam between two pillars with a full wall underneath not linking that beam with those pillars properly, which resulted in a beam impossible to dismantle while it has sibling beams linked to it
Fixed half log spawned when cutting window sometimes staying stuck in the wall
Fixed second stick placement failing when building a fire in a stone fireplace
Fixed error spam when placing a leaning beam on beams supported by a wall in some context which would prevent the beam placement
Fixed stone fireplaces getting destroyed too easily
Fixed struts broken off of a structure not spawning a pickup
Fixed picking up a held item while holding multiple stones causing player to only drop one stone pick up
Fixed error spam on multiplayer client side any time a trigger touched a log pickup
Fixed placing door not orienting it as the inside towards the player consistently
Fixed stone structures not affected visually by snow and wetness occlusion volumes
Fixed Defensive Wall Gate handles changing orientation when repaired
Fixed cooking pots not always having the correct stew after save load
Fixed adding the the first item to a storage holder being difficult in some cases
Fixed issues with the cooking pot loosing its recipe in certain situations
Fixed issue in multiplayer where the cooking pots current volume on the fire was not being updated when another player takes liquid from it
Fixed pots with stew turning into water when moved from one fire to another
Fix for erroring when trying to pickup any item that is a volume container but does not have a recipe
Fix for empty cooking pots getting destroyed when a campfire burns out completely
Fixed issue where dumping out the flask or cooking pot would also dump out the other if the other had been equipped before going into the inventory
Fixed issue with shelves where some spots on shelves would not save properly
Fixed standing fire UI interaction positioned too high
Fix for getting into a broken state if the player tries to open the guide book when in inventory
Fixed issue with multiplayer clients not being able to send objects on ziplines in both directions
Fixed Kelvin sometimes able to get pickups far out of reach
Fixed ducks sometimes getting interrupted while going to lake
Fixed some activation and render distance inconsistencies on enemies and animals
Fixed bug where it was possible to skin animals or creepies through collision
In peaceful mode, villages will no longer have a chance to get covered in creepy spittle
Chair inside bunker food will no longer show up in the inventory view
Fix for having to look away from the zipline for its interaction UI to update
Filling a held pot with stew that’s on the fire will now look like the correct stew
Fix for opening inventory when the waiting for sleep interaction is active getting player into a bad state
Fix for being able to eat from pot and light fire at the same time when loading into a game that had a cooked pot on an unlit fire
Amount of stew remaining in a pot on a fire is now synced across multiplayer clients
Fix for sometimes getting into a bad state with held items when equipping previously held item at the same time as performing another action like eating
Fix for ziplines not getting destroyed when attached to trees that are not LOD 0 or other destructible world objects that are not trees
Fixed missing visuals for one of the mushroom pickups
Fix for boiling audio continuing to play if the fire that an active cooking pot is sitting on is destroyed
Fixed cooking not always taking the satisfied recipe that has the most ingredients
Fixed sporadic collision on laptops after they have been broken

Audio

Added all the missing mouseover and pickup events (Action Camera, seeds, lightbulb heads)
Updated distances on flare audio attenuation and tuned levels
Impact sound effects are now also triggered when they hit other pickups so that a pile of pickups would make sound

Sons of the Forest Patch 6

Features

Hard survival difficulty mode added
Stone pickups added to world
Buildable stone fireplace, stone walls, stone beams, and stone columns
Custom effigies
Advanced log sled can now hold logs, rocks, stones, sticks and bones

Improvements

Countdown clocks added to dining area of food and dining
Blown apart limbs added to exploded bathroom in bunker luxury
The cooking pot and flask can now be dumped out with right mouse button
Cooking pot will now be placed on the fire immediately if the player is holding the pot while interacting with the fire
If a fire is broken while the pot is cooking, the pots contents is reset back to water. The recipe is retained if the pot was done cooking when the fire is destroyed
Added some water movement to the pot when not boiling
Visual and audio improvements to steady water drip FX in caves
Improvements and fixes to Lava sound and visuals
Adding thunder sounds to lightning strikes in space city view of gold room cutscene
Rain catcher will no longer show the refill icon until there is at least enough water for one drink
The pot can now be re-added to the fire even if it has a completed recipe in it
The hotkey UI will no longer show up in quick select and grab bag menus and only be visible when in the inventory
Added loading hints for Comfort rating and Sleeping indoors vs outdoors
Added a loading hint for cooking bonuses
Fish traps now run in game time instead of real time to work better with pausing and sleeping
Fish caught in traps will no longer go rotten
Added UI for current cooking bonuses
Improved UI for cooking recipes
Added a new equip/unequip animation for shotgun that is simpler and matches the idle held pose, so blending feels smoother and less awkward
Cannibals will sometimes drag their dying friends away from the player
General optimizations to reduce AI update cost
Kelvin can now pickup stones
Kelvin can now fill the log sled with sticks, rocks, and stones
Reduced some oversaturated animal spawn areas and spread them out more
Fixed dead bodies in beach cave floating in multiplayer games when host player is not in the cave
Player effigies cause fear to cannibals based on number of body parts
Spearing multiple fish will visually stack on spear instead of all overlapping
AI are no longer blocked by defensive stick spikes, but still take damage

