What if that day/time doesn't work for me?

Added item group for craftable items

Added a "Crash WebGL" button for testing purposes.
Fixed "Revert Death" being duplicated when canceling quitting the game.
Fixed changing maximum health not saving/updating properly.
Healing yourself will no longer disable noclip.
You can now add all items matching the dropdown filter text to a container.
Added the ability to increase/decrease stat maximum values.
The "inspect item" binding now works much more consistently.
Filtered out heat & cold insulation from the editable stats in the Inspect dialog. (Thanks TheUnnamedStranger!)
Renamed the Invulnerable option to Unkillable. (Thanks TheUnnamedStranger!)

TARS

Improved determination on what creature is a threat or not.

Fixed creatures not moving on older saves. (Thanks Tapenki!)
Fixed cloud water not rendering correctly.
Cloudstones no longer weigh as much.
Nimbus is no longer is crafted with snowflakes and increased the feathers/cloudstones required to craft it.

[ 2023-12-03 04:51:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

Wayward Newsletter #12

Welcome the 12th iteration of the Wayward newsletter, featuring future plans, dissecting current issues, showcasing mods/media, and more!

Beacons Call Postmortem

The last major update and the patches thereafter were a big step in improving player experience and smoothing out the starting of the game. Whether it was the addition of dripstones, adding freshwater rivers to the starting island, reputation tweaks, spawning location improvements, or additions to the Starter Quest - there was tons done to refine the early game. While theres still lots of work to be done here, the feedback has been pretty positive there. Thats not to say mid-late game players also didnt get some goodies here either. Ports and shippers offer up a way to transport items across islands. Gems and golems provide a late-game milestone to search out and create. Creature cages add an easy method of transporting creatures, especially across islands. Creature commands provide incentives for making long-time friends with your tamed companions. Bookcases adds bonuses for keeping all the lore and text in the game. These are just a few of the features added in the last major update if you havent had a chance to check it out yet.

New Beginners Guide Video

Speaking of new players, I recently put out a new updated beginners guide video going through the Starter Quest and handing out a few additional tips and tricks while doing so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbReL-OzoFM

Upcoming Reputation Changes

You may have already seen a hint of this change with the renaming of Reputation to Ferocity which better explains its effects. This is just the beginning of it though. To explain, reputation in Wayward has always been a "difficulty slider", but one done through in-game mechanics and lore. The whole purpose of it has not been one of ecological commentary, but rather, to provide players a way to modify the game to their liking and playstyle. The issues with it are many but include:

What increases/decreases reputation is unknown to the player natively and must be discovered.
Actions can sometimes increase and decrease reputation at the same time, leading to net-neutral changes.
Some actions can be exploited to gain or lower reputation, leading to a lot of tedious gameplay like using the same action/mechanic over and over again.
It forces some actions/playstyles that a player may not want to do just because they want to keep a certain difficulty.
It's confusing to new players, but new players have to be aware of it so they can tweak their difficulty.
It's balanced in a way that over time, the game is supposed to get harder; however, depending on the player's playstyle this intent can be lost.

Deities to save the day! As paying homage to its roguelike roots, Wayward will be introducing deities, invoking, and sacrifice; a common staple of the genre. While this has been planned for years now, it was always meant to augment reputation, but now it will be replacing it. This system will solve every point above as actions no longer impact the difficulty of the game. You are free to do whatever you want. As you play, the difficulty of the game will increase naturally, but, the player has direct control over this. They can devote themselves to the deities of the island to offset this. Later on, they can even sacrifice collectable runes (dropped to the player when performing actions) to swing difficulty in either direction with a single action.

We would consider adding an in-game difficulty slider to be a failure. We would rather continue to iterate on the concept of dynamic difficulty and I really think we got it feeling really good this time around.

Upcoming Inventory/Container Overhaul

The next piece of the old UI is on the chopping block! If you are not familiar with the backstory here; we slowly have been redoing pieces of UI to modernize it (maintenance-wise) and provide new features/improvements all of which eventually will allow us to do full controller support. This is something we have to work on over time as it is a huge undertaking and a lot of it is near-invisible to most players. After this one, the next and final one to port over is the crafting dialog. As an added bonus this time around, we will be adding a much-requested feature that is very much visible to players. Item stacking! Simply CTRL+click an item to stack it together. Hold CTRL to preview the stack, and CTRL+click it again to unstack it.

Development Branch

The development branch where you can test all these changes should be live soon. We are planning by the end of this week to reenable it for all the eager testers out there. Stay tuned for the development branch announcement!

Feature Voting

Something that we always like to mention in these newsletters is that our feature voting page works as an impromptu roadmap for the game - but one where players get to pick what they see as most important. Check it out and cast your vote for upcoming features: https://www.waywardgame.com/vote

Media Showcase

As has become a yearly-ish tradition, Splattercat has recently released a new video on Wayward. Funnily enough, he mentions the reputation issues mentioned above, leading to the impetus for us to focus on that system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pftFxUBjpM If you have been keeping up on the updates during this lull in updates, you probably have already seen these teaser videos, but if not, check out a preview of armor stands and wheelbarrows, two highly requested features coming up in the next release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQgZ-98dq_Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LzoCh_1ETs

Mod Showcase

Check out some of the recent modifications the community has created! Player-Owned Areas by HDJam Adds the ability to claim areas, protecting them from other players. A great utility for dedicated servers to prevent griefing or setting up custom scenarios/challenges. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2992525255 Quality Tile Colours by Kitsune Quickly becoming the most popular Wayward Workshop submission, this mod displays small colorized sparkles on tiles and doodads with quality. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2990505230 Jeeves - Unofficial Update by Dark Helix An unofficial port/update of the once-popular mod, Jeeves by Cringe which allows management of items on the ground - showing them in a container dialog. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2964370715 Fantasy Customizations by Sensakuma Adds a ton of custom hairstyles (some fantasy-based), exotic skin tones, and more. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2978026244 Quick Stack by FluffyWuffletonTheFierce A tool for automatically moving and sorting items based on filtered item types and groups. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2854879083

Autumn Sale

If you are reading this before the 28th of November, you still have a chance to grab Wayward for -25% off as part of the Steam Autumn sale. https://store.steampowered.com/app/379210/Wayward/

Leave A Review!

If you have a few moments to spare after reading this, we would love it if you shared your feedback on the game with us in the form of a Steam review. It helps us a lot! Thanks for reading and stay tuned!

[ 2023-11-27 20:47:29 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beacon's Call Update #5

Okay, I've almost lost track of the times I said this would be the last patch for Beacon's Call, yet, here's another one! This one is another small patch that fixes some issues that are a bit more pressing and we would rather not wait until the next major release to get them out there to the players. See the details below! Bonus Promo: I recently did a new Beginner's Guide video for Wayward. Check it out here if you are having trouble starting out in Wayward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbReL-OzoFM Bonus Tip: For a more continuous fresh water collection, try out wells! Wells can be built in many locations, but only some provide fresh water. When trying to find a good spot, a rope is your best friend. Use the "Test Depth" action on a rope after placing a well to see its water status. Some locations will provide water over time, and some will be infinite (although this is rare). This all depends on what exists under the well within the caves. If you are getting swamp or seawater in your well, you are too close to a swamp or seawater source and will need to move the well, or move the offending water. Non-infinite wells will fill over time, so you must wait for them to gather water; so one strategy would be to build several of them for a good supply.

New

Action slots that aren't configured to use specific items are now automatically brought into new saves by default. This functionality can be disabled in the action bar options.
Added an option to configure the screen position of the Steam Input Keyboard on Steam Deck.

Improvements

Using the + and - buttons in the action bar now add and remove whole rows at a time instead of individual action slots. You can hold shift if you want to add/remove individual slots still.
Only automatically open the Steam Input Keyboard on Steam Deck when the text input is important or when the input is clicked again.
You can now change the default modifier order for action bar rows. (For example, by default the rows are None, Ctrl, Shift, Alt, and you can change it to None, Shift, Ctrl, Alt, among all other possible combinations.) This feature can still be overridden by setting custom slot bindables.
The primary resource of basalt ground is now basalt.

Balance

You can no longer learn recipes from crafted items from other players when using the Rouseabout milestone modifier.

Bug Fixes

Fixed sleeping/resting taking too long/locking up the game. (Thanks CaptainSparklebutt!)
Fixed action slots becoming very slow on islands with an excessive amount of items. (Thanks Veeyu!)
Fixed generated doodads getting incorrect weight values. (Thanks Anketam!)
Fixed multiple items that could go under 0.1 weight using featherweight and refining. (Thanks King Smidgens!)
Fixed glowing magical properties not stacking with torches properly. (Thanks Aresff!)
Fixed exuding leading to decimal values sometimes.
Fixed "void" being able to be a treasure location. Note that this fix will only apply to treasure maps for islands generated after this update. (Thanks Veeyu!)
Fixed rare multiplayer desyncs related to magic properties.
Fixed multiplayer desyncs when using the upgrade action. (Thanks Veeyu!)
Fixed {1} after crafting efficacy in messages. (Thanks Nameless!)
Fixed soem typos.

Modding

Mod compilation should now be faster due to no longer typechecking the base game definitions when compiling a mod.
Fixed "@Register.stat" requiring a tooltip. (Thanks Sensakuma!)

Mods

TARS

Fixed TARS getting stuck when overburdened.
Fixed issues regarding picking up dripstones. (Thanks GrayStillPlays!)
Fixed TARS killing a creature and then forgetting to carve it.

[ 2023-08-05 21:11:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beacon's Call Update #4

So, it looks like the last patch wasn't the last one after all. We have another small patch that fixes some new issues that popped up and adds some other smaller improvements. Now, this should be the last one as we work on the next major update. Bonus Promo: The Steam Summer sale is still live! Enjoy -30% off Wayward or -10% off the soundtracks until the 13th. Bonus Tip: Feeling stuck? Check out the Starter Quest, available by default by pressing U, clicking the Quests icon in the top button bar, or clicking the pinned Welcome box near your messages.

Improvements

You can now hold the mouse down on action slots to keep using them.
You can now "auto-use" action slots when overburdened when no slots are usable, the "walk to tile" path will be cancelled. When overburdened, "walk to tile" is no longer available.
The "eat" action now prefers using items with less decay time remaining first. (Thanks httpsnet!)
"Auto-use" now no longer automatically uses actions when you have no stamina. (Thanks Grub!)
Island distance calculations are now circular sailing in any direction changes things at a fixed rate, rather than diagonals increasing faster.
The Starter Quest now explains input sequences for assigning items to action slots.
The Starter Quest now teaches how to use action slots without items.

Bug Fixes

Magical item properties are now absorbed and exuded as percentages, fixing issues with featherweight and other properties based on item stats. (Thanks Veeyu!)
Fixed action bar bindings being used over context menu bindings. (Thanks Aresff!)
Fixed "Move All" actions in the item actions menu not displaying type & quality anymore. (Thanks Kargen Dracos!)
Fixed being able to move on top of other players while they are connecting.
Fixed far-away islands not having tooltips or being clickable in the islands dialog. (Thanks Deadpull!)
Fixed taking damage sometimes not stopping path to tile. (Thanks Grub!)
Fixed multiplayer desyncs related to dangerous movement animations. (Thanks Veeyu!)
Fixed multiplayer desyncs that occurred when multiple players, who were on different islands, were all joining at the same time.
Fixed multiplayer desyncs that occurred when traveling. (Thanks Veeyu!)
Fixed certain plants being spawned as "bare". (Thanks Veeyu!)
Fixed action slot action icons no longer having transparency when not usable. (Thanks Rainshine!)
Fixed outdated references to old recipes in the Starter Quest. (Thanks Storm!)
Fixed action slot tooltips being incredibly laggy and flickery. (They are now only slightly laggy and flickery. (Further down the line we'll rework the internal systems behind tooltips to get them faster. (Hopefully.)))
Fixed the active container icon being broken on higher interface scales. (Thanks ChrisLivingIt!)
Fixed tile quality not transferring in some cases.

Modding

A development version of the Wayward Types Viewer is now published nightly.
A development version of the English language file is now published nightly.

[ 2023-07-06 06:14:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beacon's Call Update #3

Here's what will likely be the last update in the "Beacon's Call" series culminating in a huge batch of bug fixes and improvements to smooth out the game while we switch focuses on the next big update. Thank you for all the feedback and support! Bonus Promo: Please consider leaving us a review on Steam. This helps us get the feedback we need to keep improving the game while we work towards our major upcoming milestone - a full, non-Early Access release. Oh ya, and that whole Steam Sumer Sale thing is happening. Wayward is -30% off during the sale: https://store.steampowered.com/app/379210/Wayward/ Bonus Tip: Tin tools are considered blunt due to the softness of the materials, making them great at things like mining, repairing, and providing defense in the form of armor, but a poor choice for lumberjacking and cutting (things that require a sharpened tool).

New

Added support for Apple Silicon.

Improvements

Action slot tooltips now filter the item information down to only what's relevant to the item in the slot. You can still hold "shift" by default to show the hidden information.
Badderlocks no longer decay, aloe vera bandages no longer disassemble with aloe vera leaves, and cactus scarecrows now use cactus ribs for crafting. These changes prevent issues where disassembling caused decay values for the sub-components to "freeze" in place.
The sorting and direction of all dialogs will now be saved. (Thanks !)
Action tier information is now displayed in action menus and slots.
Action slot tooltips now display the current "item mode", whether it's an exact item, by type & quality, by type, or any item.
Backups are now contained within a folder based on the current active Steam account.
Dismantling items will no longer provide two prompts when attempting to dismantle with an item that will break on use (if both on use/on dismantle were set). (Thanks Kargen Dracos!)
You can now drink and pour directly from peeled coconuts without making a container out of them first.
Peeled coconuts now act as a liquid when broken or placed on a fire and can be used in crafts.
The "tap" input in bindings now appears as an icon.
Action slots now display a * symbol by the action when they're in "any item of type" and "any item of quality" modes.
The active dialog (where quick-moved items will go) is now indicated via an icon and a white border.
The "Use When Moving" feature has been renamed to "Auto-Use".
You can now use ctrl + enter "Submit" binding in the actions drawer to accept the current configuration.
Some icons in bindings now have tooltips describing what they mean.
Hints are no longer displayed in action slot tooltips when showing more information, to save screen space.
The text "hover item" is no longer shown on every binding in the bindings menu.
Mods that aren't enabled now appear white in the mod list tooltip on multiplayer servers, and mods that can't be found appear orange.
The "mods" button on the main menu now has a tooltip displaying which mods are enabled.
The viewport now resizes when screen DPI changes.
The "Locksmith" milestone modifier description now should be more clear on its effects. (Thanks Veeyu!)
Stat bars no longer appear to refill when at 0 or below.
Unpublished mods (mods without "publishedFileId") are now displayed on the "mods" icon in the multiplayer menu, and when joining the server, only other unpublished copies of the mod can be used. (Thanks HDJam!)
Added a warning when hosting a server when unpublished mods (mods without "publishedFileId"s) are enabled. (Thanks HDJam!)
Some places in the game that previously couldn't show the left click icon and instead would show "Left Click" as text now show the left click icon. (Thanks !)
Improved consistency of water/ice particle colors.
Testing well depth now creates puddles.

Balance

Friendly and Pacifier milestones will now prefer land-based creatures to spawn.
Claw worms now skip the turn they were stirred up on. (Thanks httpsnet!)
Reverted a change to small bags so their preservation rate is back to previous values, but reduced their storage capacity instead.
Scarecrows now provide civilization score.
Peeled coconuts now decay into coconut meat first before rotting vegetation.
Reduced maximum decay of coconut meat and peeled coconuts.

Bug Fixes

Fixed solar stills not refilling properly. (Thanks psusi!)
Fixed not being able to set action slots to "any item" and an action if all items currently matching are protected. (Thanks Kargen Dracos!)
Fixed shooting ranged weapons not adhering to protection in some cases. (Thanks Hiran!)
Fixed screen flickering when resizing inventory, container, and crafting dialogs.
Fixed tamed creature "command" action default bindings not working. (Thanks Eudae!)
Fixed disassembling items resetting their base component decay values. (Thanks Kargen Dracos!)
Fixed "Abnormalizer" spawning aberrant versions of creatures via item interactions. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fixed a decay exploit with torches among other decay inconsistencies. (Thanks httpsnet!)
Fixed many tile quality inconsistencies.
Fixed stat bars transitioning between widths when UI effects are disabled.
Fixed lava/cooling lava not animating correctly.
Fixed some actions not checking whether they're truly applicable on specific items, such as whether an item can be refueled. (Thanks Feral Grumpicorn!)
Fixed a strange "scan-line" like effect when stamina is very low, above zero, and UI effects are disabled.
Fixed movement-related bindings sometimes taking precedence over context menu ones. (Thanks Eudae!)
Fixed templates generating with wrong-facing doors and fence gates. (Thanks Veeyu!)
Fixed being able to click/interact/hover over invisible islands in the islands dialog. (Thanks httpsnet!)
Fixed not being able to use "x with y" actions in "any item of type" mode.
Fixed slither suckers persisting in containers and on the ground after throwing them. (Thanks httpsnet!)
Fixed the "mod not installed" error displaying the text "{name}@{version}" when failing to connect to a server.
Fixed movement in vehicles being blocked by creatures (fish) and doodads being under you. (Thanks httpsnet!)
Fixed thrown weapons costing two durability when hitting creatures/doodads. (Thanks Grub!)
Potentially fixed some issues that could cause broken drawn and tattered maps. (Thanks Crows!)
Fixed messages not being scrolled all the way down when first loading a save.
Fixed not getting visual feedback for the context menu option you chose when using its binding.
Fixed the Helmsman milestone not counting biomes correctly. (Thanks httpsnet!)
Fixed some "x with y" actions no longer being slottable if the item is not currently able to be "x"d.
Fixed pressing enter while in the actions drawer filter input making the actions drawer always close no matter what you try to do in it.
Fixed some incorrect liquid particle colors on swamp/fresh/freezing water.
Fixed "show more" binding not working in action menus.
Fixed some cases where actions could be unusable due to missing requirements without a message.
Fixed removed or modified modded quests sometimes appearing to be incomplete for players when in the "completed" category. (Thanks Gyuri (kustox)!)
Fixed quests dialog failing to display quests or displaying the wrong quests when modded quests have been changed or modified. (Thanks Gyuri (kustox)!)
Fixed future potential issues regarding duplicate/incorrect notes being granted via the Notekeeper milestone. (Thanks Matthew Cline!)
Fixed various issues for modded world layers
Fixed some issues with tile qualities.
Fixed some actions not being named properly for the "Operator" milestone. (Thanks !)
Fixed the "Trapper" milestone modifier not reducing skill gain rate. (Thanks Veeyu!)
Fixed the close button being able to be pushed off of the map dialog. (Thanks Gyuri (kustox)!)
Fixed incorrect item animation positions when attaching/detaching containers from solar stills.
Fixed the "disable all" mods button sometimes causing prompts to appear.
Fixed some mods incorrectly scrolling to the "other" section in options on enable. (Thanks !)
Fixed tooltip position shifting when toggling more information shown.
Fixed mod images not getting scaled using bilinear filtering.
Fixed pinned message borders being cut off.
Fixed website links in messages not working.

Technical

Miscellaneous multiplayer matchmaking server improvements.
Migrated Discord integration to the Discord GameSDK.
Upgraded to Electron 22.3.14

Modding

Prompts are now more easily moddable.
Reduced the chance of publishing the same mod separately multiple times.

Mods

Allow zooming in the selection panel
Fixed not being able to inspect modded world layers.

Fixed multiplayer desyncs.

Creatures now spawn in order of spawning reputation (based on biome type).
Fixed spawn creature lanes not working for modded creatures.

Fixed the overworld not rendering properly when looking down from the troposphere.
Fixed creatures not being able to move.
Fixed cloud/storm boulder rendering issues.
Fixed doodads regenerating each load.

[ 2023-07-02 21:30:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beacons Call Update #2

This beefy update brings a further smoothing out of the early gameplay and mechanics to help new players get into the game a bit easier among many bug fixes and other improvements. The biggest overhaul here is to do with water - the coastal biome is generally richer with fresh water in the form of rivers scattered throughout the mountains leading you to not require a still in most cases. Speaking of which, a still might not be your best bet for desalination any longer due to the introduction of dripstones, which desalinate water without the use of fire or extra containers, making them a much easier-to-understand device. There are tons of other changes as well that will help early and late-game players alike including stat gains no longer producing reputation losses among other reputation tweaks and modifications; there's more to come on this system as a whole coming in the next major update. Bonus Promo: A special shoutout to both Splattercat and Nookirum who both have recently covered the game on their channels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pftFxUBjpM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XcDN-uOmpc Bonus Tip: Going forward, exploring your island is even more important. You want to find as many freshwater sources as possible. You may want to do this before setting up a base of operations.

New

Added "dripstones", a simplified desalination device.

Required Steam Workshop mods are now automatically downloaded when joining multiplayer servers.
Added a "drop on disassemble" option.
Added "fairy rings" to the wetlands biome.

Improvements

Changed the reputation stat display to instead display "Ferocity", the threat level of spawned creatures, based on your reputation.
Added icons to container dialog titles.

Naturally created caves can no longer generate side by side to each other.
Improved cave entrance generation. Cave entrances can no longer be narrow corridors and may generate in more interesting spots on the overworld.
Items now appear at half resolution in 0.5x interface scale.
Normal quality items now have a faint border to help darker items pop out from dialogs.
NPCs will now swap positions with players if they are on a cave entrance when they ascend or descend.
Randomly discovering and digging up treasure is now more of a surprise and doesn't spawn treasure guardians.
Item decay now displays the exact turns remaining when less than 200.
Item piles are now distributed around doodads instead of on top of them.
When dropping items on piles of items that are visually full, the placement will now cycle through the top row.
Piles of items are now shown visually larger/more spread out.
Protected spyglasses or sextants can no longer be used for travel if they would break. (Thanks DerSimon!)
You can no longer attempt to start fires on cave entrances; however, you can now set fire to collapsed cave entrances. (Thanks httpsnet!)
Add internal "contexts" to bindables in order to reduce the number of conflict warnings in the bindings menu.
"Toggle container" is now the default action for containers instead of "open container".
Improved and fixed some issues with the defense inspection. There are now tooltips on some details in this inspection to help players understand how insulation works a bit better.
Lit or unlit torches can no longer receive the elemental damage magical property. (Thanks DerSimon!)
FOV transitions are now disabled when movement animation is disabled.
The "Not for Sale item" grouping is no longer visible to players.

Balance

Coastal islands now can have fresh water springs located in large mountain ranges.

Water now has a chance of being depleted when routing it and not being from a large enough source.
Water stills have been converted to metal-based boiler devices; a more advanced craft and desalination device.
Gaining stats no longer affects reputation.
Treasure chest guardians will now only spawn when digging chests at lower reputation levels.
Water stills will now desalinate water slightly faster.
Krakens no longer spawn by default in cave water on coastal.
When digging/mining up cave entrances, you can no longer dig/mine into single tile caves.
Water stills have been removed from the Starter Quest and replaced with a boiling fresh water quest.
When using the Starter Quest on the coastal biome, you will now spawn by a pond.
New players can no longer start with unpurified forms of water.
Increased the size at which a water source becomes "permanent" where no water is lost on gather.
The wetlands biome no longer produces as much fertile soil (or civilization score). (Thanks Chernosliv84!)
Increased the distance in which cave entrances can appear next to each other when digging/mining.
You now have to see your trap go off to get skill from it; however, building traps now raises your trapping skill.
Reduced the chance of drake firebreathing when in combat.
Increased the lockpicking difficulty and durability of chests above wooden.
Reduced preservation chance of small bags.
Backpacks now provide 2 defense instead of 1.

Bug Fixes

Fixed attempting to sleep/rest nearby hostile creatures not waking the player. (Thanks Dragons!)
Fixed multiple treasures spawning in the same locations with identical treasure maps to go along with them. Note that this fix will only apply to new islands. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed being able to replace unpassable tiles with water using puddles. (Thanks httpsnet!)
Fixed doodad and item spawn chances being distributed incorrectly.
Upon upgrading a save to Beacon's Call (Update 2), any temperature will be recalculated, potentially fixing strange artifacts where heat appears to be generated from nothing. (Thanks httpsnet!)
Fixed temperature persisting on lit doodad. (Thanks psusi!)
Fixed digging for treasure still producing tile resources/changes when failing a skill check at digging up the treasure.
Fixed many issues with lower interface scales.
Fixed being able to set things down out of bounds or on void tiles. (Thanks Gyuri (kustox)!)
Fixed bows not displaying the correct attack value in their tooltip. (Thanks Axxron, Scourge of the tts!)
Fixed several issues when attempting to spawn water creatures when dropping food. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fixed "fire extinguisher" items not triggering "melted" properties. (Thanks Kitsune!)
Fixed the "Template" biome from showing up in custom game mode options.
Fixed swapping tiles with fish allowing them to go on to land. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fixed not being able to open item containers when facing an NPC.
Fixed containers reporting the wrong weight when performing certain actions with items. (Thanks sechsauge!)
Fixed skeletal remains not spawning correctly on wetlands biomes.
Fixed cypress trees spawning on shallow fresh water on the coastal and wetlands biome (this should have been shallow swamp water).
Fixed items with damage modifiers not burning into other items properly. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fix selected save count in the load game menu not getting updated when deleting an individual save.
Fixed some plants and mushrooms spawning on grass in the wetlands biome.
Fixed certain types of puddles not being removed properly. (Thanks tr1ger1n86!)
Fixed stat bar color when empty and UI effects are disabled.
Fixed a multiplayer desync that occurred when joining a server. (Thanks Kitsune!)
Some old messages that appear in the message log have been fixed.
Fixed an instance where lit doodads could show embers even though the stage of the fire was greater. (Thanks Petalwing!)
The "Turns" value on save slot tooltips now matches the "Turns" value in the Reputation tooltip. (Thanks httpsnet!)
Fixed mods list not always updating when removing mods.
Fixed the loading screen being able to get stuck when failing to join a server that has mods.
Fixed "alter" action not working on elemental damage type magical properties. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fixed mod count on the main menu not always being correct.
Fixed the action slot icon persisting on an item after it had been cleared using the "Clear Slot" button in the actions drawer. (Thanks Petalwing!)
Fixed "You cannot do that" messages appearing when pathing to tiles while using a "use slot while moving" action slot. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fixed Starter Quest dialog not remembering the last selection when re-opening the dialog.
Fixed player names being incorrectly cased when used in messages where the sentence starts with their name.
Fixed issues when attempting to load the same mod locally and through the workshop. (Thanks !)
Fixed opened containers within chests not re-opening when loading a game.

Modding

Stat gain (ie, Metabolism, Dexterity, and Strength) has been refactored to give modders full control over how custom stats are gained. (Thanks Sensakuma!)
Added "@Register.override" a new, automatically-handled way of tweaking vanilla content. (Thanks Sensakuma!)
Fixed app.asar not extracting properly. (Thanks huck!)
When creating or updating a +script mod, your Node.js version is now compared to the version we recommend, and a warning is shown if it's out of date.
Added "@Register.equipType", allowing modders to add their own equipment slots. (Thanks olatuf!)

Mods

You can now teleport to treasure positions.
Fixed numerous issues with the island dropdown in the general panel.
Fixed the "layers" dropdown.
Fixed tooltip flickering due to tile temperature inspection.
Remember the last selected panel when re-opening the dialog.

[ 2023-06-13 02:58:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beacon's Call Update #1

We have a quite sizable update ready to end this weekend off with. In terms of balance changes, we are striving to make the early game more accessible to new players, but further the challenge as you play. Youll see some more significant changes in the next couple of updates. Speaking about one such change, Player spawns on coastal islands have been rebalanced so starting on small off-shore islands should no longer be possible., you can see what effect this has on some previously harder spawns here:

The arrows show the old spawn pointing to the new one after this change. We still have some things we want to improve and definitely more bugs to squish so stay tuned for more patches on the horizon. Bonus Promo: If you have a spare moment, please leave us a review on Steam! This is a key metric for Steam to promote Wayward to more new/old players and helps us understand what players like/dont like about the game so we can improve it. Bonus Tip: Does using actions via the (right-click) action menu feel tedious? Add them to your action bar instead! Simply click on an action slot to bind an action to it. Some good starting actions to set up in each slot is Chop, Mine, Butcher, Start Fire, and Stoke Fire. These slots will automatically use the best tool or item for the job in your inventory.

New

Departing an island with a lit lighthouse on it now adds a bonus to your travel range.
You can now put "drop all" in an action slot to drop every item in your inventory. (Up to what fills the tile.)

Improvements

Removed messages, action, and item actions from the menu bar for a simplified new user experience and better compatibility for lower resolutions/higher interface scaling.
Improved the appearance of the crafting/dismantle dialog tabs.
Dialog titles now display their current keybinding.
Tweaked the UI for when the game is paused to hopefully make it easier to tell that the game is paused, and what to do to unpause.
Merchants will now never stock past 75% of their weight. (Thanks Gyuri (kustox)!)
Increased maximum width of tooltips on low resolutions, and reduced maximum width of tooltips on high resolutions, to result in a more consistent tooltip size overall.
Improved the readability of the island name/arrival text on small resolution/higher interface scaling.
Dialog titles now display their icons.
The warning when crafting with items that may break is now disabled by default for a better new player experience.
Improved the default column size in category/skill views in the crafting dialog when using interface scales above 1.
You can now dismount boats when over top of corpses.
Some creatures now count as a fire source when being comforted while resting/sleeping.
Updated some outdated areas of the help menu.
Older UI buttons now use the same click sound effect as newer UI buttons.

Balance

Player spawns on coastal islands have been rebalanced so starting on small off-shore islands should no longer be possible.
Standing by heat sources will now increase the chance of healing the frostbite status, but may also hurt you further if the heat source is too hot.
Decreased skeleton difficulty.
Hobgoblins, acid spitter demons, ice elementals, and dryads now have blunt damage vulnerability while increasing/adding their resistance to slashing or piercing.
Increased the rarity of x3/x4 thirst/hunger challenges and increased their difficulty rating in challenge mode.

Bug Fixes

Fixed nearby items not being usable with the action bar.
Fixed a save corruption leading to the game not loading correctly. (Thanks mathematico!)
Fixed filtering not being applied to new items.
Potentially fixed mod bindings, actions, and other mod registrations not loading or overlapping in certain situations. (Thanks , Hiran, Lilac, and Umbra Animo!)
Fixed tattered map tiles flickering every turn.
Fixed "slotted in action bar" icons sometimes getting stuck on items.
Fixed field of view flickering in multiplayer.
Fixed subtitle spacing on lower interface scaling. (Thanks Heart!)
Fixed action bar add/remove buttons appearing far out from the rest of the action slots.
Fixed errors when traveling to a new island. (Thanks Torrin and wolfram!)
Fixed field of view/lighting-related multiplayer desyncs.
Fixed "Drop All" and "Drop All of Quality" actions only being slottable when operating on an exact item.
Fixed being able to drop things where not allowed using the "Drop Items at Feet When Facing Tile is Blocked" option.
Fixed the "Drop" actions not displaying a red message and preventing use when there's something in the way.
Fixed "Drop All (of Quality)" not dropping the correct quality. (Thanks King Smidgens!)
Fixed "Drop" actions not displaying a red message and preventing use when the item(s) don't fit in a container.
Fixed multiple styling issues relating to input/dropdown menus in dialogs.
Fixed being able to load the mods menu before all mods are initialized.
Fixed UI quadrant changes resetting when rejoining a server.
Fixed merchant/shipper container dialogs staying open after the NPC dies.
Fixed action slots incorrectly appearing as though they had no action bound in some cases. (Thanks Petalwing!)
Fixed renderer not updating correctly for other players when moving to/from caves.
Fixed text describing a book not using the same format as other book description text. (Thanks !)
Message conversions/upgrades now happen for all players (even disconnected ones) on the save.
Fixed being able to enter screenshot mode when in the pause menu.
Fixed pressing escape no longer exiting screenshot mode.
Fixed the message UI getting squished when starting a game with it in the top right quadrant.
Fixed dialog/container sort selection not being saved for clients in multiplayer games.
Fixed some issues with how native scaling is handled.
Fixed the crafting dialog being blank when joining a multiplayer game that is paused.
Fix the action bar moving to the bottom left when the messages are switched to a dialog.
Fixed the title bar not showing when you're using the development branch.
Fixed the back button on mods overlapping text if the description was too big.
Fixed a few embeds in the news menu displaying as links.
Fixed ports in the islands dialog having an unintentional extra white line underneath them.

Technical

Fixed some seeded generators sharing internal state objects.

Modding

Improved the file generation/updating of "+mod create" and "+mod update" to hopefully result in less stumbling points for new modders.

Mods

Fixed issues when attempting to paint tiles. (Thanks Smogginal Dorksfurth!)
You can now apply and remove status effects on players/NPCs.

Updated item recipes to not require magical bindings.
Items are now created after enabling the mod on an existing save.
Is no longer considered a cheat mod.
Reduced durability/power of given items (so they aren't as cheaty).

TARS

Now takes into account a creature's difficulty/tier when deciding if it should attack or run away.
Fixed issues related to running away from creatures when trying to rest.
Fixed a game freeze when too many items are on the ground.

Wayward Major Update Beacon's Call Released!

Added two new options for disabling NPC and creature attacking.

[ 2023-05-15 05:11:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

Multiplayer Meetup #8

Join us for the next "Multiplayer Meetup" taking place on Thursday, May 11th, 7:30 PM PDT. Steam will convert this to your local time above or on the right sidebar and will notify you when it happens if you hit the "Set a reminder" button. This time around we will be trying to survive in the arid biome with some other modifiers sprinkled in, and no cheating this time! Traveling will be disabled. Respawning will be enabled as it's a bit rough for players who are not arid experts. To join, simply look for the server in the multiplayer menu in-game for the game(s) named: "Multiplayer Meetup #8" at the date/time noted above. As always, we will be streaming the meetup at Twitch.

