General

Creatures

• There’s now support for multiple active companions. Bring your whole squad with you! 
  
• Companions can now be commanded to perform their actions. Bonding is no longer required, but still possible
  
• Interacting with a companion moves the camera closer to the player
  
• Creatures now have a “mood meter” which indicates how happy they are
  
• Companions can now be nicknamed! Nicknames will appear over their heads
  
• Creatures can now be fed, washed, and played with to increase their mood and experience bar
  
• Improved locomotion animations for all companions (Stormdog, Otterlot, Longhorn, Axepecker and Bibi)
  
• Improved creature summoning and dismissing
  
• Improved Hogbunny dismiss animation
  
• Extended animations for playing with creature
  
• Improved idle animation for Stormdog
  

Player Housing

• New player houses added!
  
  • Cave
    
  • Tree House
    

Farming

• Tilling
  
  • Easier to design farms as tilling preview should now feel more fluid and intuitive
    
  • Angled tilling allows for more intricately designed farms.
    
  • Tilled ground visual indicates plant water amount with darkened texture
    
• Pollinating/Farming Time
  
  • Pollinating plants using the Bibi and Pollen Bag yield crops immediately
    
• Seed Pods
  
  • Monsters now drop Seed Pods instead of Seeds, based on what region they’re in
    
  • These Seed Pods can be used to craft the different seeds that the enemies no longer drop
    
  • Petal refined in the Cutter now make Pollen Bags directly, no longer creating Pollen
    
• Plant Definitions
  
  • Uprooting a plant now gives the relevant Seed Pod back
    

Quality of Life Improvements

• Improved flow in the beginning of the game
  
• Better player economy (balancing pass)
  
• Improved farming abilities (easier to tile, target, and otherwise tend to farm)
  
• “Add All” items action when interacting with construction alters and refineries 
  
• Added “Drop Items” action from inventory
  
• Added tracking of work orders
  
• Sleeping in a bed enabled during daytime
  
• Workbench prompts and map markers disabled until the first shrine is fixed
  

Visuals

• Improvements to various particle systems
  
• Creatures have VFX to indicate their mood change
  
• Made path towards longhorn more pronounced
  

Combat

• Monsters
  
  • Removed multiple monster spawners in the beginning of the game
    
  • All monsters have had their health reduced
    
• Weapons
  
  • Club area of effect damage has been increased
    
  • All weapons have had their damage increased
    

NPCs

• Added an alternative speaking animation for the octi pilot, Milas Morgenshell
  

Inventory

• Increased max inventory size from 56 to 70
  
• Increased starting inventory slots from 16 to 20
  
• Updated inventory menu, chest menu and sell chest menu to be 10 slots wide
  
• Moved health bar and currency counter in the inventory menu to fill empty space
  
• Reduced max slots in Duffel Bag from 24 to 20
  
• Increased max slots in Tall Bag from 56 to 60
  
• Increased starting slots in Sell Chest from 24 to 30
  
• Increased amount of slots InventoryUpgrade pickup adds from 8 to 10
  
• Added 2 slots to the equipment bar
  
• Added keyboard mapping buttons for selecting slot 9 and 10 to the remapping menu
  

Resource Gathering

• Wild Flowers
  
  • Uprooting Flowers now always give Petals
    
  • Uprooting Leaf Bush now always gives Leaves
    
• Amri Machines
  
  • Amri Machines now drop more loot, as well as Amri
    

Tools

• New tool - Fishing Rod has been added!
  
• New tool - Shovel has been added!
  
• Watering Can
  
  • Watering ability has had its radius reduced
    
  • Activate animation on water pump when refilling the Watering Can
    
• Fishing Nodes
  
  • Added more fishing nodes in multiple areas
    

Decorations

• Added 11 more decorations to the various shops with “Outdoor” theme
  
• Added animations for the 11 new decorations
  

GUI

• Tutorials added
  
  • Basics
    
  • Pirate Camps
    
  • Combat
    
  • Farming
    
  • Housing
    
  • Crafting
    
  • Resources
    
  • Creatures
    
• Added patch notes button to main menu screen
  
• Added new icons for emotes, tools and placeables
  
• Seeds now have their own category in the crafting menu
  
• Updated visuals keyboard input icons
  
• Scaled down map icons slightly
  
• Added “thank you” message when submitting feedback
  
• Clicking outside an opened submenu in the main menu now closes the opened menu
  
• Added dropdown menu to audio settings
  
• Mouse sensitivity slider added
  
• Page indicator for equipment bar added
  

Input/Controller

• Space Bar no longer opens inventory
  
• Picking Up items moved to X on Controller, Right Mouse Button/F on Keyboard
  
• Tools, Weapon, and Combo moved to the Left Mouse Button.
  
• Players can now talk to statues and pick up items while having tool or weapon equipped
  
• Pollinate and Watering moved to the Left Mouse Button
  
• Tools and weapon usage moved to the Left Mouse Button
  
• Creature abilities moved to the Left Mouse Button
  
• Stomp Tile moved to Right Mouse Button / X
  
• Otterlot Fishing ability moved to Left Mouse Button / A
  
• Pick Up moved to Right Mouse Button / X
  
• "Cancel" moved to Spacebar
  

Audio

• Optimized music system with more dynamics, and changes between regions
  
• New Audio Silence system on the menu that lets players choose if the music will play constantly or with pauses in between while exploring
  
• New Explore Music for areas where the Shrines have yet to be repaired
  
• New Combat Music for areas where the Shrines have yet to be repaired
  
• New Misophonic Slider - Players can tone down snores, eating and other foley sounds
  
• New sounds for all new placeable objects
  
• New creature sounds
  
• Navigating menu sounds updated
  

Miscellaneous

• Player can now rotate the character in the inventory menu with the right stick
  
• General improvements to AI and pathfinding (Enemies & Companions)
  

Bugs Fixes

• Fixed multiple areas where players could get stuck
  
• Fixed issue causing the player to be unable to craft the Pebbleput Pants
  
• Fixed typo in dialogue relating to the first Pirate Camp
  
• Plants will no longer block the ability to till ground
  
• Various texture bug fixes
  
• Players can no longer spam-feed companions
  
• The knockback effect when attacking a resource node was only triggered sometimes
  
• Players can no longer be defeated while fast traveling
  
• Companions will no longer sometimes evolve when at max level
  
• Time can no longer be frozen after fixing the first shrine and then saving and loading
  
• House workbench markers no longer reappear on the map after being completed
  
• Hold to activate actions now properly update the hold progress circle when being activated
  
• The preview of the item being added to workbench no longer get stuck when cycling through many items
  
• Audio settings are now being saved
  
• Chest menu now says character name when trading with another player character
  
• Quests are now clickable with mouse in the quest menu
  
• All buttons in settings menu are now clickable with mouse
  
• Clicking an item in the shop no longer purchases without displaying the description first