Balance

Sleeping outdoors will now give less rest than sleeping indoors
The amount of rest gained by the player is now modified by their current comfort rating (certain soups and clothing can affect comfort rating)
Lowered chance of meds in crates
Large Demons can now sometimes appear above ground after end game
Lumberjack juice recipe has been reworked so that it’s easier to make in peaceful games
Added hard survival to start difficulty settings
Cooking buff durations changed from 8 hours to 4 hours in game time.
Hard survival; Reduced food spawns in crates. No Item storage crate respawn on load in this game mode. Lowered fish and animal spawns. Decreased target health and stamina regen speeds while cold. Increased penalty for raw/rotten meats

Fixes

Added some missing translations for cooking
Fix for player not getting any effects from drinking the last bit of liquid from their pot or flask
GPS locators placed on standing sticks now show the selected icon and retain it after saving and loading and improved positioning of 3d model on stick
Fix for being able to interact with the cooking pot when refilling a container from the pot
Fix for the grab bag opening rather than the player eating from the pot if the player was looking at the pot the entire time it was cooking
Fixed utility page button color
Changed the stick amounts needed in book from 48 to 60 for advanced log sled
Fixed skinning on gold armor pickup
Fix for some lake volumes poking out through terrain
Fixed spelling of Protein Shake recipe
Fixed lens flare occlusion not working if blood or cold post processing was active
Fixed player getting stuck when quickly closing the grab bag after opening it on things such as storage, fires, and Virginia
Fix for perishables getting desynced on shelves when a multiplayer client removes and fake drops them
Fix for player getting into an unrecoverable state if they eat something in the inventory immediately after loading a save game
Fixed issue with screen space reflection not always disabling correctly
Various memory improvements
Fixed issues with doors and hatches getting into a desynced state for multiplayer clients in some cases
Fixed stumps not appearing outside after loading a save game inside a bunker or cave
Fixed female cannibal broken neck and head gimbal flipping in hit with Molotov cocktail reaction animation
Fixed a bug where equipping the lighter with the rope gun held looked odd
Fixed some popping on crossbow animations
Fixed Kelvin unable to pickup and drop arrows
Fix for Muddy Cannibals stay near trees action only staying near the trees by player, and sometimes triggering too often
Fixed case where audio on knight V could get stuck on
Fixed audio when cutting tree with chainsaw
Fixed navigation cutting when placing walls in ground that slopes up
The players grab bag is now closed when interacting with a fire that has gone out
After loading a save game, when drinking from a pot on a fire, the player will now receive the correct recipe stats instead of water

Audio

Added audio for the pot lid bumping around when boiling
Tuned some high max instances on ambient events and mutant footsteps
Made water splatters max distance a lot shorter and edited volume curve
New audio for Demon Boss sequence; more synced impacts and grappling sounds, and Demon Boss jump and vocals
Better pot fill with water audio
Added sound for hug in chopper leave sequence
Made Knight V on mud and water not play water splash when stopped
Added sounds of emptying cooking pot and flask
Altered gold room vista lightning audio
Fixed guitar playing audio stuck on when interrupted by crash or knockdown

Sons of the Forest Patch 5

Features

Buildable basic and advanced log sled
Tree regrowth (setting is on by default) with a 10% chance to randomly regrow when you sleep
Findable cooking pots and new advanced cooking system
Can now add tarps to log structures
2 new found footage clips added
Beached sail boats location added
79 new ponds and 34 new lakes added to map
You can now play the guitar
Added Timmy mutated arm to demon battle scene
New wearable clothing item added
New Kelvin commands added to reset traps, fill log sleds and fill drying racks with fish

Improvements

Days Survived now shows the correct readout if the player died during the final interactive cutscene by jumping into the propeller blades
Cannibals in villages will now sometimes engage in a test of strength fight with another cannibal
Cannibal fear is now affected by group size, single cannibals will have more fear, large cannibal groups will have less
Shotgun rail is now on side of gun instead of top to avoid blocking vision
Turtles will now only lay eggs on sand
Muddies will sometimes get bored with the player and run away if not angry
Added Timmy mutant arm visuals to demon boss cutscene
Lowered priority for female cannibals stealing logs
Eagles may now steal dead fish
Throwing dead bodies on spring traps now sends them flying into air
Moldy food and dead flowers added to banquet hall
Timmy will now block the exit to hell cave until after you have defeated the boss demon
Timmy’s jacket will now be ripped after demon boss battle scene
GPS Map updated with latest lakes and rivers
Dead small birds now float in water
Fix for duplicating logs in storage triggers
Knight V improved sheen on pickup
Enforced max server name length
Lobby list performance improved in preparation for an upcoming feature
Improved support for loading into large multiplayer saves and help with structures vanishing
Rotated the shotgun in the weapon case in inventory so that the mods are visible now that they are on the side
Added localized display names for Points of Interest notifications
Player no longer makes a drinking sound when refilling a container with liquid
3D Printer will once again update the resin volume readout when the printer is refilled
If an item instance module fails to deserialize on load, it will no longer stop the rest the of the players inventory from loading
Renamed bunker locations to be clearer when discovered
Improved docks draw distance
Added more tree moss/vines in areas of map
Improved bunker food lighting
Bunker luxury details added; More decorative items, vases, and more dead bodies
Added cooking pot pickup to tech apartment in bunker residential
Looking around now updates the target cut position when aiming at a log with an axe equipped (before it was only calculated when first targeted)
It is no longer possible to cut off holes in floors supporting furniture or windows from a wall that is supporting wall structures
Kelvin will now choose another tree to chop if a tree structure is placed on it
Kelvin’s order will complete with the thumbs up if there are no more Arrows/Bolts, Berries, or Radios to retrieve and drop
Kelvin will now have berries in his hand when eating them. On fishing will have fish on initial grab
Added fail-safe protection against enemies falling through world and not deactivating
Multiplayer clients will now see the proper GPS locator type on Virginia instead of default icon
Current wetness on characters now replicates to multiplayer clients
The chainsaw revved state will now be heard and seen by other players and rev will stop when knocked down
Fixed small birds flying under the water surface when flying over deep lakes
Fixed a fish bunching up issue