What if that day/time doesn't work for me?

Feel free to schedule some multiplayer game(s) with other people from the community as close to this time as possible in order to gather the most interest and people. Join the conversation in our #multiplayer or #wayward channels via Discord. Different dates/times may be chosen next time.

What about latency/ping?

This is a west-coast, Canada-based server, so the latency may not be great for everybody. Depending on the interest and turnout, some other players from our community might also be hosting their own servers and game(s) in their own regions that you can join. Check your ping in-game by entering "/ping" (without quotes) in the chat.

How does multiplayer work in Wayward?

Learn more about multiplayer here: https://www.waywardgame.com/multiplayer

[ 2023-05-09 15:23:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

Wayward players, it's time to answer the call of the beacon! The highly anticipated update is finally here and promises to guide you to new horizons and adventures. After our last major release being the largest update to date, we thought we would scale back this time around and offer another pretty beefy update, but without such a long wait between the releases. Our last one was 280 days between the major releases, but this one clocks in at 218 days instead. We hope to keep this pace up in the future, and hopefully even faster; we always seem to get carried away. Some stand-out features from this release include:

Added the concept of "ports" and lighthouses for mass island-to-island transfer and faster travel.
Added wooden bookcases that can hold books for added benefits.
Added tamed creature commands that unlock new behaviors as skill increases and creatures are tamed multiple times.
Added a new magical golem creature, crafted out of various and sometimes rare resources.
Creatures now have a combat strength and danger level, shown in their tooltip.
Added cages for picking up creatures for easy travel (and possibly shipment) of tamed creatures.
Added various rare gems for unique recipes and trading value.
Weapons and armor can now have a variable range of bonus damage and base defense based on their quality. Creatures have been rebalanced with this in mind.

You can preview some of these changes in the below video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv-pJnjPUw0 This release has been pretty content or feature-heavy compared to previous updates, but there are still plenty of performance and quality-of-life updates sprinkled in as well. Check them all out below:

New

Added the concept of "ports" and lighthouses for mass island-to-island transfer and faster travel.

Added wooden bookcases that can hold books for added benefits.

Added tamed creature commands that unlock new behaviors as skill increases and creatures are tamed multiple times.

Added a new magical golem creature, crafted out of various and sometimes rare resources.

Creatures now have a combat strength and danger level, shown in their tooltip.

Added cages for picking up creatures for easy travel (and possibly shipment) of tamed creatures.
Added various rare gems for unique recipes and trading value.
Weapons and armor can now have a variable range of bonus damage and base defense based on their quality. Creatures have been rebalanced with this in mind.
Players can now select a title to use from completed milestones. For example: Drathy (Boundless), or Drathy (Reaper of Souls).
Added a new skill bonus magical property found on doodads.
Added the new milestone Versatile, requiring the discovery of creatures' vulnerabilities and resistances.
Added the "Retailer" milestone which unlocks instant merchant spawning at the cost of the merchant cap being halved.
Added the "Masochist" milestone allows every creature to spawn regardless of reputation or biome.
Added a new "glowing" magical property.
Added new "cold" and "heat" damage-type magical properties.
Added an item decay notifier that will pop up an icon when items are decaying in a container or tile.
Added a new crafting sort that will only display craftable items (unless filtering).
Rather than all vulnerabilities and resistances being visible based on your anatomy skill, individual vulnerabilities and resistances are now discovered as you engage in combat with creatures.
Merchants now call out to you from a distance when their inventory has changed.
Added two new books.
Added a button to toggle all "use when moving" actions that only appears when you've set some up.
Added item movement animations for chest-to-chest movement, grab all, and when moving multiple items.
Added an animation for the "Set Down" action.
Added a new jumping animation.
Implemented player and server name filtering.
Added a "/noclip" command.

Improvements

Protected items that can be damaged can no longer be used via action slots if they could break on use.
Redesigned the creature tooltip to match the style of the item tooltip and display additional information.
Protected equipped items now unequip automatically if they are about the break.
You can no longer equip protected items that would break on damage.
Doodads now show their civilization score in their tooltip.
You can now swap tiles with friendly NPCs.
Added a "Remember UI State for New Saves" option - enabling this allows newly created saves to re-use your previous game's UI state (element/dialog positions) instead of the default state.
Replaced the popup confirmation on dangerous movement with your character instead bouncing back and stopping with audio queues, requiring you to press the input a second time to confirm that you want to move dangerously.
Added an option for smooth zooming.
Some tooltips around the game now have subtitles for important classification information about the thing you're inspecting.
Added more information to merchant tooltips.
Fog of war now transitions smoothly.
You can now double click on containers, maps, books, and bottles to open them.
Transferring items with the "quick move" keybinds now transfers to the last container you interacted with.
Gloves and other hand equipment now have a "harvest" action.
Contextual actions (for example, the actions for the doodad, creature, or NPC you're facing) are now placed in the top of the actions menu.
Skills and stats now show what they increased from and to.
Improve UX of tamed creature interactions.
Improved game start/load time by 40%.
Reduced file size and saving times.
Improved general game performance.
Improved performance when picking up chests with many items or doing other actions that involved moving many items around.
Improved general UI performance.
Improved performance of UI-based item updates, especially with bulk interactions such as crafting dialog updates, "move" and "drop" all actions and more.
Improved performance of the messages UI component when the message history is large.
Improved performance of opening containers with many items, or moving many items in containers.
Improved the performance of some milestone inspections.
Sorting crafts by category or skill will now show in columns and will now be sorted by name within each section. The positions of each craft will be static and feature a white border for visibility. This will be the new default view.
Improved default positionings and sizes of some dialogs.
All actions now have descriptions.
Zero damage events from creatures are now always shown for the player via the overhead notifier.
The "Island" in the multiplayer game menu now simply shows what the starting island is.
Improved readability of books by making sure notes/descriptions and book text is differentiated visually.
NPC tooltips no longer say their names when they haven't been met yet.
Message log filter editing has been improved, now displaying previews and tooltips on messages to help assist in creating ideal filters. Made the "All" filter and source both editable to reduce confusion.
Messages from previous turns are now faded out slightly.
You can now resize the equipment dialog to be a single vertical column.
Some tree cones can now be used as kindling.
Minecarts now appear as though their wheels are spinning when moving.
Opened chest and merchant dialogs will now remember to reopen when loading a game.
The "open container" action now specifies the container that will be opened in its name.
Improved how older translations appear in the message log.
The sail button in the islands dialog now provides a detailed action tooltip, providing reasons why you can't currently sail.
The Wayward version name text will no longer be impacted by UI scale.
Spawned creatures from items should prefer the tile you interacted with, and moving outwards instead of completely random within 3x3.
All items are now contained within at least one group.
Small item sprites are now shown on items that change their display graphic (like for tattered maps for example).
Reorganized the order of actions in the action menu to be more in line with normal/common/frequent use.
Protected items can no longer be used in any action that consumes or destroys the item.
Real-time games now load paused and no longer tick instantly. (Thanks Hiran!)
Reduced audio delay for UI sound effects.
Newer dialogs now display a highlight animation when trying to open them while they're already open.
Other players can now swap positions with tamed creatures when PVP is disabled.
Messages are now grouped by turn.

Balance

Relic items can now have some magical properties upgraded past their normal limits.
Damage mitigation from parrying is now less randomized, leading to more overall damage blocked.
Damage for creatures attacking other creatures now takes into account their defense vulnerability and resistances.
"Hard" night-time spawns now start at -8000 reputation instead of -4000.
Sailing to civilization now resets your reputation.
Some creatures can now rarely damage items on the ground.
Reduced the delay after jumping slightly, allowing faster travel than normal movement.
Reduced monster spawn rate slightly.
When two creatures fight, their damage will now be reduced against each other when compared against players (since their attack values are balanced for players).
Importing a save game with more crafting recipes unlocked than are saved globally no longer automatically unlocks them for all saved games.
Thrown weapon damage has been reduced. Slung items are unaffected by this change.
Increased negative reputation given through lumberjacking, woodworking and blacksmithing.
Increased shark difficulty.
Increased the damage of non-weapon thrown items slightly (based on the weight of the item).
Shovels no longer have the "harvest" action and double axes have had their harvest tier reduced.

Bug Fixes

Fixed being able to repair some doodads that should have had repairability disabled. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed being able to gather water/drink under boats. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed "enter" not working for sending messages if the "Unfocus After Sending Message" option is disabled.
Fixed being able to use the navigate action without having a sextant. (Thanks DatSheepTho!)
Fixed errors when planting seeds under certain conditions. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed the "Unlock All Crafting Recipes" and "Reset Unlocked Crafting Recipes" buttons not working properly while not having a saved game loaded.
Fixed 'may cause burns' craft action prompt not working multiplayer.
Fixed "swamp" water being referred to as "sea" in treasure map riddles. (Thanks Shim Panz III!)
Fixed a failure to load saved games with unloaded modded items. (Thanks Captain Tofu!)
Fixed a failure to save games due to an issue with merchant NPCs.
Fixed being able to equip/unequip/swap items while the game is paused.
Fixed dual-wielding only using the primary hand's damage types. (Thanks King Smidgens!)
Fixed being able to drag equipment slot icons.
Fixed being able to rest/sleep when there was an NPC/untamed creature standing on you.
Fixed the "Grab All" button not respecting the filter text. (Thanks !)
Fixed NPC being able to duplicate. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed Starter Quest not showing the "Welcome" quest when starting a new game after quitting a previous game. (Thanks Wolpertinger!)
Fixed doodads that broke on a tile not copying all properties back into the item that drops (and deleting all of their contents if it was a container).
Fixed only a single challenge getting assigned in "Challenge" mode.
Fixed inaccuracies in bartering prices. (Thanks Captain Tofu!)
Fixed being able to reveal fog as a ghost in "Casual Mode".
Fixed some actions being usable incorrectly.
Fixed creatures being able to spawn on the same tile as players in rare instances.
Fixed the temperature system forgetting the calculated temperature of some tiles incorrectly, causing temperature to be recalculated too often.
Fixed being able to end up in objects after traveling.
Fixed tooltip memory leaks.
Fixed digging dirt in certain biomes producing incorrect tiles, resources and water types.
Fixed input sequences as action bindings not working if the first keystroke is a movement key.
At some point, an unknown change fixed the character rapidly changing direction when two opposing direction keys were simultaneously pressed. That change caused the character to continue in the same direction, which was not intended, and now has been fixed. Are you still reading this?
Fixed creatures not losing interest when dealing no damage to another creature after some time (unless in attack mode).
Fixed slow saves due to large amounts of merchants.
Fixed multiple swamp water puddles not producing tiles. (Thanks Hiran!)
Fixed a rare issue where items could stay on your cursor when using the drop bind after starting a drag on an item. (Thanks Davnell!)
Fixed minimum sizes for dialogs not accounting for the native scale factor.
Fixed puddles not freezing properly.
Fixed neutral creatures not attacking tamed creatures back.
Fixed magical trap damage happening twice for players.
Fixed opening doodad containers not opening in a unique dialog position. (Thanks Ratha Wynter!)
Fixed multiple actions not being usable with items in protected containers. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed seawater always overtaking swamp water. (Thanks psusi!)
Fixed some fire-related errors.
Fixed thirst reducing too quickly. (Hotfixed) (Thanks Kadrak!)
Fixed magical skill properties on items not getting upgraded properly. (Thanks Anketam!)
Fixed randomly dropped completed tattered map items sometimes being maps that a player has drawn.
Fixed the "open container" action not being available when facing a merchant with a trade dialog open or a doodad container with the container dialog open. (Thanks Gyuri (kustox)!)
Fixed dismount/ride and attack being bound to the same key by default. (Thanks Vallivanting!)
Fixed swapping your weapons not working sometimes.
Fixed jumping not working correctly at high strength levels. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed some tattered map riddle grammar. (Thanks DatSheepTho!)
Fixed 'Grab All' not showing moved item messages.
Fixed some items decaying into other items with incorrect starting decay values.
Fixed losing a turn when dismounting minecarts and boats. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed not being able to dismount from a vehicle if there's an item on the tile. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed not being able to press shift to display "Hidden Unless Holding" tooltips outside of the main game (options, main menu, etc.)
Fixed butchering lava beetles releasing lava before the corpse is fully carved.
Fixed stamina reduction happening when exiting vehicles. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed creatures not leaving fire when they were being attacked.
Fixed NPCs not emitting light from their torches.
Fixed doodad containers not saving their position or sort order/direction.
Fixed skeletons collapsing and duplicating themselves. (Thanks daily vlog!)
Fixed dragging an equipped item out of the equipment dialog not making the previous spot look ghost-like.
Fixed "Close Container" being present in the action menu when an inventory container was opened. (Thanks Gyuri (kustox)!)
Fixed keeping your inventory items when dying while traveling (after respawning). (Thanks King Smidgens!)
Fixed a rare issue where you could continue moving automatically after a save was loaded if the game saved while moving down tracks. (Thanks Gyuri (kustox)!)
Fixed failure to damage creatures when attacking not giving skill/reputation. (Thank Gyuri (kustox)!)
Fixed some UI quadrants/positions for HUD elements shifting incorrectly.
Fixed ghosts not being able to spawn on applicable certain tiles.
Fixed 'Invalid serializer island chain' errors when saving. (Thanks Jesus05!)
Fixed issues revealing fog of war after traveling. (Thanks josephgbryan!)
Fixed item names in tooltips not reflecting tattered map status.
Fixed lava beetles not spawning on tiles on fire.
Fixed various errors that could occur when doing things near the edge of the world.
Fixed loading a multiplayer game set to "Simulated Turns" not pausing by default.
Fixed "Server Shutting Down" errors when attempting to connect to a server.
Fixed a save conversion/upgrade error.
Fixed mouse tooltips not having padding between them and the cursor.
Fixed undiscovered islands in the islands dialog not having a tooltip.
Fixed multiplayer clients sometimes timing out during island travel.
Fixed multiplayer desyncs related to "Alter" and "Exude" actions.
Fixed multiplayer desyncs related to opening chests that were on fire.
Fixed navigating through the in-game help leading to an inescapable greyed-out screen. (Thanks Dub!)
Fixed newly discovered crafts not showing up with highlighted color (yellow) if they couldn't be crafted.
Fixed merchants not getting the proper equipment in some biomes.
Fixed pathing issues for tamed creatures that can break doodads.
Fixed reloading the game deleting messages past 50.
Fixed reorganising menu bar buttons making the button icons go waaaay off to the left.
Fixed slimes producing a sound and message stating they combined when they maybe didn't.
Fixed some action tooltips with contextual names displaying duplicate action icons. (Thanks !)
Fixed some links not working correctly in the help menu.
Fixed some ores/mountain resources not generating correctly on some biomes.
Fixed item notifiers not showing the correct item types for the displayable item system (like those used with tattered maps).
Fixed menu bar button keybindings sometimes not working when the menu bar is hidden.
Fixed the win/death screens being blurry.
Fixed alpha not working correctly for overlays.
Fixed tamed mudskippers/fish blocking/freezing path to tile on occasion.
Fixed old or server saves showing an empty thumbnail.
Fixed temperature changes happening one turn later.
Fixed the default crafting/inventory/container view/sort not being selected properly when first loading a game.
Fixed the endurance magical property being applied incorrectly in some instances. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fixed the first message that would appear to be invisible if it had no source type.
Fixed the game save tooltip reporting an incorrect save size when loading two saves consecutively.
Fixed throwing items not showing usage errors in tooltips. (Thanks Hiran!)
Fixed tooltip visibility options other than the default (hold shift to show more information) not being applied when loading the game.
Fixed the crafting dialog title being an incorrect size when changing interface scale.
Fixed some news formatting issues.

Technical

Running Wayward on the Steam Deck will now use the native Linux client by default instead of Proton.
Upgraded the pseudo-random algorithm for new islands to reduce artifacts and increase performance.
Hard crashes are now logged and dumped into a "crashes" folder in the main Wayward directory for diagnosis.
Improved rendering performance of multiple viewports.
Updated to Electron to version 22.3.5.

Modding

Breakpoints are now more useful for us and modders when developer tools are enabled, if the game hasn't been able to run the input (keyboard/mouse) loop in over a second, it considers all buttons "un-pressed." This prevents getting keys stuck down if you triggered a breakpoint while moving or holding an action slot button down, for example.
Improved moddability of creatures, allowing special attacks to be set in creature descriptions.
The "+mod" commands now default to working with the current directory if a directory was not provided.
Added more commonly used revision control software folders to the ignore list when uploading mods. (Thanks !)
Fixed some documentation. (Thanks Amax!)

Mods

Introducing "Magicology", a mod that adds mana, magic wands, spells, and summonable creatures.

You can now inspect items with right-click. The item inspector now supports modifying durability/decay, and viewing contents (for item containers.)
Added an option in the game end screen to "revert death," which restores your inventory and equipped items along with a heal.
Fixed the heal action not healing the frostbite status effect.
Added a "decay" bulk item action.
Fixed durability bars not working and tooltips being inaccurate after using bulk actions to set durability higher than normal.
Added a new "Temperature" panel, listing some global temperature information and providing multiple overlays for tile-based temperature.
Fixed missing FOV updates when placing templates & updating growing stages.
Fixed spawning particles and sound effects not working.
Fixed setting "All" skills not working.
Fixed the game freezing when fully zooming out
FOV is now updated when painting tiles.
You can now teleport onto tiles with non-blockable things on them.
You can now set skills up to 200%.
FOV transition is now removed when toggling fog.
The tame button now keeps creatures tamed forever.

TARS

Will now run away further from creatures when trying to sleep.
Fixed TARS taking a long time thinking about what to do.
Fixed attempting to fish on improper tiles/spots.
Won't fish near sharks when they can't handle sharks.
Fixed attempting to perform actions after leaving a game.
Fixed hoarding water stills in their inventory instead of placing them down.
Fixed forgetting to desalinate seawater after gathering water.
Fixed trying to place things over tracks.
Fixed some memory issues related to the 'Debug Logging' option.

Development Branch Warning

Added the ability to select the quality of the equipment created.

Bacons Call

[ 2023-05-06 16:55:51 CET ] [ Original post ]

If you are on the development branch, please ensure your important saves and global save data are backed up. Due to some upstream changes in the platform we use, we need to revert the version we use. Doing so will delete/remove all save data in the game. By default, your saves and global save data (options, milestones, etc.) are backed up automatically (the last 10 versions), but only if they are newer saves (May 4th, 2021 and newer). If they are older saves, you will need to load and save them to produce the automatic back-ups, or simply export the save(s) you want to keep. These automatic back-ups are located in the main Wayward folder under "backup". In most cases, these will be all you need to re-import once the change occurs. More information on save importing/exporting and back-ups is available here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2854947692 Archiving/copying the "save" directory in the Wayward folder will not work! Everything will need to be re-imported manually after this change occurs. Once the change happens, your Wayward game will not load. This is intentional so nobody loses their saves if they have not seen this warning. To fix this, ensure you have everything backed up that you need as written above, open the "launch_options.json" file and edit the "internalVersion" from "2" to "3". After saving, the game will launch normally. If you did not see this warning in time, and you don't have all the backups you need, please reach out. We will help you on a case-by-case basis and will likely need you to send us your entire "save" directory. To re-iterate, the steps you need to take are the following if you are reading this and are playing on the development branch: 1. Start the game. 2. Load any game you wish to keep. Save and quit that game. Repeat this for all saves. 3. Ensure everything is looking good in the "backups" folder. 4. Play the development branch as normal until the change occurs. 5. Once the change occurs, the game will no longer open. This is when you change the "internalVersion" from "2" to "3" as mentioned above. 6. Start the game and re-import your global save data and any save games as per the guide link above. Let me know if you have any questions!

[ 2023-04-07 22:59:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

Development Branch Update

The time has come once again. The development branch has been updated with the yet-to-be-named pre-release version of the "next" major update. This means you can play (and test out) all the new upcoming features and improvements. Take it for a spin if you feel like living on the bleeding edge. We have shared a few videos on some of the new features so far, including: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw-7Uq_jMCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxNVjZ4kMWY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=815TAnPPKF8 Some other notable features include:

Added tamed creature commands that unlock new behaviors as skill increases and creatures are tamed multiple times.
Added various rare gems for unique recipes and trading value.
Added a new magical golem creature, crafted out of various and sometimes rare resources.
Weapons and armor can now have a variable range of bonus damage and base defense based on their quality. Creatures have been rebalanced with this in mind.

But if you really want to see all of what's going on so far, you can check the in-game changelog or view our Trello for a more technical breakdown:https://trello.com/b/PWX1Hpjn/wayward-todo - Look in the "Beta 2.13 "Next"" column. As always, we would encourage you to back up your saves before trying this development branch of the game. By default, you can find your backups and save folders in the main Wayward directory. You can also export saves and global save data in-game if needed. More information on how to change branches here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=721479594 Report any issues you find, and let us know if you have any naming ideas! More news to come!

[ 2023-03-11 02:43:14 CET ] [ Original post ]

Wheels & Wetlands Update #3

Hey all, Hope you are enjoying/enjoyed your holidays! Heres what will likely be the last update/minor patch in this series as we have already begun to work extensively on the next major update. Onwards and wayward into the next year! Stay tuned for more news! Bonus Tip: If you are ever unsure about what exactly each action tier does on a tool, for example, Mining III, you can inspect the item (by default, using Shift+Right Click when hovering an item), and hover over each of the actions and tiers to get information on what this affects. Bonus Promo: Dr. Incompetent recently put together a playthrough of Wayward on their channel including a beginners guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpYMG_4V-dY

On with the changelog:

Improvements

Added filter support to the actions drawer.
Added a new message when killing a merchant.
The "inapplicable" headings in the actions drawer now specify that the following actions are inapplicable with the item you have selected.
Improved performance when gathering, harvesting, dismantling, disassembling and other actions that can give you multiple items in one turn.
Creatures will now swap positions with players if they are on a cave entrance when they ascend or descend if not tamed.
Increased save back-up amount from 5 to 10.
Updated the "Crafting" help article to include more information on success chances and new tooltip/efficacy bonuses.

Balance

Attacking merchants directly or through the use of tamed creatures will impact reputation similarly to attacking other players.
Reduced amount of thirst gained when poisoned slightly.
Reduced amount of thirst gained over time but increased it while encumbered/overburdened.
Reduced durability of boats slightly.
Reduced the base defense of snow walkers.

Bug Fixes

Fixed game-freezing issues caused by completing or dismantling tattered maps. (Thanks synchc!)
Fixed the Steam Deck not launching Wayward properly.
Fixed Wayward not launching from Steam on newer distros/versions of Linux. (Thanks Voklov!)
Fixed not being able to slot most item actions in action slots unless you have an applicable item for them.
Fixed "you cannot do that" messages not displaying for the read map action.
Fixed creatures not going up and down cave entrances when they couldn't naturally spawn on the current biome.
Fixed trees with snow being able to melt into a near-infinite amount of puddles when travelling.
Fixed player's reputations being affected by merchant's death outside of their control/interaction. (Thanks sechsauge!)
Fixed weight bonus not showing as a custom modifier in the pause menu when set to +50.
Fixed changing a binding closing all sections in the bindings menu. (Thanks dawn_h_35!)
Fixed errors when unloading mods that added new world layers, such as Troposphere.
Fixed being able to paste formatted HTML into the chat box.
Fixed extinguishing equipped torches when getting off boats from non-shallow water to land or moving vehicle-to-vehicle.
Fixed merchants being able to be killed twice in the same turn.
Actually fixed the blank pause menu issue. (Thanks Valdig!)
Fixed enhancing items not using thaumaturgy.
Fixed "Turns" not showing up for game saves on the Steam Workshop.
Fixed errors when attempting to travel to islands with bugged merchants.
Fixed the "Unfocus After Sending Message" option adding an extra line to the message bar or not working at all. (Thanks !)
Fixed action slots showing the incorrect item in the tooltip when disassembling containers. (Thanks !)
Fixed tinkering being used in cases where other skills should be used when refining or reinforcing. (Thanks Anketam!)

Technical

Updated to Electron 22.0.0.

Mods

TARS

Fixed not being able to gather treasure from water.
Will now build more than 3 water stills when needed.

[ 2022-12-29 20:27:29 CET ] [ Original post ]

Winter Sale + Regional Price Change Notice

Since our initial release in 2016 on Steam, we have kept our regional prices the same without change regardless of conversion/exchange rate and other economic changes. Since our release, we have put out 12 major releases, and 65 minor releases. A lot has changed in-game, and out-of-game in these regions. Going forward, since Steam has made a commitment to update regional prices more consistently, we are considering moving to these recommendations. If you use USD currency, there will be no changes for you. Other regional prices will either go up or down. On other storefronts, Wayward already must use each storefronts regional pricing, so it only makes sense that we follow it consistently across all platforms, now including Steam. We are not economists and we believe we should not be in charge of dictating regional conversion rates on our end. This change would take place after the current "Winter Sale", so you will not only have a chance to grab the game at the same price for your region but also at a discounted price (Wayward is -30% off right now). https://store.steampowered.com/app/379210/Wayward/ More news on the next major release coming soon! As always, thank you for your support over these many years.

[ 2022-12-23 00:04:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Multiplayer Meetup #7

Join us for the next "Multiplayer Meetup" taking place on Saturday, November 26th, 7:30 PM PST. Steam will convert this to your local time above or on the right sidebar and will notify you when it happens if you hit the "Set a reminder" button. This time around we will be "enjoying" the ice cap biome by staving off frostbite. But hey, at least there's unlimited snow to eat. Don't worry about the yellow snow, that's just medicinal water. It may be a bit challenging; however, respawning will be enabled. To join, simply look for the server in the multiplayer menu in-game for the game(s) named: "Multiplayer Meetup #7" at the date/time noted above. As always, we will be streaming the meetup at Twitch.

What if that day/time doesn't work for me?

What about latency/ping?

How does multiplayer work in Wayward?

Learn more about multiplayer here: https://www.waywardgame.com/multiplayer

[ 2022-11-23 23:32:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

Wheels & Wetlands Update #2

Hey all, We have a minor update ready tonight to start off this weekend. This release primarily focuses on bug fixes and smaller UI/UX improvements. Review the changelog below for more details! Bonus Promo: Thank you to those who recently left a review for Wayward. This helps us reach more potential players and supporters! If you have a few minutes, please leave a review and rate any reviews you find helpful! Bonus Tip: Wells do not require an underground/cave lake to function (although this is definitely preferred). You can place them in many locations and receive fresh water over time. You can even place multiple of them to get more fresh water quicker. Use a rope to Test Depth on wells to tell if you have adequate water coming into the well.

New

Redesigned the attack tooltip, adding in damage types, range attack info, and fixing misc issues.

Added a tooltip delay option.

Improvements

Indecipherable and completed tattered maps now appear in the inventory with different graphics. (Thanks TheBlackHand!)

Completed tattered maps that are part of a different island will no longer be called "indecipherable." (Thanks Setbu!)
Clicking on the "also bound to" icon in the bindings menu now filters to the specific input rather than the bindables also bound to that input, and the filter now updates as you rebind them, allowing you to more easily fix incompatibilities.
Tweaked some actions to be discovered by default like starting/stoking fire and butcher and removed eat/drink/rename.
Reduced splash screen time.
You can now choose to only show tooltips if you're holding the "show more information" binding.
Dual Wielding now has a reputation impact and can increase strength. (Thanks Kalako!)
Cleaned up the UX around configuring the craft action in the action bar. (Thanks !)
Drawing maps now has more delay to prevent performance issues and accidentally redrawing the same terrain. (Thanks !)
The player now uses their right hand for their main hand but can be toggled with a new gameplay setting.
Improved the "Item Qualities" help article. (Thanks !)
Stored item insulation is now referred to as that in item tooltips.

Balance

Equippable containers (like backpacks) now have equipped insulation values.
Skeletons are now resistant to fire instead of vulnerable to it.
You can no longer see merchant stats in complete detail.

Bug Fixes

Fixed drop/move actions not getting discovered. (Thanks Kalako!)
Fixed items not receiving the proper red decayed/damaged when picking them up. (Thanks !)
Fixed interrupts sometimes continuously opening when in multiplayer games.
Fixed errors related to scarecrows. (Thanks Jon!)
Fixed the inventory remaining greyed out after using an action slot while hovering over an item that gets destroyed or dropped. (Thanks !)
Fixed the rename interrupt not closing after first opening it with an action slot set to "Rename" via a hotkey, then using "Rename" again via the action menu.
Fixed context menus eating inputs for a short time due to animations.
Fixed items refined down to have 0/0 durability displaying with an extremely long durability bar. (Thanks Dirty Protagonist!)
Fixed the "Inspect in Dialog" hint showing when there are no inspections visible on a tile and the "Always Show More Information" option is enabled.
Fixed the news menu not correctly removing changelogs from news posts in favour of redirecting to the changelog menu.
Fixed the message for pouring water on plants never saying when the plant is fully healed. (Thanks !)
Fixed milestones with lists of discoveries not showing that you can inspect them for more information. (Thanks !)
Fixed action slots staying highlighted after pressing it and quickly moving your cursor off of it. (Thanks !)
Fixed some issues when preferring a lens over other fire-starting devices. (Thanks Ratha Wynter!)
Fixed the game displaying "you can now combat the tides" and unlocking the islands dialog upon collecting a minecart. (Thanks !)
Fixed coconut container of purified fresh water spilling into medicinal puddles.
Fixed copy action slot bind not always working.
Fixed incorrect temperatures being used for item decay/melting when inside containers.
Fixed a rare action-related multiplayer desync.
Fixed the possibility of temperature not properly updating after a fire decays.
Fixed temperature status effects being delayed in multiplayer & real-time mode games.
Fixed errors when changing languages while in-game. (Thanks !)
Fixed not all quest requirements being visible in the quest dialog. (Thanks !)
Fixed multiple tile quality issues including a case where the quality of a tile would get removed if other tiles were placed on top of it.
Fixed indecipherable tattered maps not appearing with "indecipherable" in their name after travelling.
Fixed niter not having any worth. (Thanks ChiriVulpes!)
Fixed "Warn When Breaking Items" not working when dismantling through action menus.
Fixed errors showing when hovering status effect icons in the Inspect dialog when inspecting the player. (Thanks !)
Lists of items now only display a single item icon for the last listed quality. (Thanks Kalako!)
Fixed occasional pathing issues for walk to tile & tamed creatures.
Fixed some spacing issues with the input clear button and with the gap between some expandable sections.
Fixed not being able to correctly search for input sequences and inputs with modifiers in the bindings menu.
Fixed an error when inspecting an NPC or the player in a dialog. (Thanks Laura!)
Fixed action submenus appearing as undiscovered with no way to be discovered.
Fixed unknown/broken items (for example ones added by removed mods) causing errors.
Fixed actions in item inspections not showing as discovered. (Thanks !)
Fixed issues when enabling/disabling the same mod installed via Steam Workshop and locally. (Thanks !)
Fixed blank option menus showing. (Thanks Valdig!)
Fixed items stacking into a pile incorrectly.
Fixed changelog images being pixelated when resized.
Fixed some button/choice prompts displaying incorrectly.
Updated to old/incorrect information in the Starter Quest. (Thanks !)
"Focus Previous" will now default to Ctrl+Tab instead of Shift+Tab due to Steam Overlay conflicts. (Thanks !)
Fixed refining allowing 0 durability. (Thanks Dirty Protagonist!)

Technical

Updated Electron to 21.3.0.

Mods

Wheels & Wetlands Update #1

All places where you could add items to containers now renders the full list of items and supports the clear items action, a bulk durability editor, etc.
Invulnerable mode now only prevents death, rather than preventing all damage and creatures from attacking you.
You can now modify all skills at once.

TARS

Improved performance.

[ 2022-11-19 02:28:58 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hot off the heels of our largest major update to date, heres our largest minor update to date! In this one we smoothed out some problem areas we have discovered with the action slot system - making it more streamlined, but just as powerful. This update also rebalances how clay and metals work, allowing metallurgic endeavors to be easier and more possible on the coastal island biome (or the starting island). Another exciting piece of news is that Wayward is now considered Playable on the Steam Deck. There are a few issues Valve and us have been working on behind the scenes to get a better experience for the game, including some things in this update. Its not 100%, but its just as the status implies, playable. Stay tuned for more! Its likely we will be moving on to the next major update after this release with possible bug-fix-only minor patches in the future as new issues arise. Bonus Promo: Evan of RetroMMO recently had me on RetroChat, regarding Wayward. Check out the edited VOD here if you are wanting to learn about some Wayward development lore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcSGYnH3XsA Bonus Tip: You can automatically use actions in your action bar when moving, similar to the old feature where you could enable automatic gathering; however, this can be done with any action including things like dismantling, firing a bow, taming, and more! This feature is unlocked after discovering (and using) 20 actions. Simply hover over an action slot and hit Left Alt (by default), or configure the slot and check Use When Moving.

New

Added animations for item interactions such as dropping, picking up, stoking fire, building, and more.
Added animation effects for tool-based actions such as gathering and starting fire.
The time in days that you and other players have spent on each island now displays in the islands dialog.
Players enter faster time advancement when everyone in a multiplayer server is sleeping at the same time.
Added unique structures and spawns in the glaciers on the ice cap island biome.