Fixes

Can no longer drink lava
Fixed under lava visuals
Fixed snow and wetness occlusion volumes used in specific world locations not initializing properly
Fixed a visual arm pop on player that appeared sometimes when landing from a fall or jump
Fixed Twins not always turning towards player before taunting
Fixed fingers stuck in standing idle after burning death
Fixed projectile impact FX for flesh and hard surfaces not replicating to other players in multiplayer
Fixed player sometimes being able to interact with other triggers when notepad was open, which could get player into stuck state
Fixed cannibals not staying snapped to tree edge while shimmying around the tree
Fixed bug where cannibals could take dismember damage while blocking
Fixed muddy cannibal getting angry at player if hit by a rock thrown by another muddy
Fixed some cases of cannibals getting blocked by collision at or above head
Fixed muddies having standing collision instead of hunched over
Fixed eating dead squirrels not increasing character fullness stat
Fixed some cases of far snaps for Sitting and Jumping on Rock
Fixed the cave shark sometimes being killed by creepies
Fixed multiplayer client thrown logs not breaking foliage when far away from server player
Fixed multiplayer client-thrown logs not causing a hit reaction on enemies
Fixed multiplayer clients not seeing burning effects when dead puffies are thrown onto a fire
Fixed multiplayer clients unable to put cannibals into the injured limb state and fixed some animation blending and smoothness issues in the injured state
Fixed Kelvin radios deactivating when moved far from original location, and fixed carry positioning visuals for multiplayer clients
Kelvin will no longer pickup broken radios
Fixed Kelvin when moved far away from tree target unable to find another tree to clear automatically
Kelvin Finish Structure command; Fixed some issues with counting logs needed. If he’s holding unused items they will now be dropped on ground
Fixed a case where Kelvin stood carrying a single log instead of placing it then cutting a tree
Fixed Kelvin getting stuck if the holder he was filling was removed or destroyed. Now he will drop the item and complete the order
Fixed Kelvin trying and failing to fill item holders that are far above the ground
Fixed case where a leaning beam could link a free pillar with a structure on an incompatible placement grid
Fixed context allowing to place a beam with same support on both ends that isn’t an Apex or a Wall
Fixed detached pillar placement creating degenerate pillar if it fails to find supporting ground, now properly prevents placement if there is no ground bellow (could happen when placing off a cliff for example)
Fixed one case where quickly sharpening stick posts causes the cut animation to fail for subsequent cuts
Fixed player getting stuck in carry log animation by rapidly placing and taking a log from the log holder
Fixed cutting quarters off dynamic logs sometimes hard to target
Fixed Repair Tool hitbox active while it is equipped
Fixed some wrong settings for quarter log LODs (rendering performance improvement)
Fixed Defensive Walls and DW Gates unable to be damaged by player melee hits
Fixed leaned beams sometimes accepting pillars on top of the bottom end before planks are added
Fixed cutting Defensive Wall spikes moving player too close which made subsequence cuts harder to aim
Fixed some localized entries in the configuration menus not showing properly on Windows machines set to Turkish display language
Cut down trees with axe tutorial should now only trigger the first time
Battery indicator on the NVGs should no longer disappear after performing certain actions
Fixed flickering/distortion that could appear for some players in late game saves
Increased reflection probe atlas to 4096×2048 (should fix issues where reflection probes could break/show wrong probes)
Burning Puffies should now look correct/not distort
Fix for 3D Printer not showing the correct initial amount of resin
3D Printed Sled can no longer be placed on the crafting mat

Audio

Improved player audio for other players in multiplayer
Added some Timmy voice acting to Gold Room cutscene
Made chainsaw transition to cutting sound faster
Reduced fade time on intro helicopter crash music
Made first look guitar sting 3d
Added beeps to opening helicopter crash
Improved demon boss audio
Set some various small objects in bunkers/morgue to have surfaces tagged for impact sounds and get melee impact physics
Added ragdoll impact sounds to deer and baby

Sons of the Forest Patch 4

Features

Added new ‘Action Cam’ item and first found footage tape
Added new point of interest discovery laptops
Added ability to name save games
Added kick and ban popup messages when kicked or banned from a game