Improvements

Most actions are now hidden from the actions drawer until they've been discovered, to avoid frontloading information on new players. You can see your progress on action discovery with the Operator milestone.
You can now extinguish lit built torches.
Significantly increased item updating performance.
Improved traveling performance.
You now unlock the ability to set action slots to be "used when moving" only when at a certain amount of progress on the Operator milestone.
A warning icon is now shown when an action slot has an item but no action. The tooltip for slots with an item but no action now shows what you can do to set an action.
Restructured the options menus. All gameplay settings are now only in the Gameplay Settings dialog, all links to gameplay settings open and highlight the dialog.
Swapped the default bindings for "configure action slot" and "use slotted item" to improve the UX for new players.
Discovered actions in the Operator milestone now display with icons and, when inspected, display with action tooltips.
Protected ammunition will not be fired if it will break.
The "Operator" milestone can now be obtained in any game mode.
Dragging an item to an action slot now automatically selects the primary use of the item, provided that exact item & action haven't already been slotted. You can turn off this feature by right-clicking on the action bar's - or + buttons.
You can now configure extra options for an action slot even if there isn't an action slotted inside it yet.
The item equipped in your offhand will now be displayed with a sword icon when it will be used to attack.
The item equipped in your offhand will now be swapped to your main hand when attacking with nothing in your main hand.
Reworked the way anchored tooltips function in order to fix many instances of tooltips going off the screen or appearing in locations where they overlap with things.
You can now drag items from the action slots to the equipment dialog to equip them, and from the equipment dialog to action slots to slot them.
The "Inspect in Dialog" hint no longer displays when no new information is revealed in the Inspect dialog. (Thanks Brobnodagain!)
Efficacy ratings of 0% will now be shown.
An arrow icon is now used to signify an input macro rather than a + to reduce confusion.
Action tooltips now display icons.
Dropdowns and context menus now have special sound effects.
The "self" inspection is no longer displayed by default for new players as all information is the same as in the static stats component.
Some action slot tooltip binding hints are now hidden when inapplicable, in order to reduce text overload.
Replaced the "remove slot" button in the actions drawer with a "clear slot" button. Added a "remove slot" button next to the "add slot" button above the action bar.
Reorganized the actions drawer, adding more information and increasing clarity.
When an action is selected and no item is slotted, the "Use Any Valid Item" choice now remains visible to better hint to new players how the action will function.
The confirm buttons in the menus are now highlighted in green.
Improved action descriptions.
Improved the appearance of unlocked quests in the Quests dialog to improve clarity. (Thanks lordhaywire!)
Dangerous buttons now appear in red even when not moused over.
When an item is slotted in an action slot, its own actions are now sorted to the top of the configuration drawer.
The close button in the actions drawer has been replaced with a highlighted "Done" button to improve usability.
The Till and Pack Ground actions now use different icons.

Balance

Clay is now more common on coastal islands and can appear under dirt and gravel, but copper is now rarer.
Replaced tin with copper in the ice cap island biome.
Reduced durability for obsidian tools and weapons but increased their tiers and damage (in some cases).
Crafting lockpicks now uses the lockpicking skill.
Containers now have varying amounts of weight reduction when held in inventory.
Modified all instances of capped action tier calculations in actions to support the maximum tier possible.
Rebalanced the preservation and insulation of bags, quivers, and backpacks.
Hostile merchants can now attack tamed creatures.
Neutral/scared creatures will no longer be hostile toward merchants.

Bug Fixes

Speculative fix for memory/crashing issues while traveling. (Thanks Deadpull!) (Thanks John!)
Fixed the sleep/rest actions not appearing in the intended actions menus when applicable. (Thanks puffletops!)
Slotting an inaccessible item now works as intended rather than the actions drawer pretending the exact item can be slotted (it can't), the actions drawer will now only display "use any x" and "use any quality x". (Thanks Deadpull!)
Fixed creatures going outside of the map edge.
Fixed grown grass tiles returning their previous tile type when gathering non-tile-changing resources. (Thanks Deadpull!)
Fixed errors occurring when using ranged actions on the map's edge. (Thanks Jon!)
Fixed preservation chance not appearing on some containers (and not being able to get magical properties as a result). (Thanks TheBlackHand!)
Fixed "rest on ground" and "sleep on ground" appearing in the actions menu when able to rest/sleep with a doodad.
Fixed some dialogs always showing in the top left on a new game, when traveling, or respawning. (Thanks Gin Ikino!)
Fixed "Max Travel Time" not being applied. (Thanks TheBlackHand!)
Fixed the attack tooltip displaying your off-hand equipment as your main hand equipment when your main hand is empty.
Fixed multiplayer desyncs related to container temperature checks.
Fixed desyncs related to save upgrades.
Fixed multiplayer desyncs related to multiple corpses/tile events on a tile.
Fixed decay bars not updating inside containers after traveling in certain situations. (Thanks The Red!)
Fixed some cases where action slots would grey out when traveling. (Thanks The Red!)
Fixed efficacy percentage inaccuracy when using doodads or items without tiers.
Fixed items slotted in the action bar becoming other items as a result of certain actions such as "Eat." (Thanks EarPiercingReeeeeeee!)
Fixed rendering/line of sight issues with lava. (Thanks The Red!)
Fixed "Survivor", "Weathered" and "Seasoned" giving incorrect starting stats. (Thanks Skarn!)
Fixed instances where inventory items could stay transparent after crafting.
Fixed save not loading with Developer Mode enabled. (Thanks Deadpull!)
Fixed doodad containers and crafting dialog sort names not appearing correctly when first opened.
You can no longer filter items while a context menu is up. (Thanks wolfram!)
Fixed disabled slots not showing differently when UI opacity is disabled.
Fixed some items' action orders not respecting expected tool usage.
Fixed being able to gain seafaring skill while resting, sleeping, and idling.
Fixed some notekeeper milestone progress not updating the milestones dialog.
Fixed randomized starting skills granting progress toward the Multitasker milestone.
Fixed "Allow Hardcore Option" showing for challenge mode.
Fixed dropdowns not selecting entries with "enter".
Fixed some terrain templates not spawning items or doodads.
Fixed weight and dismantling issues with knives.
Fixed hovering over skills not highlighting the item in the equipment dialog.
Fixed certain milestone modifiers being created twice.
Fixed throwing dual-wieldable weapons reducing durability on your current off-hand weapon (and mentioning it in messages). (Thanks TheBlackHand!)
Fixed cactus scarecrows producing a dangerous tile warning. (Thanks King Smidgens!)
Fixed not being able to select "use any valid item" in the actions drawer in some situations.
Fixed being able to slot an item with an inapplicable action in the actions drawer.
Fixed line height issue with news article titles.
Fixed resting in a sailboat in shallow water reducing rest.
Fixed dropdown "next option" and "previous option" shortcut bindings not working unless the dropdown has already been opened.
Fixed upgraded magical stoke values getting decimal places.
Fixed multiplayer clients disconnecting due to timeouts during island load/traveling.
Fixed the binding hints box showing up when there are no hints.
Fixed creatures interacting with tiles/doodads that they would have moved to if they weren't frozen.
Fixed dirt showing underneath clay in the arid island biome rarely.
Fixed slotting an item when the actions drawer is already open causing the slot to reset to whatever it had before.
Fixed a typo in the note "My Needs Outpace My Stamina". (Thanks puffletops!)
Fixed both the Till and Pack Ground actions showing simultaneously.
Fixed being able to toggle "use when moving" for actions that aren't compatible with it.
Disabled the Rename action being "used when moving" since it didn't work.

Technical

Added feedback and an error prompt when hard crashes occur.
Improved performance of loading saves with many islands when developer mode is enabled.
Upgraded to Electron 21.2.0.

Mods

Wayward Major Update Wheels & Wetlands Released!

Fixed errors when using the inspect feature.
Improved the island selection dropdown.
Fixed zoom issues after renderer changes.

TARS

Fixed TARS sometimes causing other islands to load when playing.

[ 2022-10-28 17:54:48 CET ] [ Original post ]

Welcome to Wayward's largest update to date! Here are just a few standout features from this release:

Actions menus have been moved to the new UI, allowing for a unique, unchanging binding for each action. Tooltips are now shown describing most actions.
Added minecarts and tracks, speeding up travel and moving items on land.
Configuration of action slots is now contained within a drawer of all actions with extra options about how the slot is used and restocked.
Added the "wetlands", a new island type with unique terrain, creatures, plants, and items.
Doors now automatically open and close as you enter/exit them and no longer take a turn, but can be "propped" open for creature passage.
The equipment dialog has been moved to the new UI. Equipment now is only used for stats and other on-equip effects, and will not be used for mining, gathering, harvesting, etc.

Take a look at some of these features in our preview video if you haven't seen it already: https://youtu.be/jv-8JJlpLyM We have made some huge steps in terms of modernizing our UI with this release and there are only a few systems left before we can start on proper keyboard-only and controller support. The usability of actions has received a huge bump in accessibility, fixing many long-standing issues shared by the community, especially in multiplayer games. No major update can be without its fair share of content, and this has it in spades. Nearly 100 items were added, new milestones (including a very game-changing one), a new island biome, new creatures, new plants, and more! An extra special thanks to all the testers this time around that helped us squash a lot of the bugs during the development period. You can see their names scattered through this changelog on our public Trello board. On with the giganto-list:

New

Actions menus have been moved to the new UI, allowing for a unique, unchanging binding for each action. Tooltips are now shown describing most actions.

Added minecarts and tracks, speeding up travel and moving items on land.

Configuration of action slots is now contained within a drawer of all actions with extra options about how the slot is used and restocked.

Added the "wetlands", a new island type with unique terrain, creatures, plants, and items.

Some weapons can now be dual-wielded, providing bonuses to attack, and use a new "Dual Wielding" skill.
Doors now automatically open and close as you enter/exit them and no longer take a turn, but can be "propped" open for creature passage.
The equipment dialog has been moved to the new UI. Equipment now is only used for stats and other on-equip effects, and will not be used for mining, gathering, harvesting, etc.
You can now change the number of action slots per your needs, up to 48 slots (four full bars). The game defaults to 12 action slots (one full bar).
Added unique icons for each action to be used in action slots and item/action menus.
Added a new magical item that can "absorb" and "exude".
You can now set any action slot to be used automatically on movement. Removed the old "Auto Chop/Mine/Harvest" option.
Your cartography skill level now increases the radius of drawn maps significantly.
Unlocked chests can now be picked up while they have items in them.
Added the colossal komodo monitor, an apex predator of the volcanic islands.
Merchant NPCs will now better equip armor and weapons in their inventory.
Added a new magical property, "Progress" for adding bonus civilization score to an item.
Added a new magical property for increasing the growth speed of plants called "Prosperity" available on dirt and other tiles/ground-types and stacks with quality/fertile soil bonuses.
Item names in messages and other text now display icons.
Added "Basalt" rock to the volcanic islands, along with tons of new basalt items, housing, doodads, and more.
Crafting efficacy is now shown in the crafting item tooltip when over 60% in the recipe's skill.
Crafting success and quality chances are now presented in the crafting tooltip after having at least 30% and 60% skill, respectively.
Added a new wandering undead creature to the wetlands.
Boats can now be used as storage containers.
Merchants now have hunger and thirst properties and will consume food/drinks or heal themselves with their inventory items.
Added swamp water in various states and forms across multiple biomes with a new filtration item and recipes for filtered water.
Boats can now be placed or built on top of water.
Added bindables for "move all of same quality", quick move all of same quality, and "drop all of same quality". (Thanks BrianReckliss!)
Cave entrances will now appear collapsed when digging them or filling them in from the opposite side.
Added the "Rouseabout" milestone and milestone modifier that allows you to reduce the difficulty of crafts at the cost of only being able to unlock crafts from picking up the item or learning it from an instructional scroll among other modifiers.
Added wooden planks, and as a result, many wooden crafts can now be disassembled back into the planks.
Added a new "Thaumaturgy" skill that works with magical components and items.
Sandstone can now be used just like granite for all tools/weapons (in most cases, less effectively).
Added a new look and item/tile for "Cobblestone" flooring, while its old appearance is now "Granite" flooring.
Added cattails, a useful resource to the new wetlands biome.
Added a new milestone and milestone modifier named "Murderer".
Introducing the quick and ravenous coyote to select island types.
Damage types now have icons.
Added a new "cut" status effect that is a weaker version of bleeding that low-level creatures and hurting your hands can cause.
Added a custom game option for setting base item decay.
Added a custom game option for setting base item durability.
Specific creatures can now be set to "always spawn" in custom game options.
Added an option to "Disable Overlay Support" which will reduce GPU load but will stop overlays from other programs or the Steam Overlay to function properly.
You can now click action slots to use them.
You can now slot an item over an action to use that item with the previously configured action.
Added an option to drop automatically into containers instead of the ground.
Recipe levels now have associated icons to help tell which levels are higher than each other.
Added two new books.
Pouring water on a player will now wake them up from sleep/rest.
Added a MOTD server argument.
Added a "Disable Movement Animations" option (for creatures/players).
The version string now shows the build date/ID when using the development branch.
Added a new launch option to force overlay support.
Action slots now display icons for the slotted item & action simultaneously.
Added a multiplayer game setting to enable/disable traveling.

Improvements

Consumed protected items will no longer be selected in item menu actions like, for example, adding fuel.
Each game mode now displays the milestones available in it.
Improved the appearance of binding hints keypresses now appear on keycaps, and mouse buttons/scroll are now icons.
Chests can now be opened and used while in your inventory.
Tamed creatures that can swim can now travel with you.
UI scaling now functions correctly for players that have scaling set through their OS.
Boats now have varying levels of speed that allow you to move faster.
Soil and other ground-type items will now reveal that they have an impact on the growth speed of plants and mushrooms.
Terrain will now show its magical naming and properties when inspected.
Active filters are now highlighted more prominently.
Partially-transparent UI now blurs whatever's behind it to make it easier to see what UI is currently interactable. This can be disabled in performance options.
The inventory, crafting, and container dialogs now use the same filter & sort UI as the rest of the game.
The "till" action has been split into the "till" and "pack ground" actions, to allow its use with the new "use when moving" functionality.
Improved the formatting and readability of action tooltips.
Action slots can now be configured to restock to matching items only of the same quality.
Improved ultrawide monitor support by allowing configuring the maximum width that the static elements will take up.
The "drop items at feet when facing tile blocked" option now takes into account a tile with the maximum amount of weight.
Replaced the optional non-pixel font to improve consistency between them.
Items consumed via fishing and starting fires will now skip protected items. (Thanks Anketam!)
Improved readability and visual style of drawn maps.
Items and actions slotted into action slots can now be dragged to move them to a different slot, and shift+dragged to copy them to a different slot.
Wayward now defaults to using a custom window title bar on Windows and macOS.
Fishing for treasure chests now will bring up the treasure chest to your facing position.
Starting a fire now mentions which tinder and kindling were used.
Item worth now calculates everything inside containers.
The active inputs are now highlighted in binding hints.
Some uses now appear with icons in item tooltips.
The default font mode is now "balanced", resulting in larger blocks of text being in the more readable non-pixel font.
The container name is now revealed when attempting to place items in a container with no room left.
Breaking open locked containers is now part of the attack action, rather than requiring moving into them.
Improved the default Steam Deck controller layout.
Some "uses" now appear in doodad tooltips.
Dropdowns and text inputs now have a border when focused in order to improve accessibility.
Stat messages no longer appear before action messages when consuming items. (Thanks Ratha Wynter!)
The chat box now grows vertically as you type, giving you more room to see your messages.
Tooltips positioned based on the mouse position are now centered on the mouse.
Knives are now considered tools.
Item tooltips now display their respective equip slot icons in their "equip" use.
Sprites with alpha will now multiply/blend with tiles below, improving the look of some sprites on different types of water for example.
Item notifications now show over NPCs when trading.
Improved the appearance of some UI elements.
Civilization score is now revealed in item tooltips.
Bindings of input macros now appear as "Key, Key" rather than "Double Key" to improve understandability (due to being used for more default bindings.)
Gravel tiles now change tile types more frequently and will change to different tiles/feature different resources depending on the biome.
The tooltip for the craft action in an action slot now displays the same tooltip as in the crafting dialog.
Items that can be used for an action, but don't receive any tier bonuses will now show as tier "0", indicating quality will not impact its tier.
Inspecting corpses now displays the decay.
Doodad names now show in the actions menu for the pick-up action.
Added additional/missing custom game option icons/tooltips in the pause menu.
Lava will now cool down when adjacent to water sources.
Harvest tooltip messages are now easier to understand and feature more information on the plant.
Reduced volume of pick-up sounds slightly.
Replaced "Power Mode" option with a "Low Power Mode" option.
Field of view transition is now skipped when teleporting.
Tightened the range at which tamed creatures follow you.
Updated the help menu and removed any old information.
Tweaked the color of ash to be a bit darker in contrast to basalt and ash cement.
You can now sleep and rest on boats.
Swimming and boats now use different sound effects.
Doodad actions are now allowed while on boats.
Stamina reduction from jumping will now take into consideration max weight bonuses and starting/max stamina.
Bindings of "Left Shift or Right Shift", "Left Control or Right Control", etc, now appear in binding hints as "Shift", "Control", etc.
Added more environmental interactions with NPCs
Updated the wording and tooltip description for "Disable Crafting with Protected Items" due to confusion on what it does. (Thanks Glycerine!)
Tweaked order of custom game options based on popularity.
The notoriously-annoying double click binding for context menus has been replaced with a "double tap" bind which only triggers specifically for touchscreen taps.
Added more contrast between the ice/snow walls and flooring.
Containers can now be opened from merchant inventories.
You can now bind things specifically to touchscreen taps (as opposed to clicks, which still trigger on taps as well.)
Added sound effects for protecting/unprotecting items.
The way newer UI elements in-game display has been updated to more closely match the game's menu UI, improving consistency.
Tooltips opened when navigating with the keyboard can now be dismissed with the "menu cancel" bind. (Esc)
The "trapping" magical property has been renamed to "ensnaring" due to a skill name conflict.
Unlit torches now show their decay values.
Wayward versions are now displayed by "Wayward: Version Title" and "Update #", where applicable, for example, "Wayward: Horizons (Update 6)"
When resting or sleeping, it will now reveal what was rested or slept on via messages.
Water spawned as part of a template will now contaminate itself when adjacent water is present.
Many non-essential UI components now hide until the player respawns.
Added a help button to the pause screen.
Wayward will now generate an SSH key automatically when using the SSH option for dedicated servers.
Interface scales lower than 1, IE 0.5x and 0.75x, are now better-supported in-game.
Improved rendering of centered UI elements.
Rock/stone items are now considered "granite" and are renamed accordingly.
Focusing (or clicking) on a container dialog now makes it the "active" container for use with "move to" actions.
Sleeping and rest interruption messages will now display all reasons why your sleep/rest was canceled.
Added a unique message for creatures that do not accept offerings.
Dialogs now have a pixel-based minimum size rather than a screen-space-based minimum size. Dialogs now have no maximum size.
Added a developer option to reload UI icons.
Improved the look of the changelog menu when failing to load.
Dedicated servers will now ignore the "savePath" launch option. Instead, it is recommended to use the "+savePath" argument to change this for servers.

Bug Fixes

Fixed re-tamed creatures sometimes not attacking enemies. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed some items receiving the "Worth" magical property when they shouldn't have.
Fixed incorrect quest requirements showing in the pause menu.
Fixed spawning radius issues. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fixed dropping containers into the void giving the contents back. (Thanks Shirow!)
Fixed some blurry menu graphics on retina/high-DPI displays.
Fixed importing a saved game putting it on the bottom of the list instead of sorting it, unless you previously modified the sort.
Fixed conflicts not updating when changing a binding. (Thanks Ratha Wynter!)
Fixed being able to disguise previously traded items by using containers.
Fixed terrain quality not changing in certain instances when digging. (Thanks Ratha Wynter!)
Fixed the background flickering when the Steam overlay was up. (Thanks HojaHybridTheory!)
Fixed only old dialogs closing with the "close all dialogs" binding.
Fixed "Disable UI Opacity/Effects" options not affecting certain elements.
Fixed the "Storing" magical property allowing for values above 100%. (Thanks ruancsfox!)
Fixed instances of casting on the exact tile (or around it) not bring up treasure chests from water.
Fixed potential out-of-bounds issues. (Thanks TheBlackHand!)
Fixed duplicate quest requirements getting pinned.
Fixed long island names wrapping in the middle of a word.
Fixed container items not generating the proper magical properties when generated via loot and not crafted. (Thanks ruancsfox!)
Fixed things getting weird if you load a very old save that had loaded a mod that happened to have something with the same internal name as something official added later.
Fixed players/NPCs being able to stand on top of each other on cave entrances.
Fixed rendering issues related to tall objects. (Thanks Eleiy!)
Fixed pangolin meat cooking into generic meat. (Thanks TheBlackHand!)
Fixed max travel time not able to be set from the game settings menu from a dedicated server.
Fixed the sleeping/resting prompt showing after death when being damaged multiple times in a single turn. (Thanks Whaffles!)
Fixed not dying the turn you stopped sleeping/resting after being fatally damaged and/or interrupted multiple times.
Fixed a desync occurring when a player respawned on a different island that they died on when in casual mode. (Thanks Amax!)
The transparency of some dialog elements is now limited, allowing text to remain readable when dialog opacity is set to low values.
Fixed an exploit with eating or consuming items. (Thanks Ruiner of Fun!)
Fixed sometimes pathfinding over land while in a boat while using path-to-tile. (Thanks Lonely Shikari!)
Fixed centering issues with the unread indicator for notes.
Fixed the incorrect menu entries showing in the title bar on macOS.
Fixed durability bars not being visible until a single turn has passed. (Thanks Ratha Wynter!)
Fixed help articles linking to incorrect places in the options menu.
Fixed "phantom" doodads displaying in the fog (for real this time). (Thanks Shirow!)
Fixed mushrooms not being considered as things you must "gather" to gain their resources.
Fixed filling in caves resulting in the incorrect tile types on certain island types.
Fixed grass growing into the wrong quality. (Thanks psusi!)
Fixed filter inputs de-selecting when selecting and releasing the mouse over the terrain. (Thanks Azak!)
Fixed the "Playing Typing Sound" not working for inventory/crafting filters. (Thanks Ratha Wynter!)
Fixed electron pathing errors when reloading the game.
Fixed the game options icon tooltip not showing the proper value when disabling a creature's ability to spawn aberrant.
Fixed igniting torches requiring tinder when using "ignite with".
Fixed context menus not closing when right-clicking dead space.
Fixed arid cactus map decorators showing in underground maps. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed many doodad, item, and merchant equipment spawning inconsistencies.
Fixed doodads not breaking and dropping during certain interactions when opening up cave entrances.
Fixed tiles getting deleted when caving/filling in cave entrances using certain interactions.
Fixed "Random" not working for the starting island custom game option.
Fixed slow/limited connections not always being able to download full map data when connecting to a dedicated server. (Hotfixed) (Thanks Who!)
Fixed dirt terrain decorators overlapping other tiles.
Fixed tanglehead grass not dying when other tiles were placed over it.
Fixed non-tiered item actions showing a bonus from quality when inspecting the action.
Fixed containers opening when screenshot mode was enabled. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed decay bar changing positions when a durability bar was present. (Thanks Ratha Wynter!)
Fixed players not timing out when unfocusing their game window when connected to a multiplayer game.
Fixed the traitor milestone not working in some cases. (Thanks DankBud!)
Fixed some smoothness/consistency of screen scrolling. (Thanks Ratha Wynter!)
Fixed old seawater wells not being converted after pouring fresh water into them.
Fixed certain dialogs not being able to be opened after screenshot mode was enabled. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed particles being cleared even when other players change layers.
Out-of-date mods display will no longer say "Error loading mod." instead of "Incompatible with this version."
Fixed campfires (and other doodads) that are overflowing having different stages of fire from tile event for a turn when the tile event had a bigger stage.
Fixed menu buttons always appearing with their mouse-over background color.
Fixed treasure chests appearing under the player when digging.
Fixed canceling the first connection to a server still creating a character on the server. (Thanks Colossus!)
Context menus with sub-menus now close simultaneously rather than one level at a time.
Fixed challenge mode not increasing decay time of items properly.
Hidden creatures are no longer shown in tooltips.
Fixed gathering water in some instances resulting in an incorrect tile type for the biome/island type.
Fixed a desync related to picking up doodads.
Fixed water tiles sometimes getting a "quality" when digging shallow water.
Fixed being able to spawn on top of creatures.
Fixed the order of the moving/facing bindables in the controls menu not matching WASD.
Fixed the preview path staying visible after canceling movement when using the move-to-tile bind directly. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed excessively-long words being cut off in messages instead of broken across multiple lines.
Fixed the shoot action on projectiles not always shooting the exact projectile the action was used on.
Fixed stationary stat multipliers not displaying any value in the icon tooltip.
Fixed the "Dig" option in the action menu showing in cases where you could not actually dig.
Fixed "See more" showing in tooltips when you can already see more.
Fixed a desync related to the first player movement after joining the server.
Fixed an ancient issue causing very long stats (such as very high weights) to be clipped.
Fixed the shoot action on projectiles requiring being directly adjacent to enemies.
Fixed empty wells not getting filled with fresh water when poured.
Fixed "Also Bound To" warnings on mod-added bindables not being clickable.
Fixed corpses not appearing in the inspect dialog.
Fixed using the up arrow and down arrow in the chat box moving the selection to different UI elements.
Fixed some tooltip locations in the options menu.
Fixed named aberrant creatures displaying their names as, for example, "Aberrant "Mittens"" instead of just ""Mittens"".
Fixed corpses of named creatures appearing as, for example, "Aberrant "Mittens" Corpse" rather than "The Corpse of "Mittens"".
Fixed pangolins giving you positive reputation when killing them.
Fixed certain items not starting on fire when placed/thrown on top of fire-producing doodads.
All instances of "pickup" and "pick-up" have been corrected to "pick up".
Fixed multiple action slots configured to the same item resulting in only one being able to be restocked.
Fixed using the escape bind in filters replacing current word with a previous word. (Thanks Ratha Wynter!)

Balance

Items that are consumed, but returned (like water containers) no longer provide crafting and durability bonuses based on their quality. Tiers and aptitude will still apply.
You can now set down fertile soil and other ground-types over/around plants.
Increased the chances of more talc per tile.
Talc is now much more common over limestone in the coastal biome.
Overeating and overhydration are now scaled based on the food and maximum stamina.
Wells now require to be connected to larger bodies of water in the cave below to get "unlimited" water status.
Well crafting difficulty has been reduced but requires slightly more materials to craft.
Reduced minimum spawn rate slightly.
The recipes you learn from old instructional scrolls are now weighted so lower skill, lower worth crafts, and can come from the current island/biome type are more likely to show up first.
Merchants can now attack creatures and be attacked by them.
Aberrant creatures that produce resources will now have increased quality chances.
You can no longer water route from created puddles or adjacent to expansions of pre-generated water unless connected to a large body of water.
Spores can now be "planted" without tilling the ground/tile.
Decreased the temperature in Arid and Ice Cap island biomes slightly.
Tripled the reputation impact for killing creatures, making it a more viable strategy to increase or decrease your reputation.
You can now till using your hands.
Boats will now have a defense bonus when inside them but can be damaged in combat.
Non-metal knives can be disassembled, but they no longer get weight reduction when crafted.
Decreased the scaling effect of player health for aberrant health, leading to more strength needed before reaching the cap. (Thanks DerSimon!)
The damage modifier for boats has been reduced in half.
Lava damage has been doubled.
Untamed creatures will now lose their aggression towards the enemy of the tamer unless they are actively in combat with the enemy.
Creature re-animation is now limited and gets rarer the more they have respawned.
Increased the spawning chances of merchants slightly.
The mitigation effect from the parrying skill now scales with damage. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Goats no longer spawn by default on coastal islands at 0 reputation.
Travel time is now greater based on how far you are away from the edge of the map.
Combined water tiles no longer contaminate each other fully when both bodies of water contain massive amounts of water.
You can now only contaminate wells if they don't have an unlimited source and are less than half full.
Stone house templates on coastal islands will now only generate inside caves. Wooden house templates will only spawn on the overworld.
The quality of floors, walls, and other building materials now affects civilization score.
Papaya trees are no longer passable.
Water stills now have a chance to spawn in abandoned house templates.
Reduced the max attack of snakes.
Crafting efficacy messages are now displayed at 30% skill instead of 20% and exact values are revealed at 90% instead of 80%.
Wisps no longer spawn in the ice cap biome.
Reduced the skill check/difficulty of adding fuel to torches.
Several actions that caused global reputation changes in multiplayer games now only apply to specific islands.
Skeletal remains now animate when a tamed creature walks near them or an item is thrown at them.
Hammocks no longer give sleeping and resting debuffs when over water, snow, swamp, or cooling lava.
Tweaked fire source tiers for doodads so that torches/candles/stills perform relatively worse versus other fire source doodads.
Slightly increased the generated creature count on coastal islands.
Spruce seeds are no longer harmful to consume.
Gravel tiles can no longer produce fresh water.

Modding

Added modding support for magical properties. Learn how it's done from the new modding guide on the topic!
Added modding support for biomes.
Updated the interface of the "Wayward Types Viewer", previously known as the "Wayward Documentation".
Added support for player-like NPCs that run with simulated turn mode in single-player.
Languages can now provide definite article rules as well ie, "the" (definite) in addition to "a/an" (indefinite).
Nightly versions of all mods are now published on Github.
Mods can now register "tags" for items, doodads, and entities, to apply as needed.
Fixed encumbered status not being updated when weight bonus had changed.
Don't include "node_modules/@types/*" folders in published mods
Fixed moddable Prompts not working correctly.
Fixed group dropdown tooltips staying in the document forever.
Fixed some modded things not being associated with their registering mod, causing resource paths to break. (Thanks fluff!)

Technical

Increased the speed and performance of dialog movement and resizing.
Improved the performance of item updates.
Filter inputs no longer perform the filter the moment you type a character, and instead wait until you haven't typed a character for 100ms. This fixes freezes when filtering huge lists of items.
Improved performance of the load game menu when there are a lot of saves.
Low power mode now disables magical item animations.
Improved performance of magical animations.
Wayward has been upgraded to TypeScript 4.7.
Wayward has been upgraded to Electron 20.1.4.
Improved performance of crafting recipe updating by up to 75%.

It turns out, this changelog is so big, Steam won't even allow us to post it all. View the remaining "Mods" changes here: https://www.waywardgame.com/changelog

[ 2022-09-30 17:16:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

Multiplayer Meetup #6

Join us for the next "Multiplayer Meetup" taking place on Friday, September 16th, 1:00 PM PDT. Steam will convert this to your local time above or on the right sidebar and will notify you when it happens if you hit the "Set a reminder" button. This meetup will be using the development branch of the game as we want to do some testing. You can find out more information on how to switch branches here. But as always, I want to emphasize you should always keep backups of your saves before and during your use of the development branch as there is no going back once you upgrade your saves (unless you have those backups). To join, simply look for the server in the multiplayer menu in-game for the game(s) named: "Multiplayer Meetup" at the date/time noted above while running the development branch. As always we will be streaming the meetup at Twitch.

What if that day/time doesn't work for me?

What about latency/ping?

How does multiplayer work in Wayward?

Learn more about multiplayer here: https://www.waywardgame.com/multiplayer

[ 2022-09-12 19:11:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

Multiplayer Meetup #5

Join us for the next "Multiplayer Meetup" taking place on Saturday, August 27th, 7:30 PM PDT. Steam will convert this to your local time above or on the right sidebar and will notify you when it happens if you hit the "Set a reminder" button. This meetup will be using the development branch of the game as we want to do some testing. You can find out more information on how to switch branches here. But as always, I want to emphasize you should always keep backups of your saves before and during your use of the development branch as there is no going back once you upgrade your saves (unless you have those backups). To join, simply look for the server in the multiplayer menu in-game for the game(s) named: "Multiplayer Meetup" at the date/time noted above while running the development branch.

What if that day/time doesn't work for me?

What about latency/ping?

This is a west-coast, Canada-based server, so the latency may not be great for everybody. Depending on the interest and turn-out, some other players from our community might also be hosting their own servers and game(s) in their own regions that you can join. Check your ping in-game by entering "/ping" (without quotes) in the chat.

How does multiplayer work in Wayward?

Learn more about multiplayer here: https://www.waywardgame.com/multiplayer

[ 2022-08-25 06:12:38 CET ] [ Original post ]

Development Branch Update

It's happening! We are "ready-ish" to begin testing the in-development build of Wayward. Many of you have probably already noticed your game updating if you were subscribed to the development branch on Steam. We are still working on a lot of stuff and all the features are not yet finalized, but we do have a name at least! The votes are in, this major release will be called "Wheels & Wetlands". You can find a little of what to expect here from the latest newsletter: https://steamcommunity.com/games/wayward/announcements/detail/3363644258060662556 But if you really want to see all of what's going on so far, you can check the in-game changelog or view our Trello for a more technical breakdown: https://trello.com/b/PWX1Hpjn/wayward-todo

Here Be [strike]Dragons[/strike] Drakes

As always, we would encourage you to back up your saves before trying this development branch of the game. By default, you can find your backups and save folders in the main Wayward directory. You can also export saves and global save data in-game if needed. More information on how to change branches here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=721479594 Report any issues you spot. Godspeed!

[ 2022-08-21 06:18:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

Wayward Newsletter #11

Hey all, We are well underway with the next major release of Wayward, codenamed "Next". More on that naming a bit further down. As always, these newsletters are for keeping players up to date with what we are working on and while a few of these previews have been shared on social media, there are a few new reveals as well below.

Minecarts

Travel in style (and speed) with minecarts. They work to increase your carrying capacity and traveling speed on land. The carts themself also work as a mobile form of storage (which now also apply to boats by the way). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEZ24mFNqjU

Action Bar Improvements

Previously known as "quickslots", the action bar has got a complete overhaul, building on top of the action quickslotting concept we did in the last major release. Some of the changes include:

You can now change the number of action slots per your needs, up to 50 slots.
Configuration of action slots is now contained within a single, searchable, filterable drawer of actions with extra options about how the slot is used and restocked.
Each action now has a unique icon when set to an action slot.

We'll have more information and previews on this coming soon!

Wetlands

Explore this brand-new island type filled with unique land formations, creatures, items, plants, and more.

Action Improvements

Building on top of all the work done with the action bar, the action/item menus have been completely redone to feature a new look and new functionality. Each action now has a unique bind and can be customized. No longer will action binds jump all over the place based on the context or item type. This is a huge usability win and will further our progress towards a new unified UI.