Improvements

Kelvin can now carry 2 logs at a time!
Brighter night vision goggles
Added snow impact effects to snow crash cutscene
Longer Timmy fighting demon boss intro animation
High sentiment Virginia should now visit player more often
Added more spots in villages for cannibals to stand watch or sit around
Muddies are now more likely to flee when scared
Cannibals now sometimes look at each other when not fighting
Cannibals have new animation variations for running and lunging attacks making them more evasive in combat
Cannibal creepy and leaf armor will now be visually broken and knocked off when hit
Female cannibals will sometimes drink blood from village troughs or from dead animals, cheer for other family members and occasionally dance to radio music
Male cannibal will now sometimes bash dead bodies of enemies
Skinned small animals now will have skinned visuals. Specifically the rabbit, squirrel, eagle, duck, seagull, land turtle
Low health Deer and Moose will sometimes lay down and rest
Add a wetness amount per character that increases when submerged in water or cleaning in water, and reduces over time when not
Dead bodies now get washed (blood/dirt) in water
Increased Deer bleeding and increased damage caused by hitting front body
Bird flight speed increased by a small percentage
Torn silver jacket added to end mutant
Added some ducks on the golf course
Added north arrow guide to mini map
Ballistic impact effects from other players will now be visible in multiplayer
Armor is now dropped if the player does not have available space for it if it’s cycled off being worn
Grenades and bombs will now play a water explosion effect when thrown in water
Dead cultists clothing is now bloody
Added more flower wreaths on some dead cultists
Added new binder prop to security rooms
Improved some of the lighting in bunker residential
Improved armor rack LOD
Added binoculars, night vision goggles, wire and lightbulbs to quick select slots
3D Printer readouts should update more accurately now
Fallen Log E scaled down to 65% size
Some fixes for open edges on cliff above golf course
New lake added to golf course
Kelvin can now finish building shelves
Setup LOD’s for logs in storage holders
GPS map updated to include all current ponds and lakes
Removed location pins from opening cutscene laptop screen

Fixes

‘I Dream of Sushi’ achievement is once again achievable
Fix for players game hanging when switching from empty slingshot to another ranged weapon that has swappable ammo
Player should no longer get into a bad state if they are spamming a weapon hotkey while opening a door with a keycard
Animal Hide and tech mesh will now be greyed out on the grab bag when interacting with an armor rack
Removed rebinding for back action
Fixed lone life jacket floating in sky
Fixed issue where option menu could be opened at the end of loading screen
Fixed some missing player disconnected notifications
Fix for not being able to drink from deep bodies of water
Crafted spears no longer fall through cave floors
When a storage structure is destroyed and stored pickups are spawned, it is now spread over multiple frames to ease the performance overhead and create less frame stutter
Fixed issue where the left side UI notifications would stop showing up after the player has died
Trying to equip your left hand item light is now blocked when the player is in another action
Fix for collider not being enabled on dynamic pickups sometimes
Fix for pause menu continuing to add force to players on ziplines
Fixed some initialization issues causing DLSS to not be enabled by default / after reset settings
Added harsh slope limitation to block riding knight V up steep slopes
Added localization credit names and fixed font for fallback characters
Fix for player crouching while riding Knight V
Fixed being able to dismember dead cannibal without destroying armor on the limb first
Fixed big hut destruction sometimes leaving a floating corpse and standing walls with no collision
Fix for the quick select bag getting stuck in the players hands or getting stuck in a bad state if it is triggered at the exact same time as the player begins swimming
Fixed Kelvin carry radio position
Fix for clients in multiplayer sometimes seeing muddy cannibal hit reacts have standing glitch frames
Fixed muddy cannibal leaf piles sometimes not showing for multiplayer clients
Fixed multiplayer clients not seeing Kelvin carried arrows properly
Fixed multiplayer clients sometimes doing first note long animation on first interact with Kelvin
Fixed a case where clients could see and interact with a “ghost” Kelvin not at his real position
Some fixes for Virginia washing in waterfall, and will now occur at more waterfalls around the map
Virginias GPS will now retain the assigned icon when given to her
Fix for Virginia or Kelvin sometimes getting stuck in sitting animation
Fix thrown small rocks falling through ground when bouncing
Fixed silenced pistol shot being heard as regular shot by other players
Fixed case of player getting stuck in skinning action
Shovel attack will now slow down when low stamina
Fixed wrong ceiling panel in bunker entertainment
Fixed destroying defensive wall log with spike not using the right model for the spawned pickup, also solved the scaling issue
Fixed cutting defensive wall spike not working in some cases
Fixed scaling of destroyed rock reinforcement pickups
Fixed destroyed defensive wall spikes of quarter Logs not working properly
Destroying ramps a solar panel is on now spawns a pickup
Placed solar panels now have collision
Fixed a specific case where connecting Electric Wires would not work
Fixed bug causing incorrect count of light bulbs and solar panels received on pickup
Fixed case that allowed placing a Beam connecting two structures from unaligned grids, resulting in a degenerate stretched or compressed Beam
Fixed Lookout tower placement being blocked if there is a Defensive Wall underneath the overlook
Fixed One sided apex blocking placing Pillars on top of Ramps
Removed switch mode UI prompt that didn’t do anything when placing a Defensive Wall Gate
Fixed an issue that would result in multiplayer clients unable to build anything or receive construction updates from the host
Fixed case where snow & wetness occlusion as well as solar panel initialization didn’t work for tree structures
Fixed case where removing an electric wire didn’t work properly and could prevent the underlying power grid system from splitting in two and behaving as expected
Fixed case where a leaning beam snap point would be invalid (arrow in red) when it should be allowed
Fixed issue when loading a save that could prevent other features such as placing ramps from functioning properly
Fixed a case where a free pillar in middle of a grounded beam grid would cause degenerate leaning beam placements
Fixed destroying solar panel support not cascading to the solar panel
Fixed issue where drinking while holding multiple log planks could result in broken animation state
Fixed case where non log items spawned by construction system would fall through the ground
Fixed destroyed log pickups ending up with oversized collision
Fixed destroyed non log element pickups not matching physics with the visual in some cases
Fixed structure collapse applying delay between elements even if it doesn’t spawn a pickup, resulting in weird behavior when destroying the fire wood stack for example
Fixed some issues with Beams leaned down slopes from Walls, which were incorrectly displaying the lift preview prompt and placing awkwardly
Fixed issue causing some missing Beam snap points after removing a pillar supporting a beam that is also supported by a Wall
Fixed multiplayer issue where players enter a broken state if killed while starting to climb a rope
Fixed multiplayer issue where placing a stick or rock path would wrongly show up for remote players while placing it, which could lead to game breaking issues
Fixed multiplayer issue with physics doors that could prevent clients from locking it if it was stuck open on host side
Fixed players able to remove chairs and benches from under seated AI or remote players
Fixed destroyed defensive walls built with non-full Logs reverting to unsharpened state
Fixed element collapse order for apex & one-sided apex, ensuring top elements break before lower ones
Fixed one-sided apex behaving oddly when hit with a repair tool
Fixed issue preventing placing a Beam from a Pillar to the top of a Leaning Beam if there is another Beam linked
Fixed case where Leaning Beams were not being repaired properly
Fixed issue with Beams supported by a low Ramp that would prevent removal of the Beam and add a degenerate Pillar placement
Fixed multiplayer issue where players could dismantle a Log from a Wall and add a Wall Beam simultaneously, resulting in a floating Beam

Audio

Fixed some sounds in multiplayer having a very low precision location
Fixed other players hearing double impact sounds from shovel and repair tool
Cannibal armor now has impact audio when hit
Pistol no longer doubles up on its reload audio
Tuned terrain and motor levels of Knight V
Fixed fade time on gunshots in opening crash sequence
Added gunshots to the Demon Boss sequence
Demon Boss attack audio and hurt audio for intro and added new music sting audio
Tuned waterfalls large and small, and water spots

Sons of the Forest Patch 3

Features

Rideable E.U.C. ‘Knight V’
Nightvision goggles
Solar panels, light bulbs and wires added to construction system
Ramps/Stairs can now be built between a beam and a wall
Buildable spring trap
Working armor rack (replaces mannequin)
Added button / option to delete saves (also limited amount of save slots to 30 to fix issues with steam cloud sync)

Improvements

Dead babies now have buoyancy in water
Mr. and Mrs. Puffton clothes now burn up when they are burned
Added security camera model to bunker luxury entrance
Cannibal lookout towers and large huts are now breakable
Adjusted navigation areas by lakes to fix issue with stuck animals/characters around edges
Can now pickup and throw puffy dead bodies
Dismembering dead characters with melee is now easier
Adjusted creepy spawning logic in caves, should no longer visibly spawn and should not lead to over the top amounts of enemies in caves over time
Improved some enemy base attack logic
Enemy damage game setting is now properly replicated to clients in multiplayer
Kelvin “return to shelter” command will also return to hunting shelters and beds
Kelvin can now pick up all types of arrows, visibly carry them, and drop the proper type of arrow
Fly Swatter and Bone Maker traps will no longer trigger on small animals
Improved morgue lighting in bunker residential and added some dead cultists there
Added flower wreaths to some dead cultists
Added world position fixer to block player going outside the bounds of the world on X and Z
Added quarter resolution mipmap limit option and set book pages to use it, to prevent them becoming unreadable at low texture settings
Set rock, stick and small rock to disable colliders when not dynamic
Fixed player clothing blend shapes not always properly applying visually to other players in multiplayer
Tarp and turtle shell will now show their item count in inventory
Renamed mannequin to armor rack
Changed amount of duct tape required to build armor rack to 1
Added shimmy area after boss fight in hell cave
Made it possible to leave hell cave if reentering it after completing game
Rope climb trigger for caves is now accessible from a wider angle
Creepies will now be hidden if they manage to wander into any cutscenes
Virginia will now stash guns when carrying a gift and drop gift when entering combat

Balance

Cannibal ability to dodge heavy attacks increased
Increased John2 damage to structures
Enemies now flee further when scared