Volcanic Upgrade

The volcanic islands are getting a big upgrade in the form of a new resource type: basalt. This hardened igneous rock is an upgrade over normal rock (now named granite) and sandstone.

Crafting Success/Efficacy Tooltips

Minmaxers will rejoice at these new inclusions to the crafting tooltips.

Crafting success and quality chances are now presented in the crafting tooltip after having at least 30% and 60% skill, respectively.
Crafting efficacy is now shown in the crafting item tooltip when over 60% in the recipe's skill.

New Custom Game Options

We are adding three of the most commonly requested custom game options: always spawning creatures and item durability/decay multipliers, allowing much finer control over the difficulty in the game.

Storage Improvements

Going along with the minecarts, and previously hinted at, storage, in general, has got a big reduction in the tedium factor, especially for those that like to keep organized. As mentioned, boats now act as a container and can store items. Not only that, but can be picked up into your inventory along with all containers in the game (like chests) even with items in it. They act exactly like bags or backpacks and can be interacted with and organized in the same way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfo2wt_sn6M

Boats can now be used as storage containers.
Boats can now be placed or built on top of water.
Boats now have varying levels of speed that allow you to move faster.
Boats will now have a defense bonus when inside them but can be damaged in combat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqocH4xvgoI

Chests can now be opened and used while in your inventory.
Unlocked chests can now be picked up while they have items in them.
Added an option to drop automatically into containers instead of the ground.

Featured Mods

Check out these awesome recent mods from the community:

Colors Everywhere

Colors Everywhere give you the ability to paint and dye structures (like walls/fences/gates), chests, and armor. Some of the pigments and dye creations use existing items while others are provided as new flowers added by the mod. Learn More

Trick Arrows

Trick Arrows adds an interesting variety of arrows to your ranged arsenal. Some are a bit on the whimsical side, while others focus on the use of some rare (and rather unuseful) items. Included are:

Shark Tooth Arrow
Incendiary Arrow
Dragonsbreath Arrow
Ice Arrow
Spectral Arrow
Boxing Glove Arrow
Stinger Arrow

Learn More

Sashimi

Sashimi does just as the name suggests; adds a more fancy way of consuming your raw fish. But wait, that's not all. You'll also find a few other goodies in here including salt, popcorn, apple pie, and more! Learn More

Naming Poll

We have begun to codename our next major releases as "Next" before we settle on a name. And speaking of settling; we can't quite do that for this one. So, we are asking for your help in choosing the final name now knowing what you can expect in the next release. [olist]

Wheels & Wetlands

Stockpiled

Motions in the Marsh

Operator

Actions & Estuaries

Locomotion

[/olist] Vote Here

Steam Survival Fest

Wayward will be part of the survival-themed Steam sale taking place from August 1st at 10:00 AM PDT (GMT-7) to August 8 at 10:00 AM PDT (GMT-7). Wayward will be -30% off during this sale event. It's a great time to grab a cheap copy for yourself or a friend.

Wayward on Steam These upcoming features are just a small preview of what's to come in the next release. Stay tuned for more news on the re-opening of the development branch (to take a deeper look into everything and provide feedback/testing) as well as the next multiplayer meetup (which has been on hiatus for a bit as we worked on this release). Oh, while you are at it, make sure to vote on some of the new frequently requested additions to the game on our feature voting page.

[ 2022-08-01 17:14:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.11.6 Released

Here's just a small late-night update for you all while we continue working on the next major release. You'll find a healthy helping of bug fixes in this release with more on the way! Stay tuned! Bonus Promo:Join us onDiscord and gain some insight from the resident experts on Wayward who have all poured tons of hours into the game. Bonus Tip: Not sure where to start? Starting the game in "Casual Mode" may be recommended for new players to help get their bearings as it allows respawning and disables aggression from creatures. Check out the "Starter Quest" that explains some of the mechanics of the game. Just click the pinned "Welcome!" message that shows up in the bottom left corner to get started!

Improvements

When exporting saves, the file type (.wayward) is now enforced.

Bug Fixes

Fixed Starter Quest "Welcome" quest not being pinned when starting a new game.
Fixed tooltips flashing in simulated turns mode when more than one player was connected.
Fixed fog of war issues after traveling/reconnecting. (Thanks Whaffles!)
Fixed a multiplayer desync related to equipment.
Fixed a crash when advancing island time. (Thanks Grub!)
Fixed cases where weight and crafting recipes were not being updated in multiplayer games.
Fixed certain items not having any weight variance when dismantled. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed cooked fish kebabs not requiring fire. (Thanks Lonely Shikari!)
Fixed dedicated displaying a blank screen after a while.
Fixed the pacifier milestone not counting certain creatures properly. (Thanks warriorsforever482!)
Fixed interrupts staying open when leaving multiplayer games.
Fixed wisps vanishing in a couple of instances after pouring.
Fixed container breaking not adhering to normal tile rules. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fixed dropping items not resetting their quickslot position. (Thanks BeautifulNova!)
Fixed field of view-related desyncs.
Fixed aberrant mudskippers not being dismantlable.
Fixed a brief flash of white during screen transitions.
Fixed instances of equipment rendering over top of trees. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed disabled UI Effects/UI Opacity not working on islands intro/game details animation.
Fixed the changelog not getting the proper order of mod changes.

Modding

Fixed issues when a mod was installed locally and via the workshop at the same time.

Technical

Improved crafting dialog performance.
Upgraded to Electron 16.2.1.

Mods

NPCs can now be spawned over blocked tiles and tile events/doodads.

TARS

Fixed item protection options interfering with equipment selection.
Fixed harvester mode sometimes leaving food on the ground.
Fixed getting stuck moving back and forth from caves and the surface.
Added an "Allow Equipping Protected Items" option.
Added a "Lock Equipment" option to prevent TARS from changing your equipment.
Increased max height for the dialog.
Fixed an instance of getting stuck with a tamed creature when butchering.

Reincarnate

Stat maximums now have their lower ends capped so stats cannot go past reasonable levels on reincarnation.
Skill values are now only randomized if the player had any skill in each, to begin with when reincarnating.
Strength is now randomized along with health and calculated together when reincarnating.
Stats now have randomized starting values (and are not set to their maximums on reincarnation).

[ 2022-04-29 05:00:47 CET ] [ Original post ]

April Multiplayer Meetup

Join us for our fourth "Multiplayer Meetup" taking place on Saturday, April 30th, 7:30 PM PDT. Steam will convert this to your local time above or on the right sidebar and will notify you when it happens if you hit the "Set a reminder" button. Multiplayer Meetup is a new initiative to get our small community together to play at the same time (or around then) to get some larger public games going on. This month we are going to be attempting to survive in the harsh arid biome to start. Respawning will be enabled. BYOC = Bring Your Own Coconuts. To join, simply look for the server in the multiplayer menu in-game for the game(s) named: "Multiplayer Meetup" at the date/time noted above.

What if that day/time doesn't work for me?

Feel free to schedule some multiplayer game(s) with other people from the community as close to this time as possible in other to gather the most interest and people. Join the conversation in our #multiplayer or #wayward channels via Discord. Different dates/times may be chosen next time.

What about latency/ping?

How does multiplayer work in Wayward?

Learn more about multiplayer here: https://www.waywardgame.com/multiplayer

[ 2022-04-27 18:16:19 CET ] [ Original post ]

March Multiplayer Meetup

Join us for our third "Multiplayer Meetup" taking place on Saturday, March 26th, 7:30 PM PDT. Steam will convert this to your local time above or on the right sidebar and will notify you when it happens if you hit the "Set a reminder" button. Multiplayer Meetup is a new initiative to get our small community together to play at the same time (or around then) to get some larger public games going on. We have a gimmick this week. We are going with a custom game type with respawning allowed. That's because it's probably going to be a bit difficult to survive in a world without trees. There will be a few added challenges and secrets thrown in for good measure of course. To join, simply look for the server in the multiplayer menu in-game for the game(s) named: "Multiplayer Meetup" at the date/time noted above.

What if that day/time doesn't work for me?

What about latency/ping?

How does multiplayer work in Wayward?

Learn more about multiplayer here: https://www.waywardgame.com/multiplayer

[ 2022-03-23 07:01:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.11.5 Released

While we are already working away on the next major release, please enjoy this smaller update to improve the game and fix up some of the remaining bugs on our radar. Stay tuned for more minor/major updates! Bonus Tip: For merchants to travel to your island, you need to increase your "civilization" score, which can be found while hovering over the reputation icon. Civilization score can be increased by building walls, flooring, and other interactions. They will appear on player-made flooring; so the more you pave over nature (which can have its own drawbacks), the better chance they will travel and trade with you.

New

Added an option to set the maximum number of advancing turns in world options.

Improvements

Added initial support for Steam Deck.
Protected items can now be used for disassembling as long as their durability is over 0.
The fire/lava dangerous warning prompt will now only show if it will actually hurt/damage the player.
Adjusted the camera position to improve centering on the player's sprite.
Attempting to pick up items/excrement, lockpicking, opening containers, using hitches, opening doors, or digging on tiles that are on fire or in lava will now produce a warning if enabled.
"Allow Hardcore Respawn" is no longer toggleable when not running a hardcore game.
Merchants will no longer stay in place (while a trading dialog is open) while they are taking fire damage.
Cooked fish kebabs can now be disassembled.
Scrollbars will now appear wider for accessibility/touch interfaces.
Improved readability of magical "Endurance" and "Regeneration" properties tooltip text. (Thanks Nobody Important!)
Increased the maximum zoom level.
Removed a scrollbar that could appear on stats in certain resolutions/scales.

Bug Fixes

Fixed character/creature/item graphics not using the correct scale on certain operating systems and hardware. (Thanks ldellapiana!)
Fixed issues when quickslotting multiple of the same item. (Thanks SMMFO!)
Fixed "Remove from Quickslot" removing all instances of that item in quickslots.
Fixed desyncs related to background option updates.
Fixed a duping and disassembly issues with fish kebabs. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fixed switching slots not working properly.
Fixed several burning events not specifying the proper location of the burn on the player.
Fixed a duplication issue with slither suckers. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed a freeze/crash related to fires when advancing island time.
Fixed an instance where the game is shown in color after the player is a ghost after reloading a previous game.
Fixed "phantom" doodads displayed in the fog until revealed not to be there. (Thanks Anketam!)
Fixed some items that produced heavier items when burned. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fixed efficacy not allowing a rating of 0%. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fixed creatures being able to follow ghosts still.
Fixed desyncs related to clients joining the server while they were on other islands.
Fixed respawning as a new character not resetting skills or reputation.
Fixed issues where the inventory would appear greyed out after crafting (again!). (Thanks animexamera!)
Fixed the quality of tiles dug up not matching their original quality after stacking more than a single tile. (Thanks Destro!)
Fixed the inventory being able to produce a horizontal scrollbar in some instances. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fixed multiple visual glitches when doing certain actions over top of any doodad while wearing certain equipment. (Thanks Wuffy!) (Thanks Rayb!)
Fixed the pacifier and friendly milestones spawning more than one creature. (Thanks Benzi!)
Fixed a rare issue that would prevent multiplayer clients from executing actions.
Fixed targetting actions (like repairing) allowing the action on itself when placed in the first spot in your inventory. (Thanks Ursa!)
Fixed weight calculating incorrectly when placing containers in other containers. (Thanks Raxy9975!)
Fixed civilization score discrepancies when tiles melted.
Fixed item actions not working for items outside of main inventory. (Hotfixed) (Thanks Thadon!)
Fixed the bronze shovel having incorrect values for its digging and mining properties. (Thanks Ursa!)
Fixed underline/linked text formatting issues.
Fixed using hitching posts that were on fire not burning the player properly.
Fixed up some incorrect word usage. (Thanks Setimu).
Fixed auto item actions not producing warnings when applicable.

Balance

The tile or doodad quality now affects civilization score.
Fertile soil now provides a civilization score.
Bronze items (and a few other select items) are now tradable but are not sold on merchants.
The dangerous action warning option is now disabled by default.

Technical

Improved "Default" power mode to automatically run in "low power" mode when the device is on battery power.
Improved performance of various UI animations.
Running the game in "low power" mode will disable all continuous animations which will stop all rendering when idle.

Mods

TARS

Fixed various warnings/errors while executing stat recovery plans.
Fixed issues when crafting a water container while encumbered.
Now detects when corpses/items decay while moving to them.
Will no longer move to a corpse or item if it will be decayed by the time it gets there.
Added additional options for survival mode.
Fixed TARS acting weird when dropping items while encumbered.
Split up options section into multiple panels to reduce clutter.
Added options to control how TARS will use protected items.
Added "Treasure Hunter" mode, which will solve maps & find treasure.
Improved logic for starting water stills.
Speed up base organization.
Fixed issues recovering stamina while moving when overburdened
Fixed TARS sometimes trying to use the same item for multiple purposes and not being able to craft because of that.
Fixed TARS trying to dig while things were blocking the tile.
Fixed TARS accidentally wandering into caves and getting stuck.
Added option that can instruct TARS to only harvest using hands.
Fixed TARS continuously creating anvils until the whole world was covered in them.
Fixed bugs in objective planning calculations related to chests.
Fixed erratic movement when trying to till tiles.
Fixed new games not loading when quitting a game that was not at the starting island.
Fixed getting stuck harvesting in harvest mode.
Included distance in "moving to" status message.
Improved creature hunting logic.
Learned that caves exist.

February Multiplayer Meetup

Fixed WebGL context leaks when using the selection panel.

[ 2022-03-11 19:59:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Join us for our second "Multiplayer Meetup" taking place on Friday, February 18th, 1:00 PM PST. Convert to your local time here. Multiplayer Meetup is a new initiative to get our small community together to play at the same time (or around then) to get some larger public games going on. This month we will be using the same map/save as the last meetup post-slime/zombie apocalypse, but with some added secrets and modifications. There are about a dozen of these unique points of interest. Can you find them all? To join, simply look for the server in the multiplayer menu in-game for the game(s) named: "Multiplayer Meetup" at the date/time noted above.

What if that day/time doesn't work for me?

What about latency/ping?

How does multiplayer work in Wayward?

Learn more about multiplayer here: https://www.waywardgame.com/multiplayer

[ 2022-02-17 06:15:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.11.4 Released

In this week's release, we fixed another big chunk of issues and improved various parts of the game. We are planning for at least one more release in the 2.11.x series, so stay tuned for more! Bonus Tip: I recently put out a new video showcasing some new tips and tricks as kind of an addendum to my beginner's guide video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgPQXlF75w0 If you haven't watched the first video, check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G2_PGmSxU0 Bonus Promo: If you haven't checked out TARS yet, give it a whirl! It has improved by leaps and bounds over the last little while. TARS will even help with repetitive tasks like harvesting now! Check it out here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1218286592

Improvements

Protected items can now be used for dismantling as long as their durability is over 0.
Updated the accepted item list for item quests in challenge mode to include new items and items that exist in other island types.
The crafting and skill tooltips for reputation now take milestone modifiers/custom game options into account. (Thanks Kalako!)

Bug Fixes

Fixed picking up items via idling/moving not updating player weight sometimes. (Thanks WinterBearPark!)
Fixed magical malevolence properties not allowing gaining malignity when at maxed benignity among other issues. (Thanks Anketam!)
Fixed the magical "Aptitude" property not working for normal quality items. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fixed gathered tiles not producing the correct resources when digging. (Thanks TheLukeyBoi!)
Fixed performance issues with fire and temperature. (Thanks Ursa!)
Fixed occasional tooltip errors in the mod manager menu when closing the steam overlay after uninstalling a mod.
Fixed certain items not always being removed when sailing to civilization if they were in a sub-container.
Fixed NPC inspections not working.
Fixed being able to occupy the same tile as creatures other than fish. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fixed various tooltip errors.
Fixed an error when hovering over the merchant name in the "Mercantile" note. (Thanks Lardi!)
Fixed auto action hover item highlights not always matching the item that will be used.
Fixed island event messages being able to appear for players on other islands.
Fixed a possible error when using the upgrading action and other issues when attempting to use the action on a facing tile.
Fixed interrupt screens not allowing quickslots to be used afterward if using a hotkey for selecting a menu item. (Thanks NightsFire!)
Fixed an infinite loop when opening containers with no screen space left. (Thanks Shirow!)
Fixed the stepping into fire warning triggering even if the tile was blocked in some cases.

Balance

Increased the chances of gathering earthworms and added them to more tile types.
Increased the effectiveness of seed tiers for reputation gain bonuses. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Increased the maximum value for magical "Lightening" properties.
The added score reduction when playing challenge mode in real-time or simulated turns is now based on tick speed.
The score in challenge mode now decreases slower.

Modding

Speed up mod publishing by excluding the node_modules/@wayward folder.
Fixed issues creating new NPC types from mods.
Updated tsconfig.mod.base.json compile target to ES2021.

Technical

Improved performance of flow field in multiplayer games.

Mods

TARS

Fixed TARS trying to gather water while a solar still is blocking the tile.
Fixed TARS getting confused when trying to offer items to tame creatures.
Added a "Tame Creature" task.
Sped up planner calculations.
Learned how solar stills work.
Added a "Move to Creature" task.
Added "Harvester" mode.

January Multiplayer Meetup

The selection viewport will now rerender when turns pass.

[ 2022-02-04 20:30:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.11.3 Released

Thanks to all those that participated in the multiplayer meetup last week! It was a smashing success; if success means being overrun by slimes and zombies for two hours. Some of the below changes should help smooth out some of the stuff we all discovered when that many players all join together. Thanks for the stress test! Bonus promo: Join us on Discord and gain some insight from the resident experts on Wayward who have all clocked in thousands of hours in the game. Bonus tip: To unlock recipes, you only need to be adjacent to or holding one of each item in a craft to unlock it. One strategy to unlock as many recipes as possible is to have three chests adjacent to you, all with many different items. Fill them up with things you haven't crafted before or rare things you found. Walking in between them could unlock a few interesting things for you.

New

Added a new screen vignette effect (that can be disabled in options) when your health is low.

Improvements

Replaced "Clear Ghost Data" multiplayer option with "Allow Hardcore Respawns" option which allows hosts to respawn as well and is also exposed via dedicated server arguments.
Planting seeds or spores will now increase gardening as well as the skill associated with the item (botany or mycology).
Improved reliability of Steam network connections.
Reduced multiplayer bandwidth usage by around 400%.
Screen DPI (and the "zoomFactor" option) will no longer change the amount you can zoom in or out.
Updated the description of magical aspect to be more in line with its use. (Thanks lilzoark!)
Added all plantable items to the "seeds" loot group for Dryads.
Added dedicated server arguments for setting gameplay modifiers.
Improved reliability of automatic WebRTC fallback if the Steam network connection gets stuck.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where the wrong items were being named in the disassemble warning. (Thanks Shirow!)
Fixed the sleeping/resting dialog prematurely hiding itself in multiplayer games.
Fixed multiplayer desyncs related to the "Pacifier" and "Friendly" milestones.
Fixed items being able to require themselves to disassemble.
Fixed dedicated servers not handling fog of war radius updates correctly. (Thanks Shirow!)
Fixed some magical properties that can be given to lit torches and candles being removed after being extinguished or vice versa. (Thanks Skarn!)
Fixed the durability tooltip for plants not showing the proper message.
Fixed not being able to select milestone modifiers when creating a multiplayer game in the dedicated server GUI.
Fixed some options tooltips not being displayed in the options menu.
Fixed a multiplayer desync related to creature trapping.
Fixed the "Player Connecting..." screen still able to be shown after leaving a game.
Fixed crafting tooltips toggling on and off in multiplayer games as ticks pass (again).
Fixed some previous saves resulting in infinite loading for clients. (Thanks Shirow!)
Fixed multiplayer desyncs related to refining items that can be disassembled. (Thanks Shirow!)
Fixed the possibility of "You see..." messages showing up while traveling to other islands
Fixed books staying open even after walking away from or destroying them. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed active sorting making sound effects when it sorted items.
Fixed overlapping sound effects triggering on travel. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed the respawn button not working when clicking on the text portion of the button.
Fixed rejoining as a new character (now respawning as a new character) not using the same milestone modifiers set. (Thanks Shirow!)
Fixed +console mode spamming errors. (Thanks Shirow!)
Fixed "Unable to verify port" message adding commas to the port number.
Fixed a graphical issue with fire. (Hotfixed) (Thanks NightsFire!)

Balance

The maximum health bonus for repeated taming is now capped based on the creature's base maximum health. (Thanks alacandor!)
Full tiles of items will now act as obstacles when using ranged attacks.
Items that are disassembled from crafted items will now have their durability reduction scaled instead of just a single point each time.
Random events now happen to a random player each tick instead of all players.
Slimes will no longer split when using fire damage.
Slime splitting chances will now scale with how much their health is over their normal maximum health.
You can no longer fail to plant seeds or spores; however, their durability combined with your skill will transfer to the plant's health (durability) now.

Technical

Improved logging of multiplayer desync errors.

Mods

TARS

Fixed getting stuck gathering water when the water was far away from the water still
Fixed getting stuck in a loop when around hitched creatures that are too powerful.
No longer tries to mine plants. Mining is for fish!
Fixed TARS getting confused if it accidentally tames creatures.
Fixed issues where TARS would incorrectly move items into chests when near the inventory weight limit.

[ 2022-01-24 04:57:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

Join us for the first "official" "Multiplayer Meetup" taking place on Sunday, January 16th, 6:30 PM PST. Convert to your local time here. Multiplayer Meetup is a new initiative to get our small community together to play at the same time (or around then) to get some larger public games going on. To join, simply look for the server in the multiplayer menu in-game for the game(s) named: "Multiplayer Meetup" at the date/time noted above.

What if that day/time doesn't work for me?

What about latency/ping?

How does multiplayer work in Wayward?

Learn more about multiplayer here: https://www.waywardgame.com/multiplayer

[ 2022-01-14 06:16:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.11.2 Released

Hey all, We have another batch of fixes and improvements this week with a focus on smoothing out some of the features that showed up with the major release. That, and whatever else the astute Wayward players reported this week. We still have a ton on our to-do, so expect another patch next week! Bonus Promo: Follow our Subreddit to stay up-to-date on all Wayward news, player discourse, and occasional memes. Bonus Tip: At 20% in a crafting skill you gain the ability to see "efficacy" when crafting. This will show how effective you are at making the craft, or making a better quality item based on what you are putting into it. It calculates what the best ingredients would be and compares it against what you used. Many things affect the efficacy of a craft, including item quality (exceptional or higher is best) and item tier (the higher the better). This is counted for both required items and consumed items. Check out the in-game help for more details on this and more.

New

There are now messages and sound effects when exhausting fire sources in crafting and other situations.

Improvements

Attaching a container to a water still will now show an item notification over it.
Creatures will no longer follow ghosts.
Dryads can now rarely plant seeds.
Swords now have "melee" as the default action instead of other tool actions. (Thanks Petalwing!)
Automatically fallback to use WebRTC when a multiplayer Steam network connection is not working properly.

Balance

Using bait while fishing now has a greater chance of attracting creatures.
Items burned will now produce items of varied quality, similar to the distribution of dismantling.
Reduced amount of islands you can travel at a time (increased skill check).
Increased hunger/thirst/stamina reduction when traveling.
Dryads now have a slightly decreased chance to spawn (increased requirements), increased health, and reduced attack. They also now provide negative reputation when killed.
Reduced the chance of magical properties on superior/remarkable items slightly.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where merchants were being spawned too quickly (or improperly in some cases).
Fixed treasure chest loot not adhering to the container's maximum weight. (Thanks Anketam!)
Fixed errors when crafting while near the edge of the map. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed being able to spawn outside of the normal map bounds when traveling. (Thanks Anketam!)
Fixed reinforcing relic items not working every time. (Thanks Nobody Important!)
Fixed a desync when using the item action menu facing some doodads.
Fixed opening the item action menu extinguishing doodads. Yikes. (Thanks FluffyWuffletonTheFierce!)
Fixed "See More" showing even when "Always Show More Information" is on. (Thanks Ygdrad!)
Fixed some items having the "aptitude" property that shouldn't be based on uncraftable items that used them in their recipe. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fixed changed items not being filtered properly. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed tiles being burned not distributing the correct quality on items dropped.
Fixed memory leaks related to milestone modifiers.
Fixed errors happening when traveling/generating a new island. (Thanks animexamera!)
Fixed rare multiplayer desyncs related to scarecrows.
Fixed an item ID error being produced in certain situations. (Thanks Torrin!)
Fixed being able to unpause the game when you're not supposed to, such as when a new player is joining a multiplayer game.
Fixed efficacy ratings being commonly inaccurate when crafting. (Thanks DerSimmon!)
Fixed being able to break out of the map bounds. Get back in there! (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed some items not having tiers for their groups that were used in crafts.

Modding

Fixed imports starting with "@wayward/types" when importing modules in Visual Studio Code.

Mods

TARS

Added a "Good Citizen" option that instructs TARS to not steal items from other player's chests in multiplayer games.
Added a "Sail to Civilization" task.
Fixed issues when planning/executing certain objectives.
Speculatively fixed TARS crafting a "Tin Double Axe" just to disassemble it.
Refactored codebase.
Fixed getting stuck when trying to build some doodads.
Will now hunt boglings that are bogglin' up the base.
Fixed an infinite loop when trying to start a water still while near the inventory weight limit.
Base doodads will now be highlighted in red in the navigation overlay.

[ 2022-01-10 00:59:38 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.11.1 Released

Hey all, Hope you are enjoying (or already enjoyed) your holidays! We have a patch ready to fix up some of the issues everybody has spotted after the major release launch with a few balance changes thrown in for good measure. We still got lots on our to-do list for this release series, so expect more soon! Happy New Year! Bonus Promo: We now have an Instagram, follow us here: https://www.instagram.com/waywardgame/ Double Bonus Promo: We are gathering feedback on a recurring Wayward multiplayer meetup to play as a community at some to-be-determined interval. Let us know your thoughts: https://forms.gle/9JHKVWihiNSstSfL8 Bonus Tip: Instead of opening the action menus every time you do an action, why not quickslot the action and use a single keypress for it? Right-click an empty quickslot to assign actions to it, or Ctrl + right-click to assign an item action to it. Item actions will automatically pick the best item from your inventory to do the action you set, saving even more time!

New

Added an option to protect required (non-consumed) items from use in crafting.

Improvements

Coordinates are now presented in NESW format.
An error prompt will now be displayed when save data fails to load when starting the game.

Bug Fixes

Fixed item action quickslots not getting the best tool in some cases. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed crafting tooltips blinking on and off in real-time mode. (Thanks olatuf!)
Fixed line of sight passing through blocked terrain. (Thanks Ashery!)
Fixed an issue where burning certain containers would result in a new container. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fixed an issue with magical properties when using the new wisp mechanic. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fixed liquid containers not being available for the magical "Aptitude" property. (Thanks DerSimmon!)
Fixed "Advancing Island Time" not showing a progress bar in multiplayer.
Fixed multiplayer desyncs related to frequent player connections and disconnections to the server.
Fixed multiplayer desyncs related to crafting an item and using it within 16 milliseconds of its creation.
Fixed multiplayer desyncs related to packet data getting corrupted.
Fixed occasional errors when closing the game while connected to a multiplayer server.
Fixed getting stuck if the server shuts down while a player in on the game over screen.
Fixed multiplayer desyncs related to players sailing to and from the same island within a single session.
Fixed a timed-out interrupt showing up after canceling the "Unable to Join Game" interrupt.
Fixed the sleeping/resting/player screens connecting getting "stuck" in multiplayer games.
Fixed the game getting stuck at "Finalizing Island" when trying to load a corrupted save.
Fixed an inspection error when traveling to another island. (Thanks DerSimon!)
Fixed issues related to ranged attacks in multiplayer dedicated servers.
Fixed several items spawning incorrectly on merchants of the wrong island type.
Fixed graphical issues when placing tiles underneath doors. (Thanks TheLukeyBoi!)
Fixed dryads spawning on water. (Thanks DerSimon!)

Balance

Increased the chances of getting resources when gathering (at low skill levels) but also increased the skill/tier bonuses required to gather multiple resources in one action.
Dismantled item quality will now be impacted greater by the base item's quality (so exceptional items will now lead to more exceptional items for example).
Decreased base merchant spawn rate and limit.
Aberrant versions of creatures will now only be able to spawn naturally at double their normal spawning reputation (capped to -64,000).
Digging failures will now provide skill gains more commonly.
The fishing skill will now provide more effectiveness when attempting to cast in empty water (previously more RNG-based).

Modding

Fixed the +mod command installing the latest version of the types and messing up the mod.json "waywardVersion" property. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed typing errors when building mods.

Mods

TARS

Fixed "Move to Player" dropdown box not updating when in multiplayer games.
Fixed errors after TARS travels to another island when in Survival mode.
Fixed TARS getting stuck if it already explored all the surrounding islands when in Survival mode.

[ 2021-12-31 23:29:36 CET ] [ Original post ]

Wayward Major Update "Horizons" Released!

Twas the day before that Christmas thing, when all through Steam; not a creature was stirring, except for a Wayward release! We are pleased to announce the release of our 11th major update on Steam entitled "Horizons". Wayward is also a part of the Steam Winter Sale this year at -20% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/379210/Wayward/ Take a peek at what you can expect to see in this release: https://youtu.be/jgahWzMnVuI The preview video only shows a small portion of the features in this release, so if you are brave enough, venture down further to the wall o' text:

New

Added a new "islands" dialog, acting as a world map. It's unlocked when obtaining a sea-worthy vessel, which allows you to travel to inspect and travel to nearby islands.
You can now sail to any island within a certain distance, the travel time and cost dependant on the distance traveled.
Several islands can now be loaded at a time, allowing for quicker travel and allowing players in multiplayer games to be on different islands from each other.
Added a new "Seafaring" skill which increases travel distances, reduces hunger and thirst costs when traveling, and more.
Added a new "Volcanic" island type and biome with new resources, tiles, interactions, and creatures.
Added the ability to assign quickslots with tool-based actions (similar to "Carve with Tool" previously from the action menu). Alternatively, you can perform actions here by opening a new menu as well with "Shift + Q or Shift + Right Click". These actions will automatically pick the best tool for the given action.
Added ability to assign action menu actions to the quickslot bar.
A new item quality, "Relic", has been added. Relics have a high amount of magical properties, but have low starting durability and are dropped exclusively from aberrant creatures and treasure chests.
Added a "Rejoin as a new player" button to the death screen when dying in multiplayer games that have "clear ghost data on leave" option enabled.
Added a "Respawn in Casual Mode" button to the death screen when you die while in a permadeath mode so you can continue playing your save.
Merchant NPCs will now spawn and restock based on the number of buildings (walls/floors) constructed on an island, and will decrease in odds the further out you are from your starting island.
Added a couple of new craftable "scarecrows" that you can place down to prevent or reduce the likelihood of creatures spawning and/or movement around them (depending on the creature).
Added a new armor set of "armored scale" with unique properties/usefulness.
Added needles for all types of metal.
Added a pangolin creature to the new "Volcanic" island type.
Added mysterious and coveted "Dryad", a plant-like creature with unique properties and loot.
Added "Master of All" milestone and milestone modifier for getting all skills to 100%.
Added the "Traitor" milestone and milestone modifier.
Added a new form of grass called "Tanglehead", spread throughout the arid and volcanic islands types. Dirt will no longer be native to arid islands as a result.
Added a new magical property "Regeneration", which repairs/restores durability on items over time.
Added a new magical property, "Aptitude", which multiplies its effectiveness in crafts.
Added a new interaction with wisps.
The main menu buttons and tabs across all menus now have associated icons to improve UX.
Sailing to new islands now raises your cartography skill.
Starting at 40% cartography skill, the islands map and item tooltips now show which map items are associated with each island.
Introduced the concept of spores to mushrooms and ferns.
There are now non-tattered versions of shirts and pants that are available to craft.
Added an "Open Backups Folder" button to the save data section in the options menu.
You can now drag and drop save files onto the game to import them.
Added +dev command line switch to dedicated servers to enable developer mode.

Improvements

The quality of terrain (including fertile soil) now affects the speed at which plants grow. The better the quality, the faster the growth.
The island name, game options, modifiers, and any quests are now displayed on game start and arrival at a new island.
The pause menu has been updated to show the island name and modifiers separately from the pause status and menu options.
You can now quickslot multiple of the same item (to assign them different actions).
You can now use crafting quickslots even when you no longer have the item.
Quickslots have been partially moved to the new UI system, enabling the ability to move them to any edge of the screen. The default position in new saves is the bottom.
Added three more quickslots to the quickslot bar.
Quickslots now have a highlight animation when being used.
Islands now have randomized names.
Sped up menu animations, removed some "instant" menu animations because they caused flashing.
Converted "gathering" to chopping and mining. A tool's damage type will no longer affect resource gathering as tools will now have their own "Chop" and "Mine" properties.
"Carve With Tool", now simply "Butcher", as well as all the new tool/auto action will now use protected items unless they are at 0 durability and will warn you before breaking if you have the option enabled.
"Chop" is now the default action for axes (except for tin-based tools) instead of "Carve", now named "Butcher".
The "Carve" action is now called "butcher" to reduce confusion of its purpose.
Non-consumed required items can now be used in crafting while protected when they are over 0 durability (cannot be destroyed in the craft).
Added a multiplayer option to delete ghost data when players leave (so players can rejoin as a new character).
You can now customize the order of menu bar buttons, and even remove buttons or add new dividers if you wish.
Items now mention when they are used as part of a craft in the tooltip under "uses".
All island types now have a unique fog of war color/tint.
When starting a multiplayer game/server, only auto-pause the game when the turn mode is Real-time.
Ghosts can now travel to previously visited islands.
Reworked menu tabs highlighting to work based on distance, rather than just appearing as active when on screen.
The disabled mod warning will now be cleared after going into the mod menu.
The "quests" and "notes" menu bar buttons are now hidden until you have gained at least one quest/note in any game.
There are now tooltips for item/action menus that explain how to use them in conjunction with quickslots.
Loading screens that previously showed progress as a percentage now show a progress bar.
Removed some loading animations in cases where they would be near-instant.
Removed lag spikes when players join or leave multiplayer games.
Removed the max saves limitation. You can now have as many saves as your disk space can fit.
The "continue game" button on the main menu now shows the name and preview image of the last-played game.
Increased fade-in speed when starting a game or when traveling to other islands.
Players that are ghosts no longer affect turns in simulated turn mode.
Reorganized the options menu and added additional tabs to make it easier to find things.
The gameplay section of the bindings menu is now split into additional sections, "Items", "Quickslots", and "Context Menu."
Improved the layout of the dedicated server menu, and cleaned up the code allowing messages to display.
The sections of the bindings menu are now collapsible and start out collapsed.
The message dialog's close icon is now displayed as a "minimize" icon when messages are assigned to a quadrant.
You can now craft snowmen with wooden poles or branches. (Thanks Ashery!)
Decreased the footprint/size of action menus slightly.
Added an animation to multiplayer servers being shown.
Reduced size of "Reached max backup limit" dedicated server messages.
Merchants will now move when players idle while facing them, giving players a chance to escape situations where a merchant might block them in if they traded with them.
Improved reliability of the multiplayer "Run Connection Tests" button.
Tweaked the look of disabled elements when UI opacity is disabled.
Added better item cloning/syncing for dug up crafted tiles and flooring. (Thanks Ashery!)
"Collect Object with Hands" is now named "Pickup Doodad". Badderlocks and piles of rocks are now gathered normally instead of needing to "collect" them.
Improved the graphics for wooden gates, especially when opened so that they are more apparent that they are open.
Increased performance of the main menu & load game menu when many large saves exist.