Fixes

Fixed issue with nomad cannibal families spawning more than maximum allowed amount
Fixed more cases of enemies and large animals able to spawn in player bases
Fixed missing translation on find the Puffton tutorial messages
Fixed slight delay when hovering over the exit confirm button
Fixed some more cases of being able to glitch out of the world using a stick
Fixed animation pop in puffy male walk aggressive loop
Fixed some areas players could get stuck in hell cave
Dropped backpack should now properly spawn if the player saves and reloads before picking it up
Grab bag should no longer get the player stuck in a bad state if it is opened and closed quickly
Player should no longer get into a broken state if they begin swimming while performing the refill flask action
Added a safety measure that if the player somehow gets into a state where they are missing a vital item such as their lighter, tracker, combat knife, guide book or grab bag, they will be readded when a save game is loaded
When the player’s dropped backpack is picked up, it double checks to ensure that the player now has the backpack item
Player should no longer be able to lose their backpack from using their Quick select in some rare use cases
Fish on drying racks will no longer despawn when their max pickup count is reached
Items on the camp fire will no longer auto despawn
Fixed heavy actor sometimes popping to standing when hit again during hit head reaction
Fixed Kelvin not stopping trying to fill holder that player put final item in
Fixed player getting into stuck state if machete ground attack was interrupted
Fixed stun baton FX sometimes stuck on when interrupted
Fixed issue with there sometimes being more fish than maximum allowed amount
Improved logic to better prevent cases of seeing enemies pop in
Fixed falling trees not hitting cannibals
Fixed clients sometimes seeing extra GPS locators for Virginia
Fixed multiplayer client’s taking gun with multiple mods from Virginia losing a mod
Fixed visual issues decapitating heavy faceless cannibal and female puffy

Audio

Applied logarithmic scale to volume sliders
Add an audio event for animations where cannibals hits club against ground

Sons of the Forest Patch 2

Features

Added new demon boss to end of hell caves
Added dead cultists to map
New double story cannibal hut type added
Added turtle shell rain collector
Added new tougher puffy variation
New surveillance room added to bunker residential
New cave system added
Added admin panel for admin clients
Additional story elements added
Added auto backup system when overwriting saves

Improvements

Moved gold armor to new cave system
Removed keypad entrance to bunker luxury, will now need to open it an alternate way
Container items will now save their state in single player, so if they are opened or broken, they stay that way
Improved lit fire torch brightness when viewed in first person
Removed instant season switch logic from sleeping
Adjusted the min/max turbulence of wind to prevent extreme mesh distortion at highest intensity
Firewood now crumbles when it’s fuel is used up on fires, and can then be replaced with new firewood
Furniture or ziplines can no longer be attached to doors and gates
Repositioned dead sluggy in bunker residential making it possible to come back inside bunker
Player is now able to use most left hand items while gliding
Closing save menu will go back to game rather than pause menu
Changed face on maintenance keycard to not be player character
Improvements to Finnish and Traditional Chinese text
Improved look of old paper pickups
Added books to bookshelves in bunker luxury
Removed shotgun pickup from bunker luxury
Gold armor pickup visual is now the full armor and is positioned to fit on skeleton burnt model
Improved held location of flashlight and lighter when sliding
Added additional wakeup locations in hell cave

Balance

Increased fullness from eating MRE’s and decreased fullness from eating cat food
Rabbits and Squirrels will now try harder to evade player and run faster
Added unique hit reacts to dining hall bosses and replaced their knockdowns from shotgun with smaller staggers
Player no longer takes survival stat damage while strung up on effigies
Gold Armor now absorbs 70% demonic damage instead of 90%
Increased burn time on camp fires
Increased fire fuel amount provided by leaves & cash by x10
Reduced chainsaw full charge duration
The flashlight will now auto replace the battery sooner so that it happens before the light begins to fade