Balance

Merchant NPCs will no longer spawn completely randomly when a new island is generated but rather can spawn near abandoned houses and other pre-generated templates (in addition to player-built bases).
Increased the spawn cap of merchant NPCs and is based on the number of buildings (walls/floors) are constructed on an island.
Giant rats and spiders no longer spawn at 0 reputation (at the start) on coastal islands.
Aberrant creatures will no longer spawn at neutral (0) reputation, meaning they won't spawn on world generation with default reputation settings.
Increased amount of guaranteed items that are in treasure map treasure chests.
Sharks will no longer be aggressive towards players that are not in water.
Lit doodads (campfires, furnaces, etc.) and fires can now produce hotter temperatures (depending on their fire stage/level of stoking). (Thanks Anketam!)
Found/looted items will no longer be guaranteed to disassemble to their exact quality; however, rarely, they can surpass its quality.
You can now swim to other islands without a boat once reaching 80% swimming skill.
Friendly merchants will no longer walk over plants that can be trampled.
Re-balanced many weapon/tool gathering capabilities with the new "Chop" and "Mine" properties applied. There will be a bigger gap between the two depending on the weapon/tool. Many weapons will perform worse as tools now as a result.
Scales and animal hides no longer count as "fabric". Other fabric types and sources now drop and are found more commonly to compensate for this.
There is now a chance of dismantling items into one higher quality, but also a greater chance of producing lower qualities as a trade-off.
Tweaked resource gathering item quality slightly so that quality items drop a bit more frequently at lower skill/tool tier levels especially for resources that have an increased quality.
Increased the extra durability given with the "Crafter" milestone modifier. Durability is now doubled (up from 1.4).
You can no longer gain multiple skill points (decreasing reputation each time) per single chop/mine/gather action.
Chop and Mining (previously gather) actions reputation loss will now be affected by tool's action tiers.
Magical reputation properties will no longer get rerolled between benignity/malignity when transmogrified (this is reserved for "altering").
Iron has been made slightly rarer, while limestone has been made a bit more common on ice cap islands.
Certain plants have been removed from the "Arid" islands types and moved to the new "Volcanic" island type.
Lava has been made rarer in coastal and arid island types.
Cotton bolls will now dismantle into cotton and cotton seeds.
Lockpicks can now be crafted directly from cactus spines instead of having to craft a cactus needle first.
Increased the time you can be without seeing a merchant NPC before it has a chance to wander away.
Increased weight bonus granted from boats' paddle action tier by 2.5x.
Boats' paddle action tiers no longer decrease the stamina reduction of carrying too much weight while sailing.
Reduced hot and cold insulation on scale armor.
Lockpicks now require two needle-like (or spines) to craft (up from 1).

Bug Fixes

Fixed recipes not being discovered properly from adjacent containers.
Fixed merchant NPCs able to be spawned inside blocked doodads like walls.
Fixed entities standing on walkable doodads rendering above tall doodads. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed the magical reputation properties not being properly accounted for when doing reputation cap calculations. (Thanks SMMFO!)
Fixed quicklotted items automatically restocking items that were already quickslotted in another slot, causing multiple issues. (Thanks Neo Blitz!)
Fixed a game freeze when resetting chat filters. (Thanks Luxodjen!)
Fixed some cases where crafting/dismantle highlights were not updating properly. (Thanks Anketam!)
Fixed back equipment rendering over top of tall doodads when standing on top of a doodad and behind another doodad. (Thanks TheLukeyBoi!)
Removed most action shortcuts due to inconsistencies and issues caused by this system and replaced with the new action quickslot system.
Fixed dragging quickslots dropping the item on the ground instead of clearing the quickslot.
Fixed the old/new tooltips being able to overlap each other on equipment.
Fixed possibility of items breaking without prompts being shown in some rare cases.
Fixed no tools being effective for gathering tile events (honey fungus, tumbleweeds, etc.). (Thanks Ashery!)
Fixed quick moving items (with Shift + Left Click) ignoring filtering. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed shutting down multiplayer games sometimes showing "Lost connection" errors instead of "Server shutdown".
Fixed the tooltip describing why you're unable to join a multiplayer server only showing when you're not hovering the server's metadata.
Fixed many actions being performed when they shouldn't have been able to (without any visual feedback and sometimes passing turns) in multiplayer games.
Fixed a few WebGL memory leaks.
Fixed occasional errors when joining games from the multiplayer menu.
Fixed a rare multiplayer desync that could occur when players were joining a server.
Fixed exploits related to crafted tiles and flooring. (Thanks Ashery!)
Fixed multiplayer desyncs related to updating options.
Fixed the mercantile note not triggering for all instances of starting trades. (Thanks Ashery!)
Fixed miscellaneous UI data sometimes not being synced to the server in multiplayer games, based on update order.
Fixed some quickslot bugs when loading very old saves.
Fixed containers within chests getting extra reduced weight. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed an issue where large, contiguous regions of temperature producers could cause a stack overflow.
Fixed some buttons with only an icon no longer having a background.
Fixed instances where certain items were spawning on merchants in the wrong island type.
Fixed status effects not updating immediately when moving between cave and overworld
Fixed status effects not updating when teleporting.
Fixed rare multiplayer desyncs related to random map templates.
Fixed the craft action not having a tooltip when inspected.
Potentially fixed exporting large save games freezing the game indefinitely.
Fixed errors loading certain saves for games created on version 2.5.7 or lower.
Fixed a brief menu flash when exiting a game or canceling out of the pause menu.
Fixed featherweight not being applied properly to inherited items. (Thanks Ashery!)
Fixed the messages dialog's scrollbar being too far over in small UI scales.
Fixed the island at -1,0 always having the same seed as 0,0. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed doodads/tile events being converted to the wrong doodads/tile events when upgrading older saves.
Fixed dropdown-based settings getting reverted when going back into custom game settings after accepting them.
Fixed resetting unlocked crafting recipes not working.
Fixed allowing protected items when copying maps. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed an issue with the raft animation.

Technical

Migrated to ISteamNetworkingMessages for Steam Multiplayer
Improved performance of moving/dropping items to/from containers and general performance of having containers/inventory opened. (Thanks riftborn!)
Improved performance of crafting and dismantling items.
Fixed various memory leaks throughout the game.
Reduced the Wayward directory and download size by 60%.
The old hook system has been removed in favor of events. Additional event buses have been added to assist in adoption.
Gameplay modifiers have been re-coded so that there can be separate instances for each island.
Synced particle effect simulation with game tick rate.
Added an option to enable save compression, which can reduce save sizes by up to 80%.
Reduced size of large games by up to 50%.
Saving and loading large games is now faster.
Tile rendering has been optimized to render only what is in view, leading to increased performance and faster loading.
Upgraded Wayward to Electron 16.05.
Increased speed of joining multiplayer games by always sending clients a compressed save.
Added a +syncChecks dedicated server argument.
Fixed wayward.cmd file to make running wayward commands easier not being in the "wayward/bin" directory.
The loading screen UI and the code that queues it are now separated, along with prompt UI and the code that queues up prompts for the user.
Added a warning when attempting to launch newer development branch games on older build time as it can lead to corruption.
Removed the "limitFPS" launch option as it no longer can function.
Updated UI frameworks.

Modding

Mods can now configure the order of custom menu bar buttons, placing them anywhere within the vanilla menu bar button order, or even not showing them at all by default.
Added support for modding in new UI quadrant components.

Mods

TARS

Changed dialog key bind to "," and toggle to "." (to not conflict with the new Islands dialog key bind)
Fixed getting stuck while attempting to till a tile with a tamed creature on it.
Now knows that sleeping with torches in a bad idea.
Fixed not planting seeds (or tilling the ground) while in "Gardener" mode in some instances.
Fixed recovery threshold not updating immediately after changing the UI slider.
Fixed recovery thresholds not being set to an appropriate level on new games.
Fixed trying to build objects over cave entrances.
Fixed issues organizing the base when there's nothing to organize.
Fixed errors related to loading games that previously had Quantum Burst Mode enabled.
Fixed TARS running out of memory and crashing the game when trying to dismantle certain items.
Will now craft and use bedding items to rest with.
Will no longer get stuck when its boat breaks.
Fixed memory leaks.
Added a "Move To" panel to the dialog that lets you instruct TARS to move to a specified island, player, NPC, terrain, or object.
Added a quadrant component to make it easy to view the status of TARS without requiring a dialog. It defaults to the bottom right of the screen.
Fixed being able to attack without passing turns.
Added "Terminator" mode.
Added "Quest" mode.

[ 2021-12-24 18:15:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

Wayward Newsletter #10

Hey all, Welcome to the 10th Wayward Newsletter where we will be focusing on previews of some of the features coming up in the next major release, beta 2.11, codenamed "Island Hopper" due to one specific feature, island maps!

Island (World) Map

There is a new "islands" dialog, unlocked when obtaining a sea-worthy vessel, which allows you to travel or inspect nearby islands. One of the biggest features of this release is this new interface and functionality. This is essentially a world map of all the different islands you have explored and are waiting to be explored. [previewyoutube=IUT1D9vxFro;full][/previewyoutube] Another addition that works amazing with this new system is that several islands can now be loaded at a time, allowing for quicker travel and allowing players in multiplayer games to be on different islands from each other. This is a game-changer if you ever found yourself stranded when logging back on because other people traveled without you. The range of travel is based on your (new) seafaring skill.

Volcanic Island

Going along with the theme of traveling and seafaring is the new volcanic island. As with all different island types, there are several unique creatures, plants, and features to this island type.

One of those is the new creatures is the hardy pangolin. So hardy in fact that you can make a new set of armor from its unique "armored" scales.

Improved Quickslots & Action System

It wouldn't be a major update without some quality of life and UI improvements. That's where these new quickslot/action systems come into play. Here are a couple of entries from the changelog regarding this:

Added ability to assign action menu actions to the quickslot bar.

Added the ability to assign quickslots with tool-based actions (similar to "Carve with Tool" previously from the action menu). Alternatively, you can perform actions here by opening a new menu as well with "Shift + Q or Shift + Right Click".

This is still a work-in-progress (as with everything you see here). With this new system, you should be able to do every action with a single keypress instead of two or three in many cases. You also can now move the quickslot container around to any corner/edge of the screen like all the other UI elements. We also threw a few more quickslots in for good measure. Here's a video showcasing some of this: [previewyoutube=fAKwORSaik4;full][/previewyoutube]

Relic Quality

Relic quality items are very rare drops from treasure chests and aberrant creatures. They have the potential to have more magical properties than even mastercrafted items, but they start with low durability. You'll have to practice the three R's to get an amazing item: reinforce, repair, and refine! Happy hunting!

Merchant Villages

Merchant NPCs also got an overhaul! They will no longer spawn completely randomly when a new island is generated, but rather can spawn near abandoned houses and other pre-generated templates (in addition to player-built bases). They will spawn and restock based on the number of buildings (walls/floors) constructed on an island, and will decrease in odds the further out you are from your starting island, meaning you can indeed now create merchant villages utilizing these new systems.

Vote on New Features!

This newsletter just teases just a few of the changes coming up. Stay tuned for more! As always, check out the feature voting page to vote on upcoming features, now with a "sort by new" feature added in: https://www.waywardgame.com/vote

Steam Autumn Sale

If you are reading this before December 1st, the Steam Autumn sale is already underway where Wayward is currently -20% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/379210/Wayward/

Development Branch Updated

After a long pause on the development branch, as of this week, these changes and more are also now available right now in the development branch if you don't mind being a guinea pig while we continue working on it and pushing out changes nightly. More information on how to switch branches linked here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=721479594 Happy Friday! Stay tuned for more!

[ 2021-11-26 23:52:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.10.9 Released

Well, it looks like 2.10.x had another release in it after all. We might continue with this new workflow as we work on the next major in tandem with these smaller, minor releases going forward. This minor patch mostly consists of bug fixes and other small improvements to the game. Enjoy! More news on beta 2.11 coming soon (in the form of a newsletter). Bonus Promo: As part of the Roguelike Celebration this year, Steam is doing a special sales event called, "Roguelike Celebration Event & Alumni Sale" where Wayward is -25% off right now. Grab yourself a roguelike or roguelike-adjacent game now and get to dying!
Bonus Tip: Find yourself doing repetitive crafting and dismantling of the same item? Why not quickslot it and set the default action to "Craft" or "Dismantle"?

Improvements

Lit doodads will now be put out if the tile it is on turns into shallow water. (Thanks Matthew Cline!)
Increased the distance between the draggable dialog anchor and the scrollbar in the messages dialog, to match the other dialogs.
Wayward now disables high contrast and inverted color modes from Windows being applied in-game.

Balance

You can no longer start fires on/in doodads on shallow water. (Thanks Matthew Cline!)

Bug Fixes

Fixed items in containers that are protected from being automatically quickslotted. (Thanks Benzi!)
Fixed skill milestones overwriting each other. (Thanks Anketam!)
Fixed an issue where stat bonuses (from milestone modifiers and magical items) were introducing incorrect values in some situations.
Fixed magical aspect rerolling magical sub-properties (this was meant for magical binding only).
Fixed an error when canceling rest with the cancel bind (or escape by default). (Thanks Matthew Cline!)
Fixed the riddle button appearing for drawn maps that don't have riddles.
Fixed treasure map copies not displaying the riddle. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed instances of doubled-up and erroneous sound effects happening while the "Keep Sort Active" option was enabled.
Fixed an action menu pop-up when changing directions while an item menu was up. (Thanks Ratha Wynter!)
Fixed interrupts staying up after dying. (Thanks WinterBearPark!)
Fixed the mapping dialog showing the wrong option selected for the theme.
Fixed quickslots/equipment UI not being highlighted in the Starter Quest.
Fixed UI being positioned differently when UI effects were disabled.
Fixed scrolling elements no longer fading out on the top and bottom.
Fixed item requirements for copying maps not updating when moving items from a container. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed cases where item dragged would stay in that mode after performing certain actions like dropping. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed the dismantling tab attempting to use protected items from chests. (Thanks Benzi!)
Fixed "Reload Game" not working under "Developer Tools" in the options menu. (Thanks Tek!)
Fixed the wrong quality shown in messages when drawing/copying maps.
Fixed pouring water on yourself without medical reasons increasing your anatomy skill.
Fixed reinforcing items (while facing them) not cycling through items. (Thanks Shirow!)
Fixed overfished tiles not being able to be replenished and creatures not spawning from dropping food in water. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed running sync commands not switching between minimum/all.

Technical

Upgraded Wayward to use Electron 15.1.0.
Added a button to clear the cache of generated sprites.

Modding

Doors and gates are now fully moddable. (Thanks Tek!)

[ 2021-10-17 18:39:06 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.10.8 Released

Today we are releasing what is most likely the last minor patch in the 2.10.x series. We have been working on this release while also working on our next major update to the game, which is why this took a bit longer to get out. We thought it might be better if we do the last minor releases like this going forward so there's less of a gap in between releases. There's plenty of quality of life improvements here and some substantial balance changes among all the bug fixes. Enjoy! Let us know if you run into any issues. There will be more news to share on beta 2.11.0 coming soon! Bonus Promo: Come hang out on the Discord! Although we have a smaller community, its still the most active spot for Wayward discussion, especially in periods of less activity like this. Bonus Tip: If you are attempting to kill a creature and melee attacking isn't working out for you, "there's more than one way to skin a cat", or probably giant rat in this case. Here are a few other options: 1. Use traps. Setting down multiple traps and guiding the creatures into them will keep you safe from damage while dealing it to them instead. The damage and success are based on your "Trapping" skill. 2. Craft or find better armor and gear. Mitigate as much damage to yourself while dealing as much damage as possible to your foes. 3. Used ranged weapons or throwing. Slings, bows, spears. All can be used to deal damage while at a distance. The damage and accuracy are based on your "Tactics" or "Throwing" skills. 4. Tame other creatures and have them fight for you! If you have tamed creatures, they will protect their master as long as they are content.

New

Added an option to disable UI opacity (for better performance).

Improvements

Protected items no longer get automatically set as a quickslot item (so repetitive actions can now be done). (Thanks Anketam!)
Creatures will eventually stop attacking other creatures in the case that they are not dealing damage or healing them.
Glaciers will no longer be referred to as "stone walls" or "cliffs" in treasure map riddles. (Thanks TheLukeyBoi!)
Added "repair", "copy map", and "read map" as valid actions for the "Operator" milestone.
Creatures that cannot be tamed normally but will accept items will now reveal as such in messages.
Creatures will no longer attempt to move out of fire if they were immune to it.
There are now audiovisual cues when players or creatures are healing other creatures with their attacks in the case they are already at full health.
Plants that die will now drop their resources.
Removed snow/ice items from merchant NPCs in biomes that were not suitable.
Puddles and blood will no longer block planting seeds and will be cleared after being planted.
A message is now shown when the game fails to load save data.
Added more random events related to plants.
Boglings can no longer create swamp over cave entrances. (Thanks Anketam!)
Lava beetles can no longer spawn lava on top of lava or cave entrances.
Glassblowing will now use kilns instead of furnaces.

Bug Fixes

Fixed efficacy percentages returning the wrong values depending on the order of items. (Thanks Anketam!)
Fixed moving items between quickslots no longer allowing you to set default actions on it in multiplayer games and causing other issues.
Fixed shift-clicking to move items across containers sometimes focusing on the item filter.
Fixed an issue where random events that happen to plants could only happen if they were on fertile soil (or were fertilized in some other way). (Thanks Ursa!) (Thanks Azhukar!)
Fixed magical items not working correctly after upgrading them. (Thanks TheLukeyBoi!)
Fixed Steam Workshop mods not being loaded on Linux.
Fixed tooltips not showing or separating item quality bonuses. (Thanks Ratha Wynter!)
Fixed a desync when attempting to enchant an item that already has some magical properties. (Thanks Shirow!)
Fixed being able to refine items with 0 durability. (Thanks Daxt!)
Fixed disassembling items not giving back the proper items when going past a single level of disassembly. (Thanks Lukewarm Badger!)
Fixed auto gathering not getting the proper item tier. (Thanks Shirow!)
Fixed creatures attempting to move out of fire when they couldn't move in the first place. (Thanks pkmx!)
Fixed the "hoarding" magical property not working.
Fixed several instances where doodads or tile events could attempt to spawn out of map bounds.
Fixed instances of messages and sound effects still being spawned when creatures failed to perform their special abilities due to tile restrictions.
You can no longer route water over cave entrances, fixing a one-way cave entrance issue when gathering water over a previously open cave entrance. (Thanks Oragepoilu!)
Fixed the defense tooltip including magical insulation as part of base insulation.
Fixed islands able to be duplicated when going to -1, -1. (Thanks pkmx!)
Fixed penguins not being able to produce eggs. (Thanks Ursa!)
Fixed a blank "taming length" showing in more information for the offering action in item tooltips. (Thanks mwebb759!)
Fixed desyncs related to traveling.
Fixed double stamina reductions happening when throwing items. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed errors caused by playing a game that previously had a mod running that added new items.
Fixed torches not being extinguished when jumping into water. (Thanks mwebb759!)
Fixed jumping and teleporting not closing the static containers. (Thanks mwebb759!)
Fixed living mushrooms being able to spawn mushrooms on improper tiles.
Fixed some UI not functioning correctly due to the messages UI attempting to load during traveling. (Thanks Lukewarm Badger!)
Fixed tiles not being checked under creatures who could not move.
Fixed a rare instance of equipping items that should have no effect on insulation causing total insulation changes. (Thanks Nobody Important!)
Fixed not being able to fuel high quality or magical torches and candles properly. (Thanks Anketam!)
Fixed Workshop syncing issues.
Fixed the attack action not applying the proper delay.
Fixed being able to light torches/candles while swimming (but in a different way this time). (Thanks mwebb759!)
Fixed lit torches being transferrable to containers while staying lit. (Thanks mwebb759!)
Fixed +console mode not working on Linux.
Fixed some tiepos. (Thanks Ursa!)
Fixed the dangerous throwing warning for protected items not getting the proper range.
Fixed the consistency of lockpicking naming. (Thanks Daxt!)

Balance

Aberrant creatures will now drop up to three (up from two) items from their loot group and will now have triple (up from double) the chance to drop non-guaranteed individual loot.
Reduced maximum aberrant health significantly via a hard cap (will only apply to newly spawned aberrants).
Creatures will now regenerate health slowly.
Increased the effectiveness of the "hoarding" magical property.
Hurling now adds to throw damage when using thrown weapons.
Increased the maximum range for magical "Power" items.
Reduced the chance for bare trees to regrow.
Giant rats can now drop shimmering fibers.

Technical

Wayward has been upgraded to Electron 14.0.1.
Fixed performance issues related to item decay/durability bars.
Improved performance of dropping many items.

Mods

TARS

Fixed walking over acid without the proper equipment/protection.
Fixed memory issues.
Fixed getting stuck when recovering stuck in certain situations.
Improved more status messages.
Learned to open messages in a bottle.
Will now look for items in containers in inventory.
Learned that aberrant slither suckers are bad.
Will now know about protected items.
Fixed sometimes getting stuck when items are in backpacks in chests.
Learned how to read books.
Improved objective planning logic - take into account whether or not items are consumed during crafting.
Fixed not loading on Linux.

More space will be cleared for creature lines and doodads will be removed.
Changing your "difficulty" will no longer delete your inventory or restore your stats.
You can now change your equipment and skill levels independently.

[ 2021-09-19 18:58:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.10.7 Released

Hey all, This week's focus has been on fixing up the remaining reported issues and working on balance changes. The balance changes mostly consist of aberrant and high-tier creature damage. Previously, they were dealing too little damage due to skill/gear power creep and previous balance changes. This should straighten out the issues spotted by several players. Let me know if you spot anything out of whack with these changes as they are quite significant in some cases/scenarios. The intention is to require you to think about what types of armor to use in certain temperature scenarios against certain types of creatures. We also added in two new magical item properties. They were added due to an issue spotted where in some instances, items could roll an incorrect amount of properties just because not enough could be applied to certain items. These are generic enough that they should fit most items; thus, solving the issue. View the changelog for more information on these and more. Bonus Promo: Tons of work has gone into the unofficial Wiki as of late. Check out some of the recent changes here. Bonus Tip: You can grab items out of fire/lava using tongs or while wearing the proper hand protection without getting burned. This is useful in some cases where you are picking up items that have caught on fire or are creating charcoal intentionally.

New

Added a new magical property, "Offering", which increases taming length when used on creatures. Aberrant creatures will be tamed 100% of the time when using a matching item that the creature accepts.
Added a new magical property "Hurling", that increases an item's thrown damage, range, and reduces stamina usage.

Improvements

Puddles will now provide bonuses for plant growth/speed (and fertility in some cases) unless it is seawater.
Named items now appear by name in item lists, rather than by what they are. (Thanks Killpocalips!)
With the inclusion of the new magical properties, there should no longer be rare instances of magical items rolling with the incorrect amount of properties.
Highlighted UI/item elements are now animated in a performant way when disabling UI effects as to not sacrifice usability.
Ranged attacks will now reveal the range the item traveled.
Thrown messages will now reveal the stamina cost in throwing the item.

Balance

Increased mid to end game creature's damage significantly.
Reduced the damage bonus that aberrant creatures had against resistances/vulnerabilities.
Removed the creature damage cap for aberrant creatures, but reduced their maximum damage output slightly (due to other damage changes).
Removed blunt resistances on iron armor.
Reduced blunt vulnerabilities and increased base defense on bronze armor.
Reduced the goat's minimum damage slightly.
Decreased rarity of blackplate items.

Bug Fixes

Fixed inspection not working until reloading the game. (Thanks MATOSCH83!)
Fixed milestone and skill inspections flashing.
Fixed "Discovered" amount not updating in milestone inspection.
Fixed damage type values in the defense tooltip including the skill modifier.
Fixed "Apocryphal" not being possible to obtain. (Thanks beuteugeu!)
Fixed protected items producing a horizontal scroll bar. (Thanks mwebb759!)
Fixed chests staying open while descending/ascending cave entrances or teleporting. (Thanks mwebb759!)
Fixed requiring to press enter twice to rename something. (Thanks Matthew Cline!)
Fixed acid and skeletal remains from spawning on water or the void.
Fixed being able to light torches while swimming. (Thanks mwebb759!)
Fixed calculated insulation values not updating in the tooltip when changing equipment.
Fixed ghosts being affected by status effects.
Fixed creatures being able to spawn out of bounds if the player was near the edge of the map.
Fixed blood appearing on void tiles. (Thanks mwebb759!)
Fixed joining a multiplayer game overwriting local characters.
Fixed highlighted items never being unhighlighted when UI effects are disabled.
Fixed issues with publishing Steam Workshop mods. (Hotfixed)

Technical

Reduced memory usage when playing in a multiplayer game.
Wayward has been updated to Electron 13.1.2.

Mods

TARS

Fixed not being able to distinguish which tiles can be tilled.
Will now open doors and gates instead of picking them up.
Fixed getting stuck in "Tidy" mode.
Will now move items off the ground if it's blocking a build location.
Fixed issues when trying to carve corpses with sharp rocks.
Fixed trying to attach purified containers of water to water stills.
Will now run away from all aberrant creatures when it doesn't have adequate equipment.
No longer hordes snow in the inventory.
Will now try to use offal before they decay.
Now detects trap door spiders near the base when looking for nearby enemies (cheater!).
Fixed getting stuck when trying to eat food from a chest while encumbered.
Improved status messages.
Improved sailing logic.
Disabled movement and item-related warning interrupts when enabled.
Fixed attempting to craft while in water.
Fixed getting stuck when attempting to build 0 durability objects.
Improved stat recovery logic.
Fixed getting stuck moving stuff in between chests.
Fixed not knowing how to build items in rare cases.
Fixed issues making items when more than one anvil is near the base.
Added "Quantum Burst" mode.

Clear paint mode when closing paint panel.

Added more levels of difficulties and armor/skill sets for testing scenarios.

[ 2021-06-24 02:42:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.10.6 Released

Patch night! This week we are taking a stab at fixing up some more issues, some of which have unsurprisingly been in the game undiscovered for years. Always great to get those ones sorted out! TARS fans will also get a kick out of this release with a heavy overhaul and a giant bunch of new features. Wayward technological singularity is closely approaching! The beta 2.10.x patches will be slowing down coming up as we focus more on our next big major release, but we still have a bit to go yet! Bonus Tip: You can quickly equip items in your inventory or containers by hovering over them and pressing "E", you can quickly drop them by pressing "Q", and you can quickly move them (to an opened container for example) by pressing "Shift + Left Click". These binds can all be changed in the options. Bonus Promo: Anketam has created a new spoiler-filled, "Mastercrafting Guide" available on Steam here. It goes over the requirements and strategies to create mastercrafted items. Check it out if you don't mind the spoilers!

New

Added an option to unfocus the chat box after sending a message.

Improvements

Items that use durability as a "charge" like bait will now take into account item quality, making quality items allow for more "charges". (Thanks warriorsforever482!)

Balance

Reduced amount of ash needed to create ash cement, reducing the total ash cost for making flooring/walls.
Increased the item quality cap for aberrant loot/corpse resources, leading to higher quality items in the late game and/or far traveled islands. (Thanks Nobody Important!)

Bug Fixes

Fixed multiple desyncs related to temperature and melting tiles.
Fixed the treasure hunting note not being possible to get. (Thanks mwebb759!)
Fixed building over water producing incorrect items when dug back up. (Thanks mwebb759!)
Fixed aberrant corpses getting a double bonus for resource quality from far traveled islands.
Fixed backpacks that were destroyed staying open. (Thanks mwebb759!)
Fixed torches staying lit when getting off of a raft/boat when paddling or teleporting. (Thanks mwebb759!)
Fixed being able to open up multiple of the same dialog after spamming the keybind.
Fixed an error when typing a "\" in a dropdown.
Fixed the chat box/filters being cut off at certain interface scales when messages were expanded.
Fixed some item tooltips showing the wrong stat amounts for consuming them. (Thanks Anketam!)
Fixed setting a bindable to the "/" key appearing as "undefined".
Fixed highlighted items sometimes not being unhighlighted when interrupts are shown.
Fixed an error when joining a server while the server browser refreshed.
Fixed temperature tooltips showing even when Debug Tools were disabled.
Fixed multiple desyncs related to tilled tiles.
Fixed walking into blocked tiles decreasing map durability (and raising skill/stats). (Thanks mwebb759!)

Mods

Fixed inspection errors when loading the mod in multiplayer.

TARS

Now starts up faster when in a multiplayer game.
Now supports multiple play modes. "Survival" is the default.
Added a "Tidy Up" mode.
Changed default "T" bind to open the TARS dialog. Shift + T will immediately toggle TARS.
Added a way to tell TARS to acquire any item via the UI.
Fixed being unable to acquire complex items.
Added new options that will allow controlling what TARS does.
Will always pick the optimal item when gathering, carving, and harvesting.
Fixed issues when reinforcing equipment.
Will only reinforce items that are worth doing so.
Will now repair tongs when they have low durability.
Will now cleanup swamp tiles near base.
Will now prefer eating food from chests when near base.
Fixed item upgrade logic not working for all tools.
Will now know how to use orbs of influence.
Will no longer defend against adjacent creatures if health/equipment is low.
Now has smarter health, stamina, hunger, and thirst recovery logic.
Will now look for items in chests that are going to decay soon and try to do something with them.
Will now hunt creatures near the base once it has good equipment.
Learned how to attack fish.
Learned how to disassemble items.
Learned how snow works.
Will no longer build water stills on ice cap islands.
Added a "Gardener" mode.

Modding

The Debug Tools "TabDialog" has been moved to the base game and can now be used in other mods.

Technical

Updated Wayward to Electron 13.0.1.
Fixed memory leaks related to UI highlighting.
Speed up leaving multiplayer games.

[ 2021-06-10 04:27:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

Live Q & A Stream

Hey all, Happy Saturday! Hope everybody is enjoying the latest major release and latest minor patch released earlier in the week! We still have lots more to come with "Seafarer+", so stay tuned! In the meantime, I'll be doing a live question and answer stream. [strike]If you are reading this, I'm live right now![/strike] The stream is now over! You can tune-in on the Steam broadcast page: https://steamcommunity.com/broadcast/watch/76561197977797435 Or via Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/drathy Or at the top of the Wayward store page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/379210/Wayward/

[ 2021-05-29 21:39:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.10.5 Released

Hey all, this week we have another batch of fixes and some more exciting new stuff ready for your consumption! Some of the later-game players will enjoy the bug fixes and improvements this time around with a fix to a particularly annoying flaw with Mastercrafted items and some bad quality distribution with harvesting, carving, and gathering. Take a peek at the changelog below and keep reporting issues you find. More to come in beta 2.10.6! Bonus Promo: Come hang out on the Discord! Although we have a smaller community, it's still the most active spot for Wayward discussion. Bonus Tip: Resting and sleeping work differently when playing a multiplayer game or setting the mode to "real-time" turns, in that performing the rest/sleep actions will no longer progress time (or pass turns). Its use is shifted towards a regenerative role exclusively in these modes.

New

Added a new magical component for altering magical stat/skill/reputation properties to a different stat/skill/reputation, instead of only being able to re-roll them to a different property entirely.

Added durability and decay bars to items for usability. (Thanks Sooner535{UFIP}!)

Improvements

Magical malignity and benignity properties are now combined into one type, making it so you can't roll both on a single item. (Thanks Anketam!)
Creatures will no longer spawn on the edges of a map. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Item "Dig" tiers will now affect gathered item quality (unless it's a flooring type tile or player-set tile).
The "Resting and Sleeping" help article now explains how they work in a multiplayer or real-time setting.
Improved error handling when loading old saves.

Balance

Increased the maximum value magical stat (strength, stamina, etc.) items can have.
Creatures will now lose some happiness when being damaged/hurt.