Fixes

Fixed Item Duping using storage holders
Custom day length settings will now work correctly
Fixed multiple cases of enemies able to spawn inside player built bases
Fixed pops on machete block animations
Fixed bloom on tech armor blowing out visually
General navmesh improvements
Fixed issue where leaving save menu would bring back HUD and leave menu state in pause menu
Fixed locking player movement when starting to dig to fix alignment issues
Floors no longer allow placing walls if there is a leaning beam above
If a held item is set to require both hands, the equip will now also drop any logs the player was holding, fixes glider disappearing when player attempts to equip it while holding a log
Can no longer drink water while swimming
Fixed missing cleanup of the player out of breath audio
Fix for players dying instantly if jumping in water and rebreather was out of air
Camp Fires will no longer set off fire sprinklers until the fire has been lit
Fixed issue with the player getting in to a bad state if they died while performing an interaction in their inventory, such as eating or crafting
Fixed issue where the player could get stuck in a bad state when equipping, stashing and equipping items very quickly
Fixing issue with the player sometimes being able to begin eating by using hotkeys while starting other actions
Fix for binocular visuals getting stuck on screen if the player opens the pause menu while using the binoculars
If the player is not grounded while the tutorial book is out, the tutorial book will be stashed
Items can be equipped while not grounded again, excluding books
Fix for campfires becoming interactable when the player is in another action if the player previously backed away from the fire while trying to light it
Fix for having to look away from the fire after lighting it before it would be interactable
Turtle Eggs will no longer hatch on shelves or on the players grab bag
Fix for GPS locator not being cleared after being picked up and loaded from a save
Fix for clicking anywhere in the grab bag taking an item back from Virginia if the player closed the grab bag while hovering over the missing item
Fix for items not being able to be equipped from within inventory if they were not left or right hand items
Tactical in coffin GPS locator will no longer show up after loading a save where the player has already picked it up
Fix for clients not being in sync with the host for season duration if the starting season was spring
Fixed issue with player out of breathe audio not following the player unless they are running
Fixed hovering over crafted items on the mat not showing the total number of owned items including the ones on the mat
Fix for player getting stuck in falling pose if quick select is opened at the same time as jumping
Fix for the player always triggering the logic to dismount from a rope when dying; This was causing issues with incorrect items being equipped after death
Fix for player being able to pull out their grab bag on fires when they do not have the grab bag
Fix for survival damage not working in save games
Multiplayer clients are now synced with the hosts stat damage and consumable effects settings
Fix for breaking unfinished tree cabin giving infinite logs
Fixed placement prompts staying behind when placement changes from valid to invalid in some cases
Fixed beam supported by walls not propagating destruction properly to linked strutted beam
Fixed some open edges on cliffs around world
Fixed some cases of trees vanishing when walking over some parts of map above caves
Fixed firewood giving different amounts of fuel for Host and client in multiplayer games
Fixed snow appearing on some indoor plants in winter
Blood reveal on Demon should now match the body part hit
Fixed cut ferns flying up into air
Fixed Kelvin being able to burn to death from fires
Fixed some cases of A.I. actors getting into invalid states
Improved A.I. navigation in structures
Prevented some cases of animals and enemies able to spawn on player built structures
Prevented some cases of enemies attempting to move to stimuli they can’t reach
Fix For grab bag still being able to be equipped on garden plots even when the player does not have their inventory
Fix for player clothing blend shapes not applying correctly in certain situations in multiplayer
Fixed issue where other interactions would still be possible while the look animations were playing on equipping the book pickups
Planting seeds in gardens will no longer consume two seeds at a time
Item Crates and containers will no longer look closed if the player opens them, runs away and then comes back to them in single player
Fix for players held items not being re-equipped if the player is wearing the rebreather and exits the water but the mouthpiece was not actively up
Fix for players not getting their items back if the end game cutscene is triggered before they have picked up their dropped inventory
Fix for all items always doing their first look action after the walkie talkie has been equipped
Fixed player stuck with open grab bag if campfire is destroyed while they’re adding something to it
Fixed defensive wall placement UI rendering underneath cliffs
Fixed pillar building decal drawing over hands
Fixed Interacting with light fire prompt multiple times while lighting a fire getting player stuck in falling state

Audio

Fixed fire axe and modern axe hitting metal sounding like hitting flesh
Waves on shore audio no longer set to streaming
Added some additional mouseover and pickup audio events for arrows
Widened speaker spread on mutant voice events
Made near distance levels of mutant audio events more consistent
Fixed the occasional very loud mutant cry in mid distance
Tuned audio on wind, streams, player footsteps, mutants and more
Fixed hard cuts on some regular male mutant praying audio
Added audio volume slider for Walkie Talkie

Sons of the Forest Patch 1

Features

Added Binoculars
Added Hang Glider
Added Defensive Wall gate
Added mid game boss fight into food bunker
Added Settings Reset in the Options screen
Added missing Virginia leather suit pickup to world
You can now lock doors with a stick placed on the interior of the door
Built small structures (furniture) can now be grabbed, while grabbed it can either be placed again somewhere or thrown to collapse it and get back its resources
Some additional story elements added
New headshot death animation variations added for cannibals
Angry regular cannibals can attack now by jumping out of trees
Small birds will now land and eat/gain fullness
Added option to hide player name tags
Added option to hide projectile reticle and trajectory
Fish trap should now work and catch fish (every 5-10 minutes) as long as it’s placed in water and the current season is not winter
Added lookout towers to some cannibal villages
Story Paper pickups will now show UI to “Zoom” in
Added new structure type: One Sided Apex. Fills the space between a leaning beam and its supporting beam. Aligns automatically based on the leaning beam orientation. Fits quarter log variations to the right length automatically.

Balance

Added sleep cooldown
Set rest drain from hunger and dehydration to 0
Muddy Cannibals will now get less angry (from player proximity and in late game)
Added possibility of Player Sleep Interruption events from nearby enemies that can reach player
Tweaked fire drain rate to make using firewood more important
Tweaked berries to give slightly more fullness
Tweaked energy drink to give half as much hydration and less energy buff
Tweaked amount of fullness and hydration all herbs and mushrooms give
Hard enemy health setting reduced to 1.25x health
Increased cannibal armor health by 1.5x on hard
Kelvin catch fish order will end after a time
Fixed opening a cave in late game having too many enemies
Adjusted some player melee events and ranges for better A.I. responsiveness
Halved shotgun damage
Boosted seat rest amount from 0.3 to 0.7
Added regular Puffies to dining hall
Increased health on creepies depending on amount of multiplayer players active

Improvements

Improved red cannibal animation and blends
Fixed sleeping animation for female cannibal
Set up player effigy struggle/idle for multiplayer
Fixed ‘bouncy’ logs when deep in water
Performance speed up for world locators
Added Logic to allow hatches and doors to be forced open when player is spawned inside
Fix for some LOD’s sometimes not switching correctly
Fixed error caused when quitting while in death wakeup
Unique/Story items are now force equipped when they are collected
Door orientation is now determined by the position of the player when placing it, the face in front of player is the interior face
Adjusted Deer and Moose locomotion for better pathing
Prevented placing bench so close to objects that player could be stuck when standing up after sitting on it
Added more small prop setup for melee impacts and collision
Added LODs/optimization for the wall torch
Destroying screw storage now spawns stored items as dynamic pickups
Beach greebles regenerated with coral rock sizes reduced
Bunker food fixed some small lighting issues
Added radio to bunker food
Turned the table cards for Mr. and Mrs. Puffton into story pickups
Updated DLSS dll to version 3.1.1

Fixes

Should no longer be able to get through locked doors with a stick (Sorry speed runners!)
Fixed Kelvin cutting down trees with player structures attached
Fixed keycard guest not opening the two doors in bunker entertainment and not being needed to get into bunker residential
Fixed ghost blueprints not rendering underwater (for example fish trap)
Fixed some stream underwater rendering glitches
Fixed some potential issues on multiplayer disconnect
Fixed multiple issues with input bindings
Fixed player stuck after dying while climbing rope
Fixed being able to place paper target on tarp collision
Fixed place defensive wall option available on non grounded pillars, often resulting in invalid placement that gets rejected
Fixed placing a defensive wall log against a pillar made of log quarter variation causing an invalid placement that gets rejected
Fixed destroying the small animal deadfall trap getting its resources yielded back twice
Fixed some issues occurring when a fire is destroyed while interacting with it
Fixed lifting tarp with stick sometimes not detecting stick being equipped properly when auto equipped resulting in a unnecessary delay before performing the action
Fixed adding log planks to ghost blueprint structures by splitting logs automatically not consuming the log properly
Fixed case where some elements from some unbuilt outlines could be removed
Volume fix for cave visuals disabling when navigating into some corners of caves
Fixes for various open rock / cliff edges in terrain
Fixed case where Virginia grab bag interaction could trigger at same time as pickup, leading to bad player state
Fixed case of player stuck attacking with spear after revive
Fixed enemy armor setting not working
Fixed animal count setting not working correctly
Fixed player able to trigger actions while doing ground attacks, fixes some possible temporary stuck states.
Fixed some cases of small birds not being scared of player
Fixed some incorrect keyboard icons for keypad inputs
Fixed music not playing in title screen after leaving a multiplayer game
Autumn ground leaves shouldn’t pop on visually as much now
Player will no longer get into a broken state when trying to equip an item that they are already holding and have maxed out in inventory
Fixed a transition to move with Tactical Axe which was preventing attack/block/parry from activating during it
Fixed case where removing a beam supporting a pillar wouldn’t re-link the pillar properly with its new support, resulting in wrong pillar position calculated after the cascading repositioning process
Fixed wood stack loading from saves as an apex (non retro-active)
Added player saving system for cutscenes
Fixed the cave shark eating severed limbs looking broken
Fixed some cave entrance bat scare spawn locations
Fixed some eagle perch landing / takeoff issues. Add a perch spot to tall dead stump
Fixed issue where walking over entertainment bunker could cause trees and other world objects to disappear.
Cannibals should no longer snap long distances to climb into windows
Fix for clients no longer loading into the correct season when rejoining a saved game
Players held items at time of knockout are now remembered upon being revived
Tutorials will no longer be force closed when opening the pause menu and are instead just visually toggled. This should fix some tutorials such as the pick up construction element tutorial from completing before the player has actually done it
Player will no longer slide down slopes when either utility book is held or when the player is in their inventory
Can no longer attach both the laser sight and flashlight weapon mods to the crossbow at the same time
Fixed some cases of multiplayer client able to duplicate logs
Fixed repairing wood stacks not putting its elements back in correct position
Fixed floating log when chopping down a tree with tree shelter attached to it
Fixed Screw Structures being broken apart have no audio
Tagged auto jumps off on portable light
Fixed Kelvin dropping radios destroying the radio
Fixed weapons given to Virginia not being returned with correct amount of ammo and weapon upgrades
Modified fade distance on icons slightly to make them more visible
Fixed for player able to be pushed through terrain if another players stand on their head
Fixed opening hatches removing weapon upgrades from currently held weapon
Made sure player correctly aligns to death marker when dying at high height
Removed floating life vest
Fixed displacement digging visuals breaking on some quality settings

Audio

Improved audio CPU overhead
Improved some cannibal audio/vocals
Reduced audio stuttering issues
Reduced intensity of high wind audio to reduce performance impact
Reduced max instances of footstep audio to reduce CPU cost and improve performance
Changed the audio ringing effect on explosions and grenades to lessen as you are further from the explosion to avoid it cutting out with distance
Spittle audio added to first spittle nest in entertainment bunker
Added fadeouts to physics sounds
Tuned player rock footstep when running, waterfall and surf levels
Added gun fight audio before door opening to “Get down son” cutscene
Updated triggered and reset audio events on flyswatter, bone maker and small animal traps
Prevented repair tool from spamming SFX causing performance and audio issues
Fixed audio loop not ending when climbing down ropes

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