Bug Fixes

Fixed four property magic items not being possible from crafting. (Thanks Nobody Important!)
Fixed gathered/harvested returning too many superior quality items if your skill and/or tiers were too high among other issues. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed "Keep Sort Active" not working for containers when updates did not happen within it. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed aberrant damage not rounding up. (Thanks Nobody Important!)
Fixed tiles not melting in most instances.
Fixed heat sources created at night sometimes not being able to cause tiles to melt.
Fixed snow flooring not counting towards the "Explorer" milestone. (Thanks Anketam!)
Fixed various memory leaks.
Fixed a weight exploit when using boats within containers. (Thanks TheLukeyBoi!)
Fixed creatures being able to move outside of map bounds, causing errors. (Thanks Anketam!)
Fixed dug tiles not changing their quality after getting a quality set after the first dig/tile change event.
Fixed item quality always returning exact tile quality or random tile quality when digging (and only after the first dig), instead of distributing based on skill/tiers/tile quality.
Fixed desyncs related to temperature/melting tiles.
Removed the filter button from the dedicated server messages panel. (Thanks bearhiderug!)
Fixed being able to build and till over corpses.
Fixed rare stack overflow errors related to the input system.
Fixed some UI components not being removed correctly.
Fixed some UI not showing/or appearing cut off when placed in certain positions when UI effects were disabled. (Thanks Amax!)

Mods

TARS

Fixed TARS trying to build / plant seeds on preoccupied tiles.

Fixed a dialog memory leak.
Fixed tile paint options extending underneath the paint button.

[ 2021-05-27 03:18:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.10.4 Released

Hey everybody! This week we have another patch in the 2.10.x series that helps smooth some more issues out, but also adds quite a few balance changes in regards to bonuses for further travels, reputation, and aberrant creatures. There's still a few things on our list to address, but this should fix up some of the major stuff spotted this week. Take a peek in the changelog below! Bonus Promo: Struggling with getting started in Wayward? Check out my new Beginner's Guide video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G2_PGmSxU0 Check out the YouTube description or video chapters to skip to specific sections. Let me know if it is missing anything you are having issues with! Bonus Tip: Have you spawned on a smaller island with not a lot of resources? You are likely on an offshoot of a much bigger island. Traveling east is usually a pretty safe bet in these scenarios. You can either swim (with a lot of stamina) or create a raft and explore the seas awhile until you come across a much bigger island. Here's a visual of that:

Improvements

Newly exported steam workshop save games will be more reliable when importing the save.
Added "bird droppings" for chickens and penguins to use instead of "animal droppings". (Thanks Matthew Cline!)
Snakes will now accept eggs as offerings.
Buttons in non-item dialogs now appear with a background, distinguishing them from the dialog they're in.

Balance

Increased the odds of digging up better chest types the further you are away from your starting island when doing treasure maps.
Increased the chance of quality creature loot/corpse resources the further away you are from your starting island.
Decreased the threshold at which freezing/overheating can occur.
Water no longer freezes to ice and items will now decay within in the coastal caves.
Aberrant creatures now deal scaled damage instead of only 1 when dealing a chance hit and deal them more commonly.
Aberrant creatures are now more likely to perform their special abilities or resource drops.
Action tiers and kindling/tinder quality no longer give bonuses when lighting torches/candles. Their starting decay is set by the quality of the torch/candle.
Successfully taming a creature through offering will now provide benignity (on top of skill use bonus).
Taming aberrant creatures is now harder when not using offering/items. Previous, the difficulty was unchanged from normal creatures.
Taming aberrant creatures now provides double the reputation/benignity gain.
Increased difficulty of taming aberrant creatures via offering slightly.

Bug Fixes

Fixed item decay maximums not counting until observed. (Thanks Azhukar!)
Fixed save game mods importing the same save each game load. This fix only applies to newly created save game mods.
Fixed errors loading games after exporting save games to Steam Workshop.
Fixed multiple confirmation interrupts showing up when dismantling items. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed containers not updating their capacity when changed/re-balanced internally. (Thanks icecream!)
Fixed the path to tile bind pathing to the last location you pathed while holding down the preview bind instead of the location you clicked on. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed "Keep Sort Active" not working properly with durability. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed endurance and some other magical properties showing as "0" under some locales. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed equipment only being damaged when you were parrying. Cool. (Thanks Matthew Cline!)
Fixed the "Combat" note only appearing when you were parrying.
Fixed torches and candles not getting the proper decay amount based on quality/magical properties when ignited while equipped.
Fixed torches and candles not getting decay bonuses from their quality or magical properties when built on the ground before being lit.
Fixed the red decay outline/warning on items sometimes not showing or showing too early/late.
Fixed not being able to travel as a single person on a dedicated server. (Thanks Majestik!)
Fixed tooltips sometimes not showing after interrupt dialogs are hidden. (Thanks Azhukar!)
Fixed puddles being placable on void tiles. (Thanks Zillvr!)
Fixed items having decay that should not have. (Thanks Ratha Wynter!)
Fixed jittery animations and inaccuracy when dragging items within inventory/containers. (Thanks Skarn22!)
Fixed cases of items disappearing when moving to other islands (Thanks Cringe!)
Fixed "wayward +v" and "wayward +mod" commands no longer working.
Fixed incorrect doodad upgrade conversions from old versions.
Fixed incorrect creature HP upgrades from old versions.
Fixed incorrect modded creature upgrades from old versions.
Fixed seeds being exported with commas or other localized characters.

Modding

Wayward now ships with a "bin/wayward.cmd" file on Windows x64. Adding the bin folder to your PATH allows you to use the CLI synchronously via the "wayward" command (no extension required.)

Technical

Improved performance of walking to tile. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed InputManager producing too many logs.

[ 2021-05-15 03:37:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.10.3 Released

Another week, another round of fixes and improvements! Oh, and also a few new things thrown in for good measure. Bonus Promo: The feature voting page has been updated to include additions from beta 2.10 and add a couple dozen new frequently suggested additions/changes or completely new ideas from us to be voted on. Bonus Tip: Solar stills need containers attached to them to collect water. That is all. Short but sweet this week with more stuff in the works!

New

A back-up of your global save data and games will now be saved in your Wayward directory in case of Steam Cloud issues/corruptions.
Added a new interaction with the void.
Added a "savePath" launch option (for real this time - the previous option was command line only).

Improvements

Saves will no longer shift/move positions (get sorted) after importing them.
The inspect dialog now retains what was inspected the last time the game was played.
Speed up travel time by up to 5 seconds.
Renamed "saveDirectory" command line argument to "savePath".
Multiplayer build mismatch errors now provide human-readable messages.
You can now import multiple saves at the same time.

Bug Fixes

Fixed required items not being damaged in crafts. (Thanks warriorsforever482!)
Fixed weight reduction cascading past the first level of container. (Thanks Oragepoilu!)
Fixed fur clothing not having any set durability. (Thanks Alien!)
Fixed being able to sleep on a placed bedding item without a warning appearing when a lit torch/candle was equipped. (Thanks Terrapin!)
Fixed importing custom game options not working when default skill options were not changed randomly. (Thanks darkmane!)
Fixed magical illumination not working when being held. (Thanks Valdig!)
Fixed the default inspection dialog picking a seemingly random item in certain instances.
Fixed item drop key binds ignoring the item filter. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed equipment appearing in the wrong slot after traveling. (Thanks Cryomantic Cultist!)
Fixed interrupts not allowing tooltips to appear afterwards. (Thanks Azhukar!)
Fixed flying creatures not protecting their owners properly. (Thanks William!)
Fixed walk to tile errors when near the edge of the world. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed inventory shifting after traveling. (Thanks Nobody Important!)
Fixed wisps and pirate ghosts not being able to move when spawned in the void (using milestone modifiers or other means). (Thanks Valdig!)
Fixed multiplayer options becoming out of sync when closing and reopening a server.
Fixed some crafts showing that fire sources were needed for crafting them but weren't actually.
Fixed temperature producing creatures not removing their effects after death. (Thanks TheLukeyBoi!)
Fixed some items showing disassembly options in item tooltips incorrectly. (Thanks Oragepoilu!)
Fixed magical sorting not sorting magic "Power" items properly. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed hardware acceleration being unavailable for some older GPUs.
Fixed some instances of negative decimal numbers displaying with "+-" when language settings use comma for decimal numbers. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed container reference warnings caused by merchant NPCs spawning.
Fixed save data limitations on traveling.
Fixed the inspection dialog not working correctly after traveling and after using tile inspection in the previous set of islands.
Fixed the tile inspection overlay sprite staying when inspecting a tile, then inspecting an item afterwards.
Fixed tumbleweed errors produced when they are too close to the edge of a map.

Balance

Reduced coastal temperature variance/extremes slightly.
Increased the amount of loot possible from buried treasure chests the further out you are from your starting island.
Using open fire or enclosed fires (campfires, furnaces, etc.) in crafts/dismantling/repairing will now decay their strength slightly.

Technical

Fixed several UI-related memory leaks.
Reduced initial game memory usage by 154MB.
Modified the process of compiling/linking shaders to follow best practices.
Added several new GPU-based launch options in an effort to diagnose shader and context issues. (Thanks Ratha Wynter!)
Improved lost context handling.
Converted Electron code into TypeScript.

Modding

Fixed "requirejs" cache busting logic. (Thanks Amax!)

Mods

TARS

Reduced memory usage.

[ 2021-05-04 18:07:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.10.2 Released

Hey there, We have another batch of fixes ready for ya'll. We are still working on more improvements, additions, and balance tweaks as well, but our priority will continue to be fixing up any bugs and major issues that get discovered for the next little while. Please keep them coming! Bonus Tip: Did you know you can inspect items (by default with Shift + Right Click) and hover over certain properties to get more information on what they do?
Bonus Promo: Happy Wayward Day! Five years ago today, we made the choice to release Wayward on Steam to garner support and to build our community. At that time, while still a full game, there was limited content and not much point for the progression in the game. Years later, we have thousands of new items, creatures, terrain types, plants, and other objects collectively. We now have an end-game, and tons more replayability, not only because we have since added multiplayer and infinite travel, but have extended the game with custom game support and a challenge mode. Oh ya, and milestone modifiers. Oh ya, and also remember when equipping items didn't change your character sprite? Oh ya.. and... It's impossible to list all the changes and additions here, but we have no plans of stopping. Building games with this amount of depth and breadth take time, especially whilst being a hobby project. Stay tuned for more!

Improvements

Setting the "Turn Delay" to 0 will now disable all turning when moving. You can then use shift (by default) to face different directions.
Improved the sorting of games in the multiplayer menu so that open games are at the top.
Player tooltips will now be visible for players that are connecting to a multiplayer game.
The news menu will now have changelog buttons for more version release articles.
Notes are no longer shown when running a dedicated server.
The in-game changelog can now display preview images for changes.

Bug Fixes

Fixed tamed creatures no longer seeking owner's attackers. (Thanks Zalpha!)
Fixed Steam Workshop mods being re-downloaded even when they are already updated, increasing the speed at which mods will refresh.
Fixed incompatible Steam Workshop mods not showing up in mods list.
Fixed loading outdated or too many mods causing other mods not to load.
Potentially fixed a very rare bug with tattered maps that caused them to sometimes not have Xs until the game is reloaded.
Fixed crafting item highlights not re-highlighting after crafting items.
Fixed the "Steam Workshop" button showing for save exports when not connected to Steam.
Fixed quickslots not properly updating protection & damaged status. (Thanks Townfall!)
Fixed ground item inspections showing themselves when not nearby.
Fixed ground item inspections tripling themselves.
Fixed Electron IPC errors caused by console logging into dedicated servers.
"Flasks" have been renamed to "retorts" as that is more accurate to their purpose and graphic. (Thanks darkmane!)
Fixed items tooltips disappearing and leaving just the "Inspect" section if they had been destroyed. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed trying to create puddles out of bounds.
Fixed mousing over one craft after another not highlighting the proper items when the second craft used some of the same items as the first one. (Thanks Skarn!)
Fixed performance issues when traveling to or playing in already-visited ice cap islands. (Thanks Vallivanting!)
Fixed instances of tooltips not updating when there are changes to old dialogs, such as inventories, crafting, dismantling, and equipment.
Fixed some instances of incorrect floor tile-mapping.
Fixed fire spreading to lit torches and candles possibly giving them higher than normal decay values.
Fixed torches/candles resetting their maximum decay when picked back up among other issues. (Thanks Skarn!)
Fixed tooltips flashing/empty boxes when moving the mouse between different in game objects.
Fixed the required craft amount showing the wrong count of items.
Fixed there not being a "discovered treasure" sprite for maps in the dark theme.
Fixed fog of war being reset when rejoining a dedicated server that traveled to a new island. (Thanks LaoTze!)
Fixed spawning on the edge of the map if the players travelled to a new map while you were offline or were a brand new character on the game/server. (Thanks CloudedGuardian!)
Fixed multiplayer travel votes getting stuck if a player disconnects mid-vote.
Fixed no confirmation being shown when travelling on multiplayer games alone. (Thanks Valdig!)
Fixed map dialogs staying open after dropping or moving the item.
Fixed the quick settings dialog not refreshing options when they are changed from a different place.
Fixed the reference system not working for mod registrations. This fixes tooltips on things added from mods.

Balance

Increased the temperature variance/range within the coastal island types.
Decreased the temperature in coastal and ice cap caves.
Increased the maximum temperature in the arid island types, including in the caves.
Increased chance of spawning void dwellers.

Technical

Wayward has been upgraded to Electron 12.0.4.

Modding

"Registry().get()" now supports referencing a single registration inside a bulk registration.

Mods

TARS

Will now restore changed gameplay options when disabled.
Will now move faster by disabling turn delay.

[ 2021-04-23 02:54:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.10.1 Released

Hey all, Happy Saturday! Hoping you all are having some fun with the new update. We wanted to address some issues quickly that some players are facing. It's not everything we want to do or fix up in the short term, but it's a good start. Stay tuned for more! Bonus Tip: You can bring up fish out of the water (ones you can't even see) by casting your line or net in open water. You can increase your chances of this by using bait. Bait items include chopped fish, spider meat, worm meat, or earthworms. The bait will automatically be used from your inventory as your attempt to fish.

New

Added a new random quest requirement to challenge mode discover buried treasures. You will spawn with treasure maps.

Improvements

Added the amount of items you have out of how many you need in the dismantling tooltip.
Polished the look of status effect tooltips.

Bug Fixes

Fixed the dismantle tooltip's label being duplicated numerous times after dismantling an item.
Automatically fallback to WebGL1 if WebGL2 fails to compile shaders, which potentially fixes issues where some players were getting black screens while playing.
Fixed "{ARTICLE:exceptional specimen}" showing in the Notes dialog. (Thanks William!)
Fixed occasional "You cannot do that yet!" messages when moving while a map dialog is opened.
Fixed the items that would be used in dismantling not being highlighted.
Fixed tooltip flashing/layout shifting when turns/ticks pass.
Fixed rare desyncs for some actions that damaged items.
Fixed tattered map desyncs.
Fixed issues when loading the same mod locally and through the Steam Workshop.
Fixed the news menu showing duplicate "event" articles. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed quick settings tooltips being on the right rather than based on the mouse position.
Fixed some instances of tooltip text displaying strangely, for tooltips that appear on the left side of your mouse.
Fixed not being able to use buttons on disabled mods.
Fixed new unlock highlights only showing in Challenge mode, the one place where they should not have shown.
Fixed a context menu showing when you dismiss multiple pinned notes at once. (Thanks Gra!)

Balance

Decreased magic chance on non-exceptional items and increased chance on exceptional items slightly.

Mods

Wayward Major Update Seafarer+ Released!

Fixed performance issues after sleeping. (Thanks Primed_ape!)

[ 2021-04-17 22:45:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

It's that time again! Time for a major Wayward update to be released into the wild. And into the wild, you shall go. A harsher wild this time around, one where you are not only surviving your bodily needs, but now also surviving the elements with the introduction of temperature in this update. Temperature is only a taste of what is to come as this update is one of the biggest ones we have ever released. A few notable changes include:

Added a new temperature system, along with three temperature-related status effects, a new "insulation" property for equipment and containers, and more!
Added a new "Mastercrafted" item quality, only obtained through high-skill and efficacy crafting.
Treasure hunting has been completely redesigned.
Added tin ore, a lightweight but very soft and low durability metal that can be used in blunt-only weaponry, tools, armor, or mixed with copper to create bronze.
Added the powerful bronze metal, an alloy crafted with copper and tin and to be used in late-game weaponry, tools and armor. Iron can still outclass bronze in certain regards relating to blunt resistances and blunt-based tools.
Added tool use properties/values (and quality bonuses) for reinforce, start fire, repair, carve, dig, gather, rest, and more. Learn more about this by inspecting items to see their action information.
Magical item properties (previously called legendaries) are no longer tied to a certain quality and can exist on multiple quality types now and are no longer restricted to a single property per item.
Added lots of new content to ice cap biomes including new wall/floor types (ice/snow), items, equipment, creatures, plants, and more!
Added multiple new creatures, some with unique mechanics and items.
Added in attack animations for each damage type.

To help celebrate the release, Wayward is -20% off for the next 7 days. Less talk, more video: [previewyoutube=KwYRwu_7JMg;full][/previewyoutube] The original plan with this release was to further what we brought forth with the original "Seafarer" update, but to include even more of our lofty goals and deep systems to improve the "feeling" of these new island types. Those island types being of the new ice cap and arid biomes, now each with their own set of temperature challenges. Even with everything here, we still have more we want to do. So stay tuned! On with the gigantic changelog:

New

Added a new temperature system, along with three temperature-related status effects, a new "insulation" property for equipment and containers, and more!
Added a new "Mastercrafted" item quality, only obtained through high-skill and efficacy crafting.
Treasure hunting has been completely redesigned.
Added tin ore, a lightweight but very soft and low durability metal that can be used in blunt-only weaponry, tools, armor, or mixed with copper to create bronze.
Added the powerful bronze metal, an alloy crafted with copper and tin and to be used in late-game weaponry, tools and armor. Iron can still outclass bronze in certain regards relating to blunt resistances and blunt-based tools.
Added tool use properties/values (and quality bonuses) for reinforce, start fire, repair, carve, dig, gather, rest, and more. Learn more about this by inspecting items to see their action information.
Magical item properties (previously called legendaries) are no longer tied to a certain quality and can exist on multiple quality types now and are no longer restricted to a single property per item.
Added lots of new content to ice cap biomes including new wall/floor types (ice/snow), items, equipment, creatures, plants, and more!
Added multiple new creatures, some with unique mechanics and items.
Added in attack animations for each damage type.
Certain actions such as pouring water or some crafts will now produce puddles that can accumulate and create shallow water sources.
New tamed and untamed icons will appear above creatures as well as show which items they picked up from the ground as an offering.
Added a new "Cold" damage type with new resistances/vulnerabilities applied to creatures and equipment.
Added both ice and snow walls and flooring. Snow huts and other constructed houses can be found made of them on world generation in the ice cap island type.
You can now hover over text in messages to see tooltips, such as the names of items, doodads, creatures, etc.
Status effects, item breaking warnings, and broken items will now pop-up above the player.
You can now inspect items and other tooltips. Added a prompt to those and world tooltips.
Certain items, doodads, and tiles will now melt into puddles under the right temperature (or heat) conditions. When enough puddles exist, certain tiles can cool down or turn into shallow water sources.
Items fired, shot, or thrown are now animated.
Added two new magical components.
Added the "Apocryphal" milestone for discovering every type of magical item.
Added the milestone, "Diverse", played every type of game mode. This milestone is enabled for all game modes.
Added all metal types of knives.
There are now low durability sandstone versions of bullets, hammers, and anvils.
Added fast world update simulations for passing turns after travel and removed the previous limit of 5000 turns passing.
Added two new books.
Added an item sort for sorting by magical properties.
Added a new option to disable item pick-ups when idling (using the spacebar or by clicking your character) that is disabled by default.
Added a button to mods to allow opening the mod's folder.
Added the ability to sort by worth (trade value).
Mod icons can now be viewed in-game.
Added the current update title to the main menu screen.
Mod `README.md` files can now be viewed in-game.
Doodads now have support for notifiers and water stills will display a notifier when the water is ready to drink or gather.
Added a new magical "insulation" property for equipment and containers.
Bindings that are also bound on other bindables now show a clickable warning icon that filters to those bindables.

Improvements

Item tooltips have been redesigned. They feature new layouts, better readability, and in the case of crafting/dismantle tooltips, feature more information.
For certain milestones, their tooltips now contain a list of which things have been discovered. (Thanks warriorsforever482!)
Opened containers will now keep their sort and order after traveling.
Added new recipe difficulty, "Master" for the new tiers of blacksmithing items as well as some other items.
The tier and quality of bedding items (leaf bedroll, hammock, etc.) will now increase turns slept/rested and stats replenished when sleeping or resting.
The tier and quality of gathering and harvesting tools will now decrease the chance of damaging plants when gathering and harvesting.
The tier and quality of carving tools will now increase the quality of items gained when carved.
The tier and quality of fire-making devices (hand drills, bow drills, etc.) will now add a bonus to the fire's length/decay when starting fires.
The tier and quality of reinforcement items (animal glue, melted copal, etc.) will now increase maximum and minimum durability when reinforcing items.
The tier and quality of repairing items (stone hammer, grindstone, etc.) will now decrease durability loss when repairing items.
The tier and quality of fishing rods or nets will now increase the chance of catching fish and items when fishing.
The tier and quality of treasure gathering tools will now increase the acceptable digging range when gathering treasure.
The tier and quality of preserving items (slime gelatin, niter, etc.) will now add a bonus to the decay timer of the preserved item.
The tier and quality of refining tools will now decrease the reduction of durability when refining items.
Tamed creatures will now move around in closed/fenced areas when they cannot follow you.
Water contamination is now randomized and converts between two types of water more naturally.
Freshwater sources can now "contaminate" seawater sources provided there is a lot more freshwater than seawater at the connection point. Previously any single tile of seawater would contaminate all connected freshwater.
Added a progress bar when island time is being adjusted while traveling.
Protected items now have a lock icon.
There are now icons associated with item qualities.
All ranged weapons will share the same action now, "Fire", and all ammunition will have a new action called "Shoot" which will attempt to use them with an equipped ranged weapon.
Hovering status effects (encumbered, exhausted, starving, dehydrated) now highlights any relevant stats.
Your stamina reduction and travel time are now dependent on the boat's tier and quality while traveling.
Your maximum weight will now increase when in a boat. This increase is based on the boat's tier and quality.
Amount of items gathered at a time is no longer determined by the tool's attack and skill but rather done through new tool properties combined with skill.
Ice shards can no longer be used for carving, but can instead be equipped as a weapon.
Fire that is created without fuel or on top of flammable objects will no longer burn to ash.
Item quality now follows a more standardized approach (ala WoW) for colors.
You can now gather with anything that you could harvest with previously.
Item quality is no longer mentioned in item names, but rather, is shown in color and in item tooltips.
Starting fires will now look in adjacent containers/tiles for kindling/tinder/fuel.
Milestone modifiers that spawn tamed creatures at the start will now no longer prefer to spawn water-based creatures.
Players, creatures, and NPCs can now "splash" water, creating puddles.
Magical items now have animations or are signified with an "M" with UI animations disabled.
Some mod tooltip information has been moved to a "more information" mod menu, in order to keep the tooltip containing the most relevant info.
Added a warning icon to the mods button on the main menu when mods are disabled due to moving to a new version.
Mod tooltips now have more colors for usability.
The icon for a mod's "View Steam Workshop Page" button has been changed from an eye to a Steam logo.
Mods that cannot be enabled due to errors no longer make their buttons (such as "uninstall" or "more information") partially transparent.
Added a count for how many mods are enabled, vs how many are installed, to the mods button on the main menu.
New version releases in the news menu now don't include their changelog, instead including a button that links to the changelog menu.
Added lightbox support to images in news articles.
Added an unread indicator to the news button on the main menu.
Improved the formatting of news articles.
Added tabs to the news menu.
Pinned note messages are now disabled by default (existing players will have to turn the setting off.) There is now an "unread notes" indicator on the "notes" button.
Clicking on the "notes" button now displays the first unread note. Displaying unread notes dismisses pinned note messages.
You can now select next/previous dropdown values using shift + scroll wheel. You can also edit a range input (like SFX volume) with shift + scroll wheel.
The idle bind now displays more information, listing that it's also used to ascend/descend stairs and pick-up items under you.
Plants and mushrooms that cannot grow in certain situations will now be destroyed (leaving their resources behind) instead of just removed completely.
The defense tooltip has been redesigned, now providing much more information when using "see more" and "inspect".
Tile tooltip opt-out, console source filtering, and UI experiments are now all compressed by default, cleaning up the options menu.
The facing tile is now highlighted when using the action menu.
Improved the look of line of sight so shadows are closer to objects that block sight.
Coconut meat is now considered a "fruit".
Doodads tooltips now include which magical properties they have.
"Transmogrify" and "enchant" actions have been swapped as transmogrification (previously enchant) will now only reroll magical properties. Its other mechanic has been moved to a new magical component.
Item tooltips are now removed as you type in filters. (Thanks Matthew Cline!)
Certain items will now put out lit doodads when they are on top of them (like snow over a lit campfire).
Melee is now the first/default action for spears instead of gathering.
Added a tooltip when hovering over a multiplayer game in the server browser as to the reason you are not able to join.
Added social buttons to the main menu.
Added ability to edit MOTD via multiplayer menu for dedicated servers.
Changed the naming of some armor pieces to be more accurate/varied.
Improved the walk to tile graphics when used over lighter tiles (like snow).
Title casing now correctly uses lowercase for short articles, conjunctions, and prepositions.
You can no longer smother fire with snow; however, you can still drop it over fire to melt and extinguish the fire that way.
Minor tile events are now a single list inspection rather than individual ones.
You can now preview the doodad's tier when built/lit in the crafting tooltip.

Bug Fixes

Fixed digging some tiles set down by the player not keeping their durability.
Fixed certain tiles being too hard to route water from.
Fixed the "Drop on Gather" option not applying when digging. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed beach sand not changing its quality as you gathered resources from it (it can now change to gravel rarely).
Fixed not being able to pour water back into wells.
Fixed solar stills replacing tiles underneath them incorrectly. (Thanks Al Huma!)
Solar stills will no longer work in caves. Who did this and didn't tell me?
Fixed multiplayer desyncs related to players leaving during another player's action packet.
Fixed creature pathfinding performance in some instances. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed paddling with a raft while in a backpack not always reducing your weight. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed failing to harvest anything granting full skill gains.
Fixed creatures being able to become tamed while out of sight in singleplayer games. (Thanks Matthew Cline!)
Fixed igniting torches from fire devices (via item menu) requiring kindling (they should only require tinder). (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed renamed doodads still showing magical property names.
Fixed inconsistencies when toggling fog of war on the host in a multiplayer game. (Thanks neurodaemon!)
Fixed digging tiles back up from being placed not retaining their weight, quality, or magical properties.
Fixed unlocking crafting recipes through developer mode not working while in-game.
Fixed not being able to ignite torches with a fire starting device directly in some instances.
Fixed message in bottles never uncommonly returning mushy paper as before.
Fixed being able to use cooked fish kebabs for pemmican. (Thanks lilzoark!)
Burning items will no longer potentially create unlimited tiles of ash underneath them. (Thanks AI Player 2!)
Building up levels of water in the ice cap using flooring or terrain will no longer produce incorrect water tile types.
Fixed equipped items rendering beneath the player while standing over open doors or growing trees with a cloak equipped.
Fixed player not animating when paddling from land and other paddle-related issues.
Fixed the "void" counting as an obstacle for thrown/shot items.
Fixed some items not burning properly.
Fixed protected items being dropped into deep water when "Drop All" actions are used. (Thanks terribleperson!)
Name-based sorting will now sort by A-Z and reversed as Z-A instead of the opposite. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed snow particles showing as blue.
Fixed replaying games (from the death screen replay button) always using the same milestone modifiers, even when changing them. (Thanks Petalwing!)
Fixed player hair rendering under open gates.
Fixed slimes merging not updating hitching post status. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed sorting by worth not producing any message.
Fixed the container weight magical property not having any effect in some instances.
Fixed creature tooltips for non-aberrant creatures including the text that the creature is abnormally aggressive. Only affected old saves.
Fixed version and build mismatch multiplayer error messages having swapped arguments.
Fixed attempting to equip an item into the wrong slot passing a turn. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed YouTube embeds in news articles being too small and causing errors.
Fixed multiple hoe graphics to remove erroneous coloring.
Fixed soundtracks not containing additional cover artwork. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed sorting by weight not calculating the weight of items inside containers.
Fixed items in your inventory decaying by how much the island fast-forwarded by when traveling. (Thanks Meron!)
Fixed offering not updating player weight. (Thanks DragonOvLeaves!)
Fixed a terrain template issue where rocks could appear in glaciers.
Fixed NPCs not creating particles when walking in shallow water.
Fixed an issue where dropdown menus could become stuck on double-clicking to open.
Fixed quality of tile not updating on tooltip when tile type changed. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)

Balance

The chance of gaining skills will now somewhat depend on the item used in actions that support it. The higher the tool's tier and quality, the higher chance of gaining skill points.
Removed blunt vulnerabilities from copper equipment.
Taming creatures will now continuously add minimum/maximum health to the creature instead of subtracting it each time.
Copper tools (and weapons that can be used as tools) are now less efficient than their wrought iron counterpart when used for their "sharpness" qualities (like when carving, lumberjacking, etc.). Blunt-based activities (like mining) remain unchanged.
Removed limestone requirement for producing copper ingots.
Iron is slightly more common in coastal caves.
Starting vegetables and fruits can now be harvestable/gatherable (can appear as flowering/ripening on occasion).
Increased base amount of the worth property for magical items.
Increased impact of item tiers on consumed items when crafting quality or magical items.
Buried treasure will now have more loot than found treasure chests.
Cave entrances will now never spawn as a single tile; however, higher rarity cave chests will be a bit rarer to compensate for this new ease of access to the main cave areas.
Increased the amount of maximum talc gathered from rocks and sandstone with talc.
Enhance (previously transmogrify) will now only alter magical properties and not the quality of an item. Reduced difficulty of enhancing as a result.
Reduced time required to produce wisp dust from wisps.
All knives now have a higher "Sharpened" tier than axes of the same type.
Solar stills will no longer function in the ice cap or lower temperatures without an external heat source around it.
Limestone can now appear under rocks with snow.
The success rate of starting and spreading fires is now also based on temperature slightly.
Decreased the rarity of metals and sandstone resources in arid caves.
Sandstone can now contain limestone and can be found in the arid biome.
Copper can no longer randomly spawn in caves or under snowy rocks in the ice cap biome.
Tool/item quality and tier will now impact the amount of reputation gained/lost on some actions.
Merchant NPCs now scale their overall strength with negative reputation.
The "Pulchritudinous" milestone modifier now provides specifically an equippable magical item.
Interacting with a hitch, door, chest (either through opening or lockpicking) that is on fire will now burn the player.
Increased chance at damaging plants when harvesting/gathering slightly.
"You see" messages will no longer appear if the event occurred while the player was resting.
Reduced effectiveness of skill level for reducing stamina usage, success chance, and amount of items gained when gathering resources. The new tool properties and quality will now play a role as well.
Increased the chances of crafting or finding increased quality items slightly.
Pouring seawater over small freshwater sources can now pollute them.
Increased the bonus durability given by the "Crafter" milestone modifier.
You can no longer start fires over snow/ice without fuel as well as tinder/kindling (in the case of starting fires with fire devices).

Modding

Modding new walls, doors, and fences are now possible (they are no longer hardcoded).
Item recipes can require multiple doodads now.
The Wayward Schemas VSCode extension now adds syntax highlighting to interpolations in language files.
Languages can now provide `contextRules` for how title casing works.
Language pluralization rules `pluralRules` and `singularRules` are now arrays, making it possible to change the precedence of rules.
Tile events now have the ability to render under doodads through the `renderBelowDoodads` property.
Mods can now create registrations in bulk via `@Register.bulk`, which has support for all existing registration types.
You can now link your mod's GitHub repository in your `mod.json` and it will be displayed in the mod's menu.
Simplified the "actions" system so that action instances now have an `execute` method rather than requiring a new `ActionExecutor` instance. This change also should improve typechecking performance for modders.
Special language utilities (segments) now use capital letters to better differentiate them from translatable language for translators.

Technical

Improved performance on all scrollable dialogs in the game.
Improved performance of dropping/moving many items at a time.
Improved performance of item quality/highlight outlines (and they are no longer disabled in "Disable UI Effects" mode as a result).
Crafts will no longer update when the crafting dialog is closed, an option for improving performance when needed.
Improved game rendering performance.
Improved performance of hovering over items/crafts.
Improved the performance of water contamination/conversion.
Improved sprite loading speed.
Wayward has been updated to TypeScript 4.2.
Added trace recording button to developer options section.
Wayward has been updated to Electron 11.4.2.
The "An error has occurred!" message now has a tooltip with more information, and you can right-click to copy it and share it with us for debugging purposes.
Improved translation performance.
Fixed group tooltips in `GroupDropdown` components sometimes showing up when new screens were initialized.

Mods

TARS

No longer makes more food than required when idle.
Added a dialog that displays current goal and enabled/disabled status that can be opened with `Shift + T` (by default).
Updated README with more information about how it works.
Fixed issues with gathering water in some instances.
Fixed infinite loop when trying to dismantle an item if the required item is protected.
Now idles to recover from low stamina when sailing.
Fixed two TARS players getting stuck after running into each other.

Testing Beta 2.10 "Seafarer+"

Fixed the layer dropdown not updating which layer you're on if you travel into a cave entrance with another panel visible.
Added a button to clear your inventory.
You can now add items of a randomly chosen type to your inventory.
You can now add any number of each item to your inventory, rather than just one.
You can now add one of every kind of item to your inventory.

[ 2021-04-16 17:15:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

Well, it's taken awhile to get here, but we finally have something "close" to the eventual release ready for testing. There's still a few fixes to get in, and a few more content updates before this fully goes live, but it's pretty close now. If you want a sneak peek at what we have in store, download and try the development branch today! Change your branch in Steam to "development". More information on that here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=721479594 As always, make sure to back-up your important saves and data before switching to and while using the development branch! Thanks for helping us find any issues! You can play the game normally, or help us debug or polish any of the following from the (unsorted) changelog below: Subject to change before release!

Beta 2.10.0 "Seafarer+"

New

Treasure hunting has been completely reworked.
Added a new temperature system, along with three temperature-related status effects, a new "insulation" property for equipment and containers, and more!
Certain items, doodads and tiles will now melt into puddles under the right temperature (or heat) conditions. When enough puddles exist, certain tiles can cool down or turn into shallow water sources.
Added a new magical "insulation" property for equipment and containers.
Certain actions such as pouring water or some crafts will now produce puddles that can accumulate and create shallow water sources.
Added an item sort for sorting by magical properties.
Status effects, item breaking warnings, and broken items will now pop-up above the player.
Added lots of new content to ice cap biomes including new wall/floor types (ice/snow), items, creatures, plants, and more!
There are now low durability sandstone versions of bullets, hammers and anvils.
Added two new magical components.
Added a new "Mastercrafted" item quality, only obtained through high-skill and efficacy crafting.
You can now hover over text in messages to see tooltips, such as the names of items, doodads, creatures, etc.
Added the milestone, "Diverse", played every type of game mode. This milestone is enabled for all game modes.
Added the "Apocryphal" milestone for discovering every type of magical item.
Added the current update title to main menu screen.
Magical item properties (previously called legendaries) are no longer tied to a certain quality and can exist on multiple quality types now and are no longer restricted to a single property per item.
Added two new books.
Added both ice and snow walls and flooring. Snow huts and other constructed houses can be found made of them on world generation in the ice cap island type.
Added in attack animations for each damage type.
Added tin ore, a lightweight but very soft and low durability metal that can be used in blunt-only weaponry, tools, armor, or mixed with copper to create bronze.
Added multiple new creatures, some with unique mechanics and items.
Added the powerful bronze metal, an alloy crafted with copper and tin and to be used in late-game weaponry, tools and armor. Iron can still outclass bronze in certain regards relating to blunt resistances and blunt-based tools.
Added tool use properties/values (and quality bonuses) for reinforce, start fire, repair, carve, dig, gather, rest, and more. Learn more about this by inspecting items to see their action information.
Doodads now have support for notifiers and water stills will display a notifier when the water is ready to drink or gather.
New tamed and untamed icons will appear above creatures as well as show which items they picked up from the ground as an offering.
Added the ability to sort by worth (trade value).
Added all metal types of knives.
Items fired, shot, or thrown are now animated.
Added a new option to disable item pick-ups when idling (using the spacebar or by clicking your character) that is disabled by default.
Added fast world update simulations for passing turns after travel and removed the previous limit of 5000 turns passing.
Added a new "Cold" damage type with new resistances/vulnerabilities applied to creatures and equipment.
Added a button to mods to allow opening the mod's folder.
Mod icons can now be viewed in-game.
Mod README.md files can now be viewed in-game.
Bindings that are also bound on other bindables now show a clickable warning icon that filters to those bindables.

Improvements

Minor tile events are now a single list inspection rather than individual ones.
Water contamination is now randomized and converts between two types of water more naturally.
Fresh water sources can now "contaminate" seawater sources provided there is a lot more fresh water than seawater at the connection point. Previously any single tile of seawater would contaminate all connected fresh water.
For certain milestones, their tooltips now contain a list of which things have been discovered. (Thanks warriorsforever482!)
Players, creatures and NPCs can now "splash" water, creating puddles.
New version releases in the news menu now don't include their changelog, instead including a button that links to the changelog menu.
Plants and mushrooms that cannot grow in certain situations will now be destroyed (leaving their resources behind) instead of just removed completely.
Added an unread indicator to the news button on the main menu.
Improved the formatting of news articles.
Added a warning icon to the mods button on the main menu when mods are disabled due to moving to a new version.
Added a count for how many mods are enabled, vs how many are installed, to the mods button on the main menu.
Added lightbox support to images in news articles.
Added tabs to the news menu.
You can no longer smother fire with snow; however, you can still drop it over fire to melt and extinguish the fire that way.
Hovering status effects (encumbered, exhausted, starving, dehydrated) now highlights any relevant stats.
The idle bind now displays more information, listing that it's also used to ascend/descend stairs and pick-up items under you.
Tile tooltip opt-out, console source filtering, and UI experiments are now all compressed by default, cleaning up the options menu.
Added a progress bar when island time is being adjusting while travelling.
You can now select next/previous dropdown values using shift + scroll wheel. You can also edit a range input (ie, sfx volume) with shift + scroll wheel.
Fire that is created without fuel or on top of flammable objects will no longer burn to ash.
Pinned note messages are now disabled by default (existing players will have to turn the setting off.) There is now an "unread notes" indicator on the "notes" button.
Coconut meat is now considered a "fruit".
Milestone modifiers that spawn tamed creatures at the start will now no longer prefer to spawn water-based creatures.
Magical items now have animations or are signified with an "M" with UI animations disabled.
Certain items will now put out lit doodads when they are on top of them (like snow over a lit campfire).
"Transmogrify" and "enchant" actions have been swapped as transmogrification (previously enchant) will now only reroll magical properties. Its other mechanic has been moved to a new magical component.
Protected items now have a lock icon.
Doodads tooltips now include which magical properties they have.
There are now icons associated with item qualities.
Title casing now correctly uses lowercase for short articles, conjunctions, and prepositions.
Item tooltips are now removed as you type in filters. (Thanks Matthew Cline!)
Item quality now follows a more standardized approach (ala WoW) for colors.
Item quality is no longer mentioned in item names, but rather, is shown in color and in item tooltips.
Tamed creatures will now move around in closed/fenced areas when they cannot follow you.
Improved the look of line of sight so shadows are closer to objects that block sight.
Starting fires will now look in adjacent containers/tiles for kindling/tinder/fuel.
The facing tile is now highlighted when using the action menu.
Improved the walk to tile graphics when used over lighter tiles (like snow).
The tier and quality of carving tools will now increase the quality of items gained when carved.
The tier and quality of fishing rods or nets will now increase the chance of catching fish and items when fishing.
The tier and quality of treasure gathering tools will now increase the acceptable digging range when gathering treasure.
The tier and quality of gathering and harvesting tools will now decrease chance of damaging plants when gathering and harvesting.
The tier and quality of preserving items (slime gelatin, niter, etc.) will now add a bonus to the decay timer of the preserved item.
The tier and quality of refining tools will now decrease reduction of durability when refining items.
The tier and quality of reinforcement items (animal glue, melted copal, etc.) will now increase maximum and minimum durability when reinforcing items.
The tier and quality of repairing items (stone hammer, grindstone, etc.) will now decrease durability loss when repairing items.
The tier and quality of bedding items (leaf bedroll, hammock, etc.) will now increase turns slept/rested and stats replenished when sleeping or resting.
The tier and quality of fire making devices (hand drills, bow drills, etc.) will now add a bonus to the fire's length/decay when starting fires.
Your stamina reduction and travel time is now dependent on the boat's tier and quality while traveling.
Your maximum weight will now increase when in a boat. This increase is based on the boat's tier and quality.
Changed the naming of some armor pieces to be more accurate/varied.
Added new recipe difficulty, "Master" for the new tiers of blacksmithing items as well as some other items.
Melee is now the first/default action for spears instead of gathering.
Amount of items gathered at a time is no longer determined by the tool's attack and skill but rather done through new tool properties combined with skill.
Added ability to edit MOTD via multiplayer menu for dedicated servers.
Added a tooltip when hovering over a multiplayer game in the server browser as to the reason you are not able to join.
You can now gather with anything that you could harvest with previously.
Ice shards can no longer be used for carving, but can instead be equipped as a weapon.
Opened containers will now keep their sort and order after traveling.
Added social buttons to the main menu.
Clicking on the "notes" button now displays the first unread note. Displaying unread notes dismisses pinned note messages.
Mods that cannot be enabled due to errors no longer make their buttons (such as "uninstall" or "more information") partially transparent.
Some mod tooltip information has been moved to a "more information" mod menu, in order to keep the tooltip containing the most relevant info.
Mod tooltips now have more colors for usability.
The icon for a mod's "View Steam Workshop Page" button has been changed from an eye to a Steam logo.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where dropdown menus could become stuck on double clicking to open.
Fixed NPCs not creating particles when walking in shallow water.
Fixed not being able to pour water back into wells.
Fixed YouTube embeds in news articles being too small and causing errors.
Fixed the "void" counting as an obstacle for thrown/shot items.
Fixed message in a bottles never uncommonly returning mushy paper.
Fixed certain tiles being too hard to route water from.
Fixed creature pathfinding performance in some instances. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed soundtracks not containing additional cover artwork. (Thanks Amax!)
Solar stills will no longer work in caves. Who did this and didn't tell me?
Fixed items in your inventory decaying by how much the island fast forwarded by when traveling. (Thanks Meron!)
Fixed snow particles showing as blue.
Fixed digging tiles back up from being placed not retaining their weight, quality or magical properties.
Fixed drop on gather option not applying when digging. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed digging some tiles set down by the player not keeping their durability.
Fixed protected items being dropped into deep water when "Drop All" actions are used. (Thanks terribleperson!)
Fixed a terrain template issue where rocks could appear in glaciers.
Fixed solar stills replacing tiles underneath them incorrectly. (Thanks Al Huma!)
Fixed being able to use cooked fish kebabs for pemmican. (Thanks lilzoark!)
Fixed creature tooltips for non-aberrant creatures including the text that the creature is abnormally aggressive. Only affected old saves.
Fixed equipped items rendering beneath the player while standing over open doors or growing trees with a cloak equipped.
Fixed some items not burning properly.
Fixed paddling with a raft while in a backpack not always reducing your weight. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed beach sand not changing its quality as you gathered resources from it (it can now change to gravel rarely).
Fixed player hair rendering under open gates.
Name-based sorting will now sort by A-Z and reversed as Z-A instead of the opposite. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed sorting by worth not producing any message.
Fixed the container weight magical property not having any effect in some instances.
Fixed sorting by weight not calculating weight of items inside containers.
Burning items will no longer potentially create unlimited tiles of ash underneath them. (Thanks AI Player 2!)
Fixed igniting torches from fire devices (via item menu) requiring kindling (they should only require tinder). (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed renamed doodads still showing magical property names.
Fixed creatures being able to become tamed while out of sight in singleplayer games. (Thanks Matthew Cline!)
Fixed inconsistencies when toggling fog of war on the host in a multiplayer game. (Thanks neurodaemon!)
Fixed instance of an incorrect flooring graphic showing on outside walls.
Fixed slimes merging not updating hitching post status. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed attempting to equip an item into the wrong slot passing a turn. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed player not animating when paddling from land and other paddle related issues.
Fixed multiple hoe graphics to remove erroneous coloring.
Fixed not being able to ignite torches with a fire starting device directly in some instances.
Fixed failing to harvest anything granting full skill gains.
Fixed version and build mismatch multiplayer error messages having swapped arguments.
Fixed unlocking crafting recipes through developer mode not working while in-game.
Fixed offering not updating player weight. (Thanks DragonOvLeaves!)

Balance

Buried treasure will now have more loot than found treasure chests.
Pouring seawater over small fresh water sources can now pollute them.
The success rate of starting and spreading fires is now also based on temperature slightly.
Increased impact of item tiers on consumed items when crafting quality or magical items.
Starting vegetables and fruits can now be harvestable/gatherable (can appear as flowering/ripening on occasion).
Increased amount of maximum talc gathered from rocks and sandstone with talc.
Improved game rendering performance.
Solar stills will no longer function in the ice cap or lower temperatures without an external heat source around it.
You can no longer start fires over snow/ice without fuel as well as tinder/kindling (in the case of starting fires with fire devices).
Taming creatures will now continuously add minimum/maximum health to the creature instead of subtracting it each time.
Reduced time required to produce wisp dust from wisps.
Enhance (previously transmogrify) will now only alter magical properties and not the quality of an item. Reduced difficulty of enhancing as a result.
The "Pulchritudinous" milestone modifier now provides specifically an equippable magical item.
Increased the bonus durability given by the "Crafter" milestone modifier.
Increased the chances of crafting or finding increased quality items slightly.
Copper tools (and weapons that can be used as tools) are now less efficient than their wrought iron counterpart when used for their "sharpness" qualities (like when carving, lumberjacking, etc.). Blunt-based activities (like mining) remain unchanged.
Limestone can now appear under rocks with snow.
Iron is slightly more common in coastal caves.
Decreased rarity of metals and sandstone resources in arid caves.
Copper can no longer randomly spawn in caves or under snowy rocks in the ice cap biome.
Tool/item quality and tier will now impact amount of reputation gained/lost on some actions.
"You see" messages will no longer appear if the event occurred while the player was resting.
Interacting with a hitch, door, chest (either through opening or lockpicking) that is on fire will now burn the player.
Removed limestone requirement for producing copper ingots.
Increased chance at damaging plants when harvesting/gathering slightly.
Reduced effectiveness of skill level for reducing stamina usage, success chance, and amount of items gained when gathering resources. The new tool properties and quality will now play a role as well.
The chance of gaining skills will now somewhat depend on the item used in actions that support it. The higher the tool's tier and quality, the higher chance of gaining skill points.
Cave entrances will now never spawn as a single tile; however, higher rarity cave chests will be a bit more rare to compensate ease of access to main cave areas.
Sandstone can now contain limestone and can be found in the arid biome.
Merchant NPCs now scale their overall strength with negative reputation.
Increased base amount of the worth property for magical items.
Removed blunt vulnerabilities from copper equipment.

Modding

Language pluralization rules pluralRules and singularRules are now arrays, making it possible to change the precedence of rules.
The Wayward Schemas VSCode extension now adds syntax highlighting to interpolations in language files.
Tile events now have the ability to render under doodads through the renderBelowDoodads property.
Mods can now create registrations in bulk via @Register.bulk, which has support for all existing registration types.
Special language utilities (segments) now use capital letters to better differentiate them from translatable language for translators.
Languages can now provide contextRules for how title casing works.
Modding new walls, doors and fences is now possible (they are no longer hardcoded).
Item recipes can require multiple doodads now.
You can now link your mod's GitHub repository in your mod.json and it will be displayed in the mod's menu.
Simplified the "actions" system so that action instances now have an execute method rather than requiring a new ActionExecutor instance. This change also should improve typechecking performance for modders.

Mods

TARS

No longer makes more food than required when idle.
Added a dialog that displays current goal and enabled/disabled status that can be opened with Shift + T (by default).
Updated README with more information about how it works.
Fixed issues with gathering water in some instances.
Fixed infinite loop when trying to dismantle an item if the required item is protected.
Now idles to recover from low stamina when sailing.
Fixed two TARS players getting stuck after running into each other.

Fixed the layer dropdown not updating which layer you're on if you travel into a cave entrance with another panel visible.

Technical

Improved translation performance.
Improved the performance of water contamination/conversion.
The "An error has occurred!" message now has a tooltip with more information, and you can right click to copy it and share it with us for debugging purposes.
Wayward has been updated to TypeScript 4.2.
Wayward has been update to Electron 11.2.3.
Added trace recording button to developer options section.
Improved performance on all scrollable dialogs in the game.
Improved performance of hovering over items/crafts.
Improved performance of item quality/highlight outlines (and they are no longer disabled in "Disable UI Effects" mode as a result).
Improved performance of dropping/moving many items at a time.
Crafts will no longer update when the crafting dialog is closed, an option for improving performance when needed.
Improved sprite loading speed.
All knives now have a higher "Sharpened" tier than axes of the same type.

[ 2021-03-27 23:17:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

Wayward Newsletter #9

Hey all, While we are still working away on beta 2.10, "Seafarer+", our next major release, I thought I would share a bit of what we are working on while new players enjoy the deal going on right now of -25% off Wayward on Steam for the next few days. Enjoy!

Item Qualities, Magical Properties, and Mastercrafted items

There is a new item quality system implemented which reduces some of the confusion in the previous system in terms of colors and naming, which have both been redone. This new system decouples the old legendary item system that only allowed for a single magical property to be included on legendary quality items. Now, any item can have magical properties, and sometimes even multiple properties. The amount is still tied to the item's quality, but no longer specifically tied to legendary items, which have now been renamed to "exceptional".

There is, however; a new maximum tier quality, called "Mastercrafted"; only possible to obtain through high efficacy crafting with decent skills. These items are super durable, have a huge impact on skills/actions used by them, and can feature up to four magical properties per item.

Treasure Hunting & Maps

Treasure hunting and maps have had a complete overhaul. The mapping system now looks a lot more thematic and hand-drawn, improving the aesthetic substantially. The treasure maps can also be reversed and rotated, increasing their difficulty and improving the gameplay portion of finding the locations. We plan to improve this new gameplay feature by expanding the treasure hunting system to include riddles and hints as well. Oh ya, and there's even a chance a map can feature more than one treasure now! Preview this new system in the video below. [previewyoutube=5IWwO7uDvHk;full][/previewyoutube] Maps will now fade and deteriorate like before, but now look a whole lot spiffier when doing so.

Action Tiers & Item Inspection

As hinted at above, items will now vary in effectiveness when used in certain actions or skills. For example, a fishing net will be better at catching fish than a fishing pole (among other benefits). This effect is furthered by the item quality as well. Here's a look at this system including a sneak peek at the new item inspection mode which will reveal even more information on each item.

Animations & Notifiers

We have teased the new attack animations a bit, but there is also a bunch of new notifiers available; those icons that pop-up over your character, that now show over creatures in certain instances as well. Every attack damage type has a unique animation, including traps that animate over the creature or player. Ranged items like throwing, slings, and bows will now animate the ammunition along its trajectory. There are new pop-up notifiers showing creatures becoming tame or untamed, status effects to your player (like getting poisoned or burned), items close to breaking or destroyed when crafting or on use, water ready to drink on water stills, and more! The purpose of all this is to provide more visual feedback to the player without the need for reading through your messages with each action. This video showcases most of these new additions. [previewyoutube=k1-A-fQ5B2w;full][/previewyoutube]

Tin and Bronze

What's the point of copper without bronze? Well, with the addition of tin, bronze is now obtainable! This new maximum tier metal is better than iron in most ways; however, has less durability and is a lower tier in some specific cases; so both materials still have their individual uses. Tin will now take all the hate from copper going forward!

Melting & Temperature

We already talked a bit about the new temperature system in our last newsletter, but we are furthering this system by allowing things to melt or decay faster or slower depending on the temperature. For example, snow tiles too close to raging fires, or raw meat in a hot backpack. This example video is a sped up a bit just so you can see tiles melting and turning into puddles. If there is enough water on a tile, it will convert itself to a pool of shallow water. We also see at the beginning that apples decay slower while in the colder climate of the ice cap, and even slower while in a chest. [previewyoutube=dQv7SfjxYOc;full][/previewyoutube]

New Timeline

We bite off a bit more than we could chew here with everything, and as a result, we will be delaying this release a bit until we get everything polished. It will be no doubt one of our biggest single releases to date. That being said, if you are interested in any of the above, all of it is playable and more in the development branch and we are already gathering feedback from players as we make the changes. Stay tuned for more!

[ 2021-02-11 18:07:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.9.6 Released

So, with a bit of delay, this should be in fact be the last minor patch in the 2.9.x series of releases. On to bigger (and better) things! As previously mentioned, we are taking another stab at this whole Seafaring thing and improving multiple aspects of it for the next major release. You can read more about it in our latest newsletter: https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/379210/view/2874942454047808303 Stay tuned for more news! Bonus Promo Struggling to get started in Wayward? Check out SirKenithan's new guide, aptly named "SirKenithan's guide to starting out in Wayward." here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2245916645 Still struggling? Check out Puffletops' collection of guides complete with plenty of pictures available from this post on our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wayward/comments/j3if1a/wayward_guide_collection/ Bonus Tip If a weapon has multiple damage types, it will use both of them on each hit. Each value in a resistance will reduce the damage by one, and each vulnerability will increase it by one. As an example: You hit a scorpion with a wooden sword that deals 3 blunt/piercing damage. Scorpions have a resistance of 1 against piercing and a vulnerability of 2 against blunt with a base defense of 2. The scorpion would take 2 damage (3 - 2 - 1 + 2) in this scenario when other factors like skills are not applied. You can read more about attacking and damage in the new help article available in-game.

New

Added an attacking & damage help article, explaining how to attack and how the damage system works.
Added a launch option to force the use of a discrete GPU and defaulted it to on (may only effect macOS currently).

Improvements

Protected items are now protected from disassembling, throwing, and dropping in destructive ways.
Solar stills will now automatically refill their water source when built on top of shallow water.
Map decoding messages will now reveal if the treasure is below ground when close.
Enchanting no longer re-rolls skills or stat types.
The "Best for Crafting..." sort options are now combined into one, making it a good default active sort to use along with the new "Protect" item feature when crafting.
There are now two new difficulties when going past the normal limits.
Going under the -64,000 reputation limit will now cause only aberrant creatures to spawn.
Reputation logging messages are now color-coded and easier to understand.
The illumination legendary type number will now be tied more accurately to its base value and will provide a bigger bonus. (Thanks inquisitiveToast!)
The multitasker milestone now checks for previously gained skills (for older save games, milestone resets, imported save games, etc.).

Bug Fixes

Fixed saved custom game options on high-scores including effects applied by milestone modifiers, causing the replay button to double-up milestone modifier effects. (Thanks Zalpha!)
Fixed a smother fire exploit that lead to allowing players to plant fertile soil under already grown plants. (Thanks Vardis!)
Fixed the highscore "replay" button not auto-selecting the same milestone modifiers.
Fixed attacks causing delay in real-time mode (in singleplayer games). (Thanks Vardis!)
Fixed giant spiders, chickens, and some other creatures accepting all bait types (including raw chopped fish) instead of just insects.
Fixed rare multiplayer packet processing errors when traveling to other islands.
Fixed being able to jump in a boat... really? (Thanks SirKenithan!)
Fixed milestone modifier effects from the initial playthrough of a game not being deterministic against replaying the game (via highscores.)
Fixed tooltips sometimes not returning after a screen hides.
Fixed the "See More" message in tooltips and more information not showing in certain instances. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed cooked fish kebabs having incorrect weight values in some instances.
Fixed hotkeys not working in the actions menu after changing directions. (Thanks Kenithan!)
Removed the ability for items that can't be sold to have the "Worth" legendary type.
Fixed the hoarding legendary value being shown in the wrong area on torches and candles.
Fixed lit tallow torches having the "Lit Candle" grouping instead of lit tallow candles.
Fixed the "pour" action missing on some containers of medicinal water. (Thanks DragonOvLeaves!)
Fixed dismantle actions working on protected items when using quickslots/item menu. (Thanks Amax!)
Removed medicinal item tiers as they were not used. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed winterberries changing into rotting vegetation without decay. (Thanks DragonOvLeaves!)
Fixed a slight memory leak due to help article menus.
Fixed dialogs not losing focus when interacting with the game screen.

Balance

You will no longer parry blows without having both hands equipped. (Thanks riftborn!)
Black powder is no longer reinforcable.

Mods

TARS

Fixed attempting to gather/harvest plants when tamed creatures were on top of them.
Fixed errors when attempting to reinforce armor in multiplayer.
Fixed a sequence that caused TARS to gather water from a well and pour it out repeatedly.
Disabled writing TARS logs to log files.
Fixed getting stuck staring at traders.
Fixed being unable to certain repair items if the anvil was not placed next to a kiln.
Now knows that rocks exist under snowy rocks/mountains.
Fixed TARS dropping boats after sailing on occasion due to weight.
Fixed not being able to pick-up walls when stuck behind them.
Fixed TARS being able to walk into caves (without knowing how to get back up).

[ 2020-10-11 19:45:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

Wayward Newsletter #8

Hey everybody! No patch this weekend, but we have a newsletter for you instead while we finish up the next patch. More on that below.

Week Long Deal

There's still a day or so to get Wayward for -10% off on Steam! The offer (and week) ends September 21st.

Beta 2.9.x

While our latest update (beta 2.9.5) wasn't too crazy exciting relatively speaking; it was a culmination of a couple of weeks of work while I was moving houses, and mostly done by the other team members. The next update (beta 2.9.6) we have in the queue is much of the same while I get settled in. Expect to see more bug fixes, balance tweaks, and general improvements including the advancement of the crafting sorting features: The "Best for Crafting..." sort options are now combined into one, making it a good default active sort to use along with the new "Protect" item feature when crafting for the best results. This special sort takes into account quality, tiers, weight (lower the better), and durability of items and attempts to weigh them against each other to find the very best items for crafting. [url=https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images/11320048/bee0cb17b517802295eac4d46835862402032d6e.png]

Item protection will also be getting an upgrade: Protected items are now protected from disassembling, throwing, and dropping in destructive ways. Expect to see these and more coming up in the next week or so. Much more exciting is the work we are doing on beta 2.10.0, our next major release which we entitled, "Seafarer+".

Seafarer+

Our next update, as previously revealed will focus on the advancement of the traveling and island biome systems. This major update will be a collection of everything we couldn't fit in for the last update. More content and unique scenarios for the different biomes, temperature, and world mapping are some things on the docket this time around. Here's a preview of some island art that will be showcased on the world mapping screen:

There's still a lot up in the air with temperature (haha), but here's a preview that may or may not be at all accurate in the released version:

Temperature will be introduced as at least two new status effects, "Overheating" and "Freezing", leading to negative consequences and longer-lasting status effects ("Heatstroke", "Frostbite") if left unchecked. Many things will affect your body temperature including equipment, the tile you are standing on (or around), the biome type, fires/doodads, creatures, day/night, and more! There will be many ways to control being too hot and too cold with items as well such as with eating and drinking hot/cold things. Oh ya, and take a gander at some upcoming modding changes, allowing you to create a mod page right in the game: Mod `README.md` files can now be viewed in-game. [url=https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images/11320048/f72484eb7e45ab91cf3578451650e59887ea5fd4.png]

Video Showcase

If you didn't already watch it, Splattercat made another video on Wayward for this new update and new year: [previewyoutube=vhS_W3FEZng;full][/previewyoutube] We're always super appreciative when he does a new video as it has become a huge source of new players discovering or rediscovering the game!

Mod Showcase

Special shoutout to slayerjerman who has been working a lot on graphical and music mods for Wayward, replacing our art and music with likes of that from Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, and The Legend of Zelda. Here's the full list of all mods released so far by slayerjerman: https://steamcommunity.com/id/slayerjerman/myworkshopfiles/?appid=379210 A few screenshots from these: [url=https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images/11320048/ee121bebb7bb4ba7c1aac9a91a36b887bdbbb18a.png]

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While they don't replace everything at the moment (that's a monumental task), it's quite interesting to see how other art styles and game art look in a Wayward context.

Modding Update Guide

Speaking of modding, check out the recently released modding update guide video I produced for those of you that need some help updating a mod. It doesn't even need to be your own mod! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT2VLY7isiY

Feature Voting

Although our feature set is fairly predetermined for the next major, we'll always refer to our voting results for new upcoming features. We've recently updated and added some new options for upcoming releases. Make sure to get your voice heard here: http://www.waywardgame.com/vote

Frequently Answered Questions

As much as I like answering all the questions we get on the forums and our Discord, a lot of the times these answers are found on our FAQ page. Check it out and let me know if I am missing anything. It's also a great way to learn more about the game and its development. https://steamcommunity.com/app/379210/discussions/0/350532795327884498/ Stay tuned!

[ 2020-09-19 22:08:32 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.9.5 Released

We're back this weekend with another minor patch! Apologies on the delay for this one. Things are finally settling down for me again after a recent move. This week we have a bunch of bug fixes as per normal as well as some general improvements, many of which are community-submitted from our Discord and on the Steam forums. Bonus Tip Not all resources can be found on the starting coastal island. Many resources, creatures, and plants are unique to each island type or are more commonly found in certain biomes. For example, although clay can be found near swamps and in caves near water on the starting coastal islands, it's much easier to be found all over the arid island type including under all desert sand. Iron is most abundant in ice cap islands as another example. Bonus Promotion SplatterCatGaming once again graces our community's presence with a brand new Wayward video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhS_W3FEZng

Improvements

The server browser now shows current island details (biome type and x/y).
Added full support for loading dedicated server saves and backups as a non-dedicated server or game and vice versa.
Lower decay items will now be sorted at the front or back instead of in the middle when sorting by decay.
Sorts are no longer sorted by their inverse when switching to a new type of sort.
Increased tick time limit to 2333ms max.
The /commands command will now only show commands you can perform. Command.
Added a confirmation for when attempting to drop a container with item(s) into deep water or the void.
You can no longer dig entrances into the void.
Improved the display of the about menu when using an interface scale less than 1.
Improved the display of the highscore menu when using an interface scale less than 1.

Bug Fixes

Fixed challenge quest creatures spawning in inappropriate scenarios (like fishing them up). (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed a message bug when boarding a second boat while already on a boat. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed not being able to protect items in chests. (Thanks Luxodjen!)
Fixed refining being able to reduce featherweight items past 0.1 weight. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed tree bark and tail feathers being able to be dismantled into items with more minimum weight. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed refining, enchanting, and transmogrifying certain items not using the proper skills. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed a few issues related to UI input and events when saving and re-loading a game, such as one which caused screenshot mode to only work for some of the UI. (Hotfixed)
Fixed creatures being able to walk on the void. (Thanks [SOA] Slade Wilson!)
Fixed attempting to paddle on top of creatures, doodads, and more allowing you to use a boat on land. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed spending a turn when attempting to use a boat outside of water.
Fixed equipping the torch twice in challenge mode with eternal night challenge enabled. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed MORE instances of players in multiplayer games rejoining as new characters if the game was ever closed without a save (due to crashes or incorrect server shutdowns).
Fixed dropping containers into water moving contained items into player's inventories.
Fixed performing commands that you did not have access to not showing any message/output.
Fixed challenge modifiers changing in Challenge Mode when traveling to a new island. (Thanks cloudcover!)
Fixed milestone modifiers that added percentages to all skills producing a blank skill type. (Thanks bored_o_mir!)
Fixed not being able to travel to another island if all other players left and you had a vote timeout. (Thanks Ardy!)
Fixed loading really old saves causing fog of war to be reset.
Fixed item notifications no longer showing after sailing to civilization and returning to the island.
Fixed some trypos. (Thanks Ursa!) (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed some language being cached incorrectly, causing some values to keep displaying the same, even as they are changing internally. (Hotfixed)

Balance

Tamed monsters no longer break doodads (walls, chests, etc.).
Crafted items can now be reinforced higher than found/looted items (if they can be crafted).
You can no longer disassemble candles.

Modding

Internal texture sizes are now automatically expanded to support mods with a large number of sprites. (Thanks slayerjerman!)
Fixed typing for global renderer variable.
You can now use @Mod.instance(), @Mod.log(), @Mod.saveData(), and @Mod.globalData() without a name argument on mod classes.

Technical

When loading Wayward using a custom resource directory, the game will now show the version appended with "(Custom)".

Mods

TARS

Learned how to use boats.
Will no longer run away from creatures only to end up drowning.
No longer kills itself by drinking unpurified water while at low health.
Fixed sometimes sleeping to death when trying to traverse large bodies of water.
Will now keep additional food in its inventory instead of moving them into chests.
Fixed TARS not pathing past NPCs.
Will now look for better tools after obtaining better weapons and armor.
Learned how to live on Arid islands.
Learned how to live on Ice Cap islands.
Now travels to other islands after expending the current island's resources.

Fixed tall doodads not rendering correctly. (Thanks ______!)

Fixed sail to civilization not working.
Fixed the "Tamed" checkbox not updating when viewing subsequent creatures.

[ 2020-09-13 21:16:14 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.9.4 Released

A new weekend, a new set of changes! This time around we have a pretty substantial set of changes for balance as well as a brand new item protection feature ready for everybody to check out.
You can hover over items and use "P" or right-click them and select the "Protect" option to protect items. Protected items will not be used in crafting, dismantling, or auto-carving (from the action menu), so you never have to worry about crafts breaking your prized axe anymore! Bonus Tip There are more differences between resting and sleeping than just being able to cancel out of rest. While you rest or sleep, your hunger and thirst rate is reduced and your stamina and health are regenerated. But these effects are stronger when sleeping. You can only ever rest until you have full stamina, whereas with sleeping, you will sleep for as long as you aren't interrupted among many other factors including your camping skill and whether you are around a fire source. There's a lot more to this and is explained in full detail within the help menu located in-game by pressing the "?" icon in the top menu bar or by pressing "/" by default. Bonus Promotion Check out our newly updated voting page for helping us prioritize upcoming features. Not everything is listed here of course, but most of the major things are. Let me know if something is missing!

New

Added a new selectable "Protected" item feature instead of only being able to apply it to equipped/quickslotted items. You can hover over items and use "P" or right-click them and select the "Protect" option to protect items.

Improvements

Reduced the amount of delay after swapping positions or being blocked by creatures.
"Carve with Tool" action will no longer use "Protected" items.
Item tooltips are now updated as changes are made to the item.
The sort menu for crafting/inventory dialogs is now ordered based on frequently used selections and shows which is the default in each case.
Quality is no longer included when sorting by name (except in the cases of legendary types).
Spruce cones can now be used for stoking fires.
Removed delay from some actions that did not require it and added it for those that required it to fix quickslot usage issues.
Removed "Protected Crafting Items" and "Protect Crafting Items for Containers" in favor of the new individual item protection system.

Bug Fixes

Fixed sorting by name doing a reverse sort and the reverse sort doing a normal sort.
Fixed multiple multiplayer desyncs related to owners of tamed creatures disconnecting.
Fixed a glitched item highlighting feature when hovering over boosted skills (from legendary effects) in your skills dialog. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed a multiplayer desync that occurred when players attempted to rejoin the server if they previously left while sleeping/resting.
Fixed an error when updating the mod.json file of a mod after publishing, and added a new, more correct & useful warning for if a situation like this happens again.
Fixed being able to join the server as a local game if in the process of connecting the server shut down.
Fixed "Navigator" milestone triggering incorrectly. (Thanks Lardi!)
Fixed an oversight that made it so tiered treasure chests did not have ever-increasing item quality chances. (Thanks Franck!)

Balance

Increased the health and damage of many mid-tier creatures.
Reduced damage blocked by parrying slightly.
Low tier treasure chests will now only provide copper-based tools, armor, and weapons. High tier treasure chests will provide wrought-iron drops instead of iron.
Treasure chests that are lockpicked will now be damaged, reducing usability when disassembling.

Modding

Added support for mods that are bigger than 100MB.
Improved performance of uploading/downloading workshop files.
Modded status effect renderers can now cancel base-game layer rendering. (Thanks Saervok!)
Added support for skipping walk to tile's blocked tile check.
Leftover Steam Cloud files are now cleaned up after publishing mods.

Technical

Crafts are now defaulted to sort by discovered time due to performance concerns.
Improved the performance of sorting, filtering, and updates to the inventory and crafting dialogs.
Upgraded Wayward to TypeScript 4.

Mods

TARS

No longer gets stuck when attempting to travel past open fire.
Fixed TARS sometimes getting stuck when trying to carve a corpse if it doesn't have an item that can carve.
Will prefer rocks over rock ground when looking for a sharp rock.
Protects swords from being used when dismantling.
No longer thinks the world is round.
Won't try to dig under chests anymore.
Will now reinforce good equipment when its durability gets low.
Fixed getting stuck if an NPC walked in its way.
Fixed loop of taking and removing items from chests when near max weight.

[ 2020-08-23 20:34:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.9.3 Released

Some more bugs bite the dust in beta 2.9.3. We have also refined the modding workflow and improved a few areas of the game including performance. Take a gander at what we tweaked and fixed this week with the changelog below. Also, for any TARS fans out there, check out that beefy list of changes! Bonus Tip What's better than getting headbutted by a goat? Well, a lot of things, including taming them and letting them produce milk for you. Goats can easily be tamed with leaves (by offering them, or by leaving them on the ground). You can attempt to "Gather Milk" with any liquid container when facing the goat. Make sure to keep taming it so it can produce more and more milk over time. Petting goats will also help them produce milk faster. Bonus Promotion Wondering where most of these bugs are being uncovered at? Our Discord of course! We have a great Discord community full of theory-crafting, bug hunting, and general fawning over upcoming features. Have an old mod you need to update? Not sure where to start? I did a modding update guide video with an example mod to perhaps help you out with that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT2VLY7isiY

New

Added a /backup chat command for dedicated servers.

Improvements

Improved the accuracy of the anatomy-based "mostly uninjured" message by adding a case for full health creatures/players/NPCs. (Thanks Ursa!)
The save game button is now hidden for clients in multiplayer games.
Removed "Reputation" messages from the "Chat" message filter by default.
Removed vagueness in wording for enchant/transmogrify actions. (Thanks Ursa!)
Player "turns" now start as 1 instead of 0.
Added a new "Events" message filter type and added several messages that were not categorized/miscategorized before.

Bug Fixes

Fixed traveling to the west and east always producing the same island.
Fixed errors and desyncs related to fish and other creatures moving at the edge of the world.
Fixed auto save options only appearing in quick settings (and removed it from there as well). (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed clients in multiplayer games not receiving credit for Navigator and Helmsman milestones.
Fixed dedicated servers not saving fog of war of players when running in console mode.
Fixed creatures being forced to spawn over tiles they shouldn't when gathering treasure. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed updating binds not showing on quickslots until a restart.
Prevented new players that join non-pvp dedicated servers that switched islands from spawning at the edge of the map.
Fixed renamed items reverting when canceling a rename action. (Thanks Azhukar!)
Fixed weight not being updated when attempting to paddle when a boat was placed within a container.
Fixed penguins providing an incorrect reputation amount when killing them. (Thanks Ursa!)
Fixed instances of players in multiplayer games rejoining as new characters if the game was ever closed without a save (due to crashes or incorrect server shutdowns).
Fixed walk to tile failing if a tamed creature is in the way but cannot be swapped.
Fixed containers staying open when they were dropped into the void or deep water.
Fixed mods breaking with "!" in the game's path. (Thanks Cth!)
Removed the "You see a fire spread uncontrollably." message from the "Reputation" message filter. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed sailboats not warning about breakage on use.
Fixed eating aloe vera leaves also "applying" them, curing the burned status effect. (Thanks Ursa!)
Fixed saved opened containers not showing their name or calculating their weight.
Fixed some tiepos. (Thanks Ursa!)

Balance

Increased the amount of glue/resin required to fully reinforce normal quality items, while reducing the amount required as quality increases (was previously the reverse of these rules).

Modding

Fixed mod publishing erroring when publishing a mod with comments in its mod.json file.
Fixed the wayward +mod update command not updating the waywardVersion property in the mod.json file.
Fixed JSON comments not being supported with wayward +mod command.

Technical

Improved performance when dismantling, disassembling, and many other item interactions. (Thanks Arnkh!)
The launch_options.json file can now have comments.

Mods

TARS

Fixed getting stuck by a tree if there was a corpse on top of it.
Will no longer try to repair kindling items.
Will now disable right hand when it's a shield. The left hand equip will try to be the appropriate damage type against the nearest creature.
Fixed failing to run away from creatures when at low health.
Will destroy trees more often if they are in the way of quicker pathing.
Fixed harvestable trees being ignored when searching for items.
Added the ability to create and use multiple water containers.
Will attempt to carry multiple kindling items in the inventory to start fires easier.
TARS will maintain a tidy base by moving items that are on the ground into chests after it obtains a leather armor set.
Will carry food, water, and a bandage with it before attempting to upgrade weapons and armor past leather.
Will no longer get stuck attempting to move to the same targets over and over.
Now always uses a knife when a recipe requires a sharpened to stop ruining swords!
Will no longer be scared of sharks when wearing decent equipment.
Will leave extra items at the base before moving far away.
No longer attempts to run away from targets that do not move, getting stuck.
Fixed TARS sometimes trying to dig/carve when it can't.
Will prioritize crafting items when all the requirements are within inventory (stops filling inventory up before crafting).
Will craft items that require a furnace/anvil more reliably (hopefully).
Will now return to drop off items at base once it's carrying too much.
Added the ability to create and use multiple water stills.

[ 2020-08-16 19:03:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.9.2 Released

Another weekend, another release! So, it turns out there was more issues to fix up. Quite a bit more in fact. Thanks for all the reports! Keep them coming if you find any new issues. There's a few new feature and improvements thrown in for good measure too. Enjoy! Bonus Tip For an alternative water source, you can build wells. These wells produce water based on where they are built. The rate of water corresponds directly with where they are built in relation to the cave system below them. Build them over impassable terrain like rocks in the caves and they will slowly trickle in groundwater. Build them over underground lakes and water sources and you will get an unlimited source of water. Build them over dirt, gravel, or other passable terrain and they will not produce any water. If you have a cave entrance nearby, you can count the steps or tiles to judge where to build it above ground. Bonus Promotion Check out our Twitter for keeping up-to-date on everything Wayward. We tend to post smaller updates and news pieces there that are too small for a Steam news post.

New

Added a new "Drop on Dismantle" option.
Added a new note for hunger/starvation.

Improvements

Containers now re-open when reloading a game or traveling.
Items crafted now properly checks your inventory and containers within your inventory in order, instead of checking sub-containers last. (Thanks riftborn!)
Clicking the clear/exit button in filters now removes focus from the filter.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a crash involving the skills dialog. (Thanks Levvy!)
Fixed cases where extinguished lit doodads (like furnaces, campfires, etc.) could decay and become destroyed. (Thanks Ursa!)
Fixed an issue where inputs could become "stuck" on after typing in the crafting/inventory filters. (Thanks Jiamil!)
Fixed creatures being able to walk over NPCs.
Fixed treasure being able to spawn in void in cave layers. (Thanks Vardis!)
Fixed macro bindings being lost on reload.
Fixed the wrong terrain type being set when placing down tiles in the "Ice Cap" region. (Thanks Vardis!)
Fixed world tooltips not working after dragging and dropping an item to the game screen. (Thanks Vardis!)
Fixed duplicate messages showing up when rejoining multiplayer games.
Fixed needing to use the "Show More Information" bind once after changing the "Always Show More Information" option. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed render depth/order not working correctly at certain positions on the map. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed macro input being doubled up and reset at the wrong times, causing double click to sometimes not work on items. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed join server retry button not always working correctly.
Fixed multiplayer clients sometimes displaying messages for other players.
Fixed save interrupts not always showing.
Fixed permanently burning not reducing player health in the challenge mode at certain health/strength values.
Fixed some status effects not properly affecting regeneration/reduction of stats.
Fixed "Worth" item value dropping unexpectedly due to reinforcement/durability calculations. (Thanks Vardis!)
Fixed damage notifiers moving sporadically after killing creatures while moving.
Fixed ash appearing over rock/impassible terrain. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed the permanently poisoned challenge modifier reducing player strength/health to very low values.
Fixed the "Operator" milestone not being obtainable. (Thanks Caerold!)
Display the correct message when gathering/harvesting if the "Drop on Gather/Harvest" option was enabled but the tile beneath you was full.
Fixed stats not showing properly after loading a save game that uses milestone modifiers until one turn has passed.
Fixed dedicated servers timing out (and not reconnecting to matchmaking server) after traveling on lower-end hardware.
Fixed milestone modifiers not applying after travel. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed the "Explorer" milestone being unobtainable. (Thanks Oragepoilu!)
Fixed closing the action menu with a click off of the menu not showing tooltips afterward in certain instances. (Thanks AxelDominatoR!)
Fixed quickslots changing item types when using items that turned into others.
Fixed solar stills being referred to as water stills in some cases. (Thanks Vardis!)
Fixed several cases of capitalization issues in notes. (Thanks Ursa!)
Fixeded some typos. (Thanks riftborn!) (Thanks Vardis!)
Fixed incorrect upgrade check on saves, leading to very large saves after repeated loads. (Thanks Amax!) (Hotfixed)
Fixed multiple multiplayer desyncs related to merchants, wells, and creature movement/offering. (Hotfixed)
Fixed the backup command not backing up if backups weren't enabled. (Hotfixed)

Balance

Permanent status effect challenges will no longer modify player strength/health or give additional healing items. They are balanced through their effect rates now.
Made stoke values for items consistent. (Thanks !)

Modding

Comments are now supported in mod JSON files (mod.json, language files, etc), using Microsoft's jsonc-parser module. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed modded items with undefined weight causing your weight to show as NaN.
Fixed status effect icon paths not being relative to mod directory.

Technical

In-game messages are now once again logged to the console & log files.
Fixed source map warnings showing in developer console.

Mods

Reincarnate

Lava will no longer count as a valid tile to spawn on. (Thanks Amax!)

Added a new item group to all troposphere items and added additional groups to all items that matched ones from the base game.
Snowflakes can now be used as "liquid" items or used for drinking and can be found via storm stones or boulders rarely.

Wayward Beta 2.9 "Seafarer" Released

Added /DebugToolsPermission chat command. This lets dedicated servers enable debug tools for players.

TARS

Will no longer kill itself while resting repeatedly in multiplayer or real-time games when hungry.
Will no longer eat grass seeds.
Fixed TARS not always functioning correctly after respawning if permadeath was disabled.
Fixed more water still issues.
Fixed issues with gathering water.
Fixed TARS sometimes getting stuck in infinite loops when trying to acquire items.
Will now attempt to only move items TARS needs into its inventory when gathering and dismantling items.
Fixed being unable to repair copper items.

[ 2020-08-09 18:18:29 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.9.1 Released

Hey all, First off, I want to thank you all for the great turn-out for this major release so far. I've had tons of fun checking out all the new changes/content and traveling with everybody in multiplayer. This patch will hopefully fix most lingering, serious issues to the game while we get started on the next major patch. As mentioned previously in the major update patch notes, we want to get started right away on a bigger update instead of supplying a bunch of smaller patches. In theory, this is the last smaller one, but we'll continue to fix any issues as they are encountered and reported. As always, you can stay up-to-date with our nightly changes on the development branch in the middle of bigger releases where we aren't patching as often. If you were unfortunate enough to have the seed corruption issue, please send me your save along with the seed that you set an I can restore the issue for you. It looks like this issue was pretty rare, but we have fixed any future issues concerning it. Bonus Tip Did you know that planting seeds and growing plants in fertile soil will not only make them grow faster but also spread to adjacent tiles once they reach the "ripening" stage? Each plant has their own unique growth rate and spread amount. Bonus Promotion Check out our Subreddit that has recently just got a bunch of new activity: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wayward/

New

Added a custom game options to disable traveling effects for all players or just offline players.

Improvements

New islands are now deterministic and based on the original seed.
Turns now pass normally when players are ghosts.
Changed order of custom game options based on perceived frequent/important usage.
Removed the ability to trade with merchants after they had already moved away from your facing position (while in multiplayer).
Void tiles will now be placed on the edges of all cave layers for compatibility with old saves.
Links in the changelog menu now appear the same way as other links.

Bug Fixes

Fixed seeds with large numbers not being saved properly. (Thanks ODevil!)
Seeds are now sanitized, preventing potential strange terrain generation with unorthodox values.
Fixed performing actions from item menus moving the menu position instead of closing it after performing an action that caused the player to update their direction. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed container dialogs changing their position/size when traveling. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed other items being used swapped as your boat after traveling in rare instances. (Thanks Caerold!)
Fixed being able to move items into merchant's inventories (without trading). (Thanks Oragepoilu!)
Fixed fish (and some other items) returning bones both when being cooked and when eaten. (Thanks Abs!)
Fixed quickslotting containers not toggling open/close properly on hotkey press. (Thanks Caerold!)
Fixed torches spawned in caves not having proper decay values set.
Fixed game options not being correctly initialized for old save games. Fixes the new respawning system not being available in old save games that were set to "Casual". (Thanks AxelDominatoR!)
Fixed moving not causing item menus to close (like action menus do).
Fixed the export and counterclockwise buttons not working on the character selection screen at low resolutions. (Thanks Aurum!)
Fixed a problem that could cause the selected mod language to not be loaded on startup. (Thanks Lovefield!)
Improved reliability of traveling in multiplayer.
Fixed players that log in over water not swimming by default.
Fixed many multiplayer desyncs.
Fixed line of sight still being applied as a ghost in multiplayer.
Fixed being able to still be on your boat after traveling with PVP enabled and spawning on land.
Fixed paddling facing deep water tiles extinguishing held lit torches/candles.
Fixed excessive recent packet logging in multiplayer.
Fixed errors when mods try to get bindings for unregistered bindables.
Fixed the Helmsman milestone needing to travel to four islands instead of three. (Thanks Caerold!)
Fixed fog of war resetting when rejoining dedicated servers.
Fixed Steam and Discord Rich Presence showing the wrong player counts for multiplayer games.
Improved the grammar in the failed to cook message. (Thanks !)
Fixed an oversight when players could attempt to travel in caves. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed an error when exporting save games that have not yet been loaded/saved in the latest version. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed joining games from Discord not initializing Steam integration correctly.
Fixed an issue where clients could not move on dedicated servers. (Hotfixed)

Balance

Reduced the chances of traveled to islands being "Coastal" types.
Reduced obscuring effect on tattered maps slightly.
Slimes will no longer combine into Jelly Cubes at reputation levels where they couldn't spawn normally.
All mushrooms will no longer increase thirst/dehydration and will spawn more commonly frequently in the coastal island.
Added more difficult creature spawns to "Arid" caves.

Modding

Fixed invalid argument segments disappearing from output strings.
Fixed the list segment not working correctly for some values.
The list segment now supports {...}, formatting a list of all arguments.
Fixed the escape segment not removing its own curly braces.
Fixed status effect registration. (Thanks Noita!)
Fixed modded status effect handlers not re-initializing on loading saved games. (Thanks Noita!)
Increased reliability of publishing/updating mods. (Hotfixed)
Publishing Workshop mods that contain symlinks will no longer throw errors. (Hotfixed)

Technical

Various logging events will no longer be logged without "Developer Mode" enabled.
Added support for enabling/disabling sync checks from commands.
Reduced the amount of logging to log files.

Mods

TARS

Improved logic when waiting for water from a water still in multiplayer.
Removed "leave desert" functionality that no longer applies for coastal islands.
Will now ensure the base is built near a suitable water source.
Fixed sometimes not being able to build an anvil.
Fixed being unable to repair items that require an anvil and fire.
Fixed rare infinite loop when trying to move items to chests.
Fixed TARS switching hands constantly after dying in some instances in casual mode.
Will now respawn when dying in casual games.
Fixed memory errors/issues after running for extended periods of time through multiple games.

[ 2020-07-31 19:41:07 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey all! Introducing, "Seafarer", the 9th major release of Wayward on Steam, and the end of limited exploration in the game. You can now sail the seas and explore new worlds and sets of islands. A few stand-out features in this release also include:

Added infinite persistent travel to up to three different types of islands, "Coastal", "Arid" and "Ice Cap".
Players in multiplayer can now travel together to new islands using a new voting system.
Encumbrance, dehydration, starvation, and exhaustion are all now status effects that appear in the UI. Their tooltips provide additional information and are more accurate with increased anatomy skill.
Added new locked forms of all chests with varied/tiered loot and quality for both generated chests and unearthed treasure chests.
The "Traverse the Seas" action and functionality have been removed in exchange for the new traveling system. The bull boat/sail boat can now be used to "paddle" like the raft.
Water now has a depletable but slowly regenerative amount of fish and items. You will need to move to other areas to successfully fish when depleted.
Dying in casual mode or with the "respawn" option enabled now causes players to become a ghost with a "respawn" button available. The ghost can travel around to any revealed location in the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwIAok4T9yE This release was one of those big ones. Adding infinite procedural generation while keeping the world feel smaller and meaningful was no easy task. But it's also one of those things that tons of players were clamoring for. Like some of the other big releases under our belt like beta 2.5 which added multiplayer; a feature I previously said would probably never happen. This was also one of those things design wise I was pretty strongly against initially and thought tech-wise, we would probably never manage to do. Well, I am constantly proven wrong by both what I think players would want most, and what my co-developers are able to pull off. Shout-out to:

Gary 'Spacetech' Wilber (Programming)
Dusty 'Goaticide' Melling (Art/Design)
Mackenzie 'Chiri' McClane (Programming/UX)

We still have lots of iterate on with the concept of island types and seafaring in general. Our plan with this cycle is to focus on a pretty large content patch somewhere in the set of 2.9.x releases, so the releases might be a bit more sparse than normal after a major release. This is because we want to focus on some bigger additional content for Seafarer. Things like temperature, more biome content and other unique island-based features like charting/mapping features. We'll still be providing bug fixes of course. As with all major releases so far, I'll be doing some streaming tonight as well as over this week at random points. This time I'll be doing it live on the Wayward Steam store page. You can tune in from there, or from the Broadcasts page: https://steamcommunity.com/app/379210/broadcasts/ Check out our Discord for more information and future community news: https://discord.gg/wayward or just add me as a friend on Steam to chat. Also, like other major releases, Wayward is currently on sale for -20% off for a full week. Speaking of Steam, as most of you might know, that in the ashes of the recent Steam Summer sale, you might have some extra Steam "points" laying around. I would encourage everybody to give out some rewards to all the community contributors out there for Wayward. Reviews, guides, Workshop mods, screenshots, and more! Show them some love! Have fun! Vaughn 'Drathy' Royko

[strike]Wall of text[/strike] changelog below:

New

Added infinite persistent travel to up to three different types of islands, "Coastal", "Arid" and "Ice Cap".
Added 6 new creatures, 3 new plants, 6 new terrain types and 12 new items, all to exist exclusively in the new "Ice Cap" island type.
There is a new "void" tile in the cave layer that acts as an impassable terrain type that can be used to remove items.
Players in multiplayer can now travel together to new islands using a new voting system.
At high cartography skill levels, you will now begin to reveal fog/unexplored tiles when decoding maps. Drawing maps will reveal all fog/unexplored tiles in the area at medium skill levels.
Inspecting a tile now opens a dialog containing all the information, rather than putting it into messages. The dialog automatically updates as the tile contents change.
Encumbrance, dehydration, starvation, and exhaustion are all now status effects that appear in the UI. Their tooltips provide additional information and are more accurate with increased anatomy skill.
You can now import and export your list of milestone modifiers.
You can now add "macro" bindings, a sequence of inputs such as double/triple click. Double click has been added as a default bind for showing context menus, to improve touch support.
Added new locked forms of all chests with varied/tiered loot and quality for both generated chests and unearthed treasure chests.
Dying in casual mode or with the "respawn" option enabled now causes players to become a ghost with a "respawn" button available. The ghost can travel around to any revealed location in the world.
Added a "shark tooth" item, a new brittle, but higher tiered sharpened item.
Added a saveDirectory launch option that will allow you to modify the save directory for the game.
Added the "Helmsman" milestone, for traveling to all the different island types.
Added a "aloe vera bandage" item, a new type of bandage that can heal health as well as cure both bleeding and burned status effects.
Added the milestone, "Multitasker", for using each skill at least once.
Added a note for sailing to civilization.
Added a borderless launch option that will open the game without a frame (when not running in fullscreen).
Added two new books.

Improvements

The "Traverse the Seas" action and functionality have been removed in exchange for the new traveling system. The bull boat/sail boat can now be used to "paddle" like the raft.
You will now see a secondary preview of your path when holding down control (by default) when already moving along the path.
The "bleeding", "poisoned", and "burned" status effects now show additional information based on your anatomy skill.
Improved player path-finding when traversing over water.
You can now select multiple saves at once in the load game menu with right click or S for deletion.
You can now see the game's averaged reputation between all players in the reputation tooltip.
You can now use ctrl+drag (by default) to move all of an item type.
The sextant will now show which island/area coordinates you are in as well as the normal x/y.
Crafts will only be updated after movement has stopped to avoid lag caused from adjacent containers/items.
Using drop, move or grab all actions while filtering items will now only apply those actions to the matching filtered items.
The game's displayed difficulty now takes into account all players reputations.
The "skip splash screen" option now completely skips the splash screen.
Merchants will now wear and gather stock/inventory suitable to the island type they are in.
Dialogs no longer change their min/max sizes as the UI scale is changed.
Newly imported slots in the load game menu now appear with a yellow border.
When moving the mouse from a mini-button to the button it's on, that button's tooltip will now be shown.
Worlds no longer wrap in on themselves from the edges.
The new dialogs can now be moved and resized with touch.
Added "input", "enable", and "disable" sound effects, to improve audio cues on UI interactions.
Navigating between UI components with the keyboard now shows any tooltips for the focused component.
The skills dialog's skill tooltips no longer show legendary items that are not equipped.
Tooltips now have slightly lighter backgrounds and a subtle border to more clearly separate them from other UI components.
You can now pet creatures that are tamed by other players.
Improved the order of rendering items and tile events over/above creatures and players.
Increased the maximum size of the player stats when viewed in a tooltip to allow space for larger values.
Redesigned context menus, as seen on newer UI components, to improve usability and increase consistency.
The "food" group has been removed/replaced by other groupings.
Certain terrain templates (houses, oases, etc.) will have individually set chances for items/doodads/skeletons to appear.
World tooltips are now event-based changes will be reflected in the tooltip without it having to disappear and regenerate.
There are now two levels of height when creatures (or players) are flying over either short or tall objects/terrain.
Improved accuracy of sorting by craft requirements/consumables.
You can now reset the position of a dialog by right clicking on the dialog's name.
Improved death animation so fog of war is not revealed first before fade-in.
Legendary featherweight items now also show their total weight instead of just their reduced weight.
The search bar in the help menu now sticks to the top of the menu rather than scrolling away. Filtered-out help articles that share rows with filtered-in help articles are now shown as transparent.
Switched the default positions of the "notes" and "quests" dialog in order to improve usability for new players.
Redesigned menu tabs. The active menu tabs are now highlighted as you scroll and navigate.
The default "drop all" bind has been changed to Ctrl+Q to match other "all item" binds.
Introduced many items that will now spawn on certain terrain types on world generation.
You now have to be in a sailboat to sail to civilization.
Certain terrain types will now reduce in durability and eventually be burned when there is an uncontained fire on them.
Items and item groups that are used in recipes are now searchable in the crafting dialog when filtering.
Improved the readability of disabled mods in save tooltips.
Tattered maps will no longer reset when traveling (and store which set of island(s) they belong to).
Sorting by name now takes legendary types into account.
Tweaked the background color of non-interactable UI elements in menus in order to make it more obvious that they're non-interactable.
Slider inputs in menus can now be adjusted with the left and right arrow keys.
The skills dialog now shows more clearly when & which legendary items are applying bonuses to a skill.
Closing containers will now close any sub containers.
You can now cancel move-to-tile pathing with right click, by default.
The milestones dialog now updates after resetting milestone progress.

Bug Fixes

Fixed winning screen not showing to host in challenge mode.
Fixed water contamination spread not working or saving properly.
Fixed tilling removing tile qualities.
Fixed instances of burn damage occurring twice or protection not being used properly.
Fixed an oversight that resulted in items having higher decay values than intended.
Fixed an issue where hoarding legendary bonuses were not applied when crafting them.
Fixed fire being able to propagate over and be fueled from germinating plants.
Fixed being able to start fires in the caves with a lens. (Thanks fils.delaroche!)
Corrected an oversight so that auto save can now occur (depending on settings) in games with respawning, while host player is a ghost, and in dedicated servers.
Fixed creatures clipping into the top of tall doodads like trees.
Fixed gaining reputation when attempting to fish in areas with no fish (like, for example: LAND).
Fixed a bug where salvaging no items from disassembling an item could still lead to a salvaged message. (Thanks zuoanqh!)
Fixed the tooltips of multiple challenge modifiers not being accurate when playing multiple challenge games.
Fixed decay level not transferring to dismantled items. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed the dismantle warning not providing the item name that may break on use. (Thanks Matthew Cline!)
Fixed tall doodads clipping into player graphics while wearing a helmet.
Fixed differences between moveComplete and noInput events in multiplayer versus singleplayer. (Thanks DJAntonBruckner!)
Fixed inaccuracies in describing fire source bonuses in relation to sleeping/resting in the help menu. (Thanks zuoanqh!)
Fixed items clipping into trees and other tall doodads and obscuring players too much.
Square dialogs (IE, the map dialog) now can only be resized by the corners, they snap to other dialogs, and no matter how you resize them, will always remain square.
Fixed some sprite batches being out of sync on movement. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed pathing through hitched and tamed creatures causing infinite movement. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed players always spawning randomly on PVP-enabled multiplayer games when rejoining.
Fixed several server arguments not applying when loading an existing dedicated server game. (Thanks aikainnet!)
Fixed resting or sleeping on placed doodad bedding items being offset incorrectly.
Fixed an error when exporting the message history.
Fixed needing treasure in your main inventory to sail. (Thanks Azated!)
Fixed dropdowns not playing "select" and "activate" sounds when using keyboard support.
Fixed some actions from spamming messages when used in certain ways from quickslot hotkeys.
Fixed attributes cutting off when using alternate font style and interface scaling.
Fixed a bug where unlit torches/candles would automatically be destroyed when being lit from torches or have really low starting values when being lit through fire-making devices.
Fixed a rare bug in multiplayer games connected using the Steam Relay Network which could cause an "Unable to join game" dialog to appear while playing
Fixed instances where flying creatures did not "float" over certain tall/blocked objects.
Fixed carpet not being flammable.
Fixed an instance where the water still graphic could become corrupted or inaccurate to the amount of fuel it had.
Fixed a tattered map exploit where you could gather treasure in a guaranteed location in the world on maps that spawned on world generation.
Fixed the scrollbar being hidden in the message dialog when many messages were shown and scrolled to the bottom.
Possibly fixed some uncommon client-side mod loading issues in multiplayer games. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed legendary featherweight containers not showing the weight of items contained inside within the item's tooltip.
Fixed up/down arrows to re-send previous chat messages not working anymore.
Fixed the tile inspection tooltip not always showing when you first loaded a world or when you closed an interrupt in specific cases.
Fixed multiplayer settings being reset when loading a multiplayer save without hosting. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed mods showing in red when viewing which mods are enabled while hosting a server. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed choosing a new game from the multiplayer menu not appending "Untitled Save" with a number. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed items that are renamed not being filtered properly.
Fixed no issues being reported when trying to join a multiplayer game with mods that could not be loaded.
Fixed container errors on older save games.
Fixed "killed by" messages appearing for save slots that were in casual mode/had re-spawning enabled.
Fixed crafting and consuming fish kebab not damaging the wooden pole. (Thanks riftborn!)
Fixed keyboard support for dropdowns.
Fixed multiple multiplayer desyncs.
Fixed some errors grammatical.
Fixed some fires going out instantly when being started from a lit torch.
Fixed performing actions on the tile you are facing counting as "under" you in some cases. (Thanks DJAntonBruckner!)
Fixed some graphical issues with clay water stills.
Fixed an exploit regarding moving a raft to a chest or selling it to a merchant while paddling. (Thanks AI Player 2!)
Fixed being able to "rest on ground" inside boats while on shallow water or while facing a placed bedding item.
Fixed wooden shields not burning properly. (Thanks Caerold!)
Fixed being able to use the keyboard to select and edit the seed input when "Daily Challenge" mode is enabled.
Fixed a rare instance where creatures could not be tamed from offerings on ground if two or more players were around and the closest player was not in line of sight to the creature.
Fixed static in-game UI elements overlapping status effects.

Balance

Water now has a depletable but slowly regenerative amount of fish and items. You will need to move to other areas to successfully fish when depleted.
Reduced slime splitting and combining chances heavily.
The Starter Quest has been reduced in complexity due to the removal of sandstone/desert accessibility features.
Attaching a container to stills is now only blocked by items if they fill the tile completely.
Desalinating water from water/solar stills now takes 250 turns instead of 300.
Tattered maps can now point to treasure in the cave layer uncommonly with negative reputation.
Decreased the chance of burning pain passing on its own.
Logs will now dismantle into 4 wooden poles (down from 5). Logs (and all crafts that use them) have been reduced in weight slightly.
Iron deposits have been reduced within the starting "Coastal" island type, but increased heavily in the other island types.
Quality will now have a much stronger impact on an item's decay value.
Clay is now very rare within the "Coastal" island type (appearing in caves/swamps), but appears much more commonly in "Arid" island types.
Traveling and sailing to civilization will now no longer damage you based on food/water during the traveling sequence.
You can no longer use sundials to gain skills (or stats) after 40% camping skill.
You will now be able to tell the exact hour when using a sundial (instead of an estimate) when over 40% camping skill now instead of 50%.
You will now receive malignancy when overflowing fire by stoking the fire too much.
You will now receive malignancy when witnessing fire spreading uncontrollably.
Deeper water will now spawn more commonly in the caves.
Snow and lava is now rare on the starting "Coastal" island type.
You are now required to decode maps before they can be gathered or dug/fished up.
Item decay is now partially transferred to cooked/crafted results.
The "Navigator" milestone is no longer "hidden", and the modifier now reduces your hunger/thirst less.
Increased drop rate of grass seeds when tilling/digging grass tiles, but increased gathering difficulty slightly and increased growth time of grass slightly.
Aberrant slimes/jelly cubes now have a chance to split into non-aberrant forms.
Unlocking locked chests will now have a chance to summon guardians. The "Locksmith" milestone modifier will now just increase this chance instead of adding that feature.

Modding

The Wayward Documentation and Modding Guide has been separated.
Added canMoveItem & canMoveItem events.
All UI colors are now set as variables, allowing for easier customization/modding and better consistency.
Improved translation support for item menu actions.
Items and doodads now have a spawnOnWorldGen property which allows you to control which biome, depth, and terrain they can spawn on world generation.
Doodad descriptions can now have custom variation calculations to choose which sprites to use based on the current doodad state.
You can now register new world layers, allowing multiple mods to add new world layers and coexist.
The "target" property in a mod's tsconfig.json is now updated automatically with the +mod update command.
You can now use the arguments after +language and +stylesheet in the +mod create command in order to specify the paths to the language JSON and CSS files.
Added a +mod help command.
Fixed mod event handlers and injections being registered on init instead of load, causing mods that were not loaded in multiplayer games to still receive events.

Technical

Updated Wayward to Electron 8.3.1.
Input/simulation has been separated from the rendering loop, leading to more responsive/accurate inputs.
Game rendering no longer happens while no changes are taking place, reducing CPU and GPU usage.
You can now reload all stylesheets with F6.
The game's input system was rewritten to be more performant and easier to work with.
Wayward has been upgraded to TypeScript 3.9.
Improved performance of pinned messages.
Added a new UI experiment "HQ font rendering" accessible in the developer options which uses workarounds to sharpen up the text in the pixel font (may cause performance issues).
Added more logging for rare save corruption instances to narrow down the issue.

Mods

Community Custom Map Stream

Fixed "add item to inventory" adding more items based on how many times the dialog was closed and opened again.
Fixed teleporting an entity between world layers not working.
Added an option to teleport between world layers.
Fixed plants not showing the proper growth cycle when generated with spawned templates.
Added a "refresh tile" button to the terrain inspection dialog.
Added the ability to disable individual layers from rendering.
Fixed fog not being updated properly as a ghost when reloading the game.
Improved the usability of the selection panel, adding an effectless "select" action and a label counting how many targets there are. The list is now logged to the console.
Fixed noclip speed and animations while over water.
Players can now be set with invulnerable and noclip statuses at the same time.

[ 2020-07-25 17:12:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Wayward Newsletter #7

Hey all, Thanks for taking a look at our 7th newsletter. Oh ya, and also happy Wayward anniversary! We have some news to share on beta 2.9 as well as information on how you can help support the project going forward as we approach some really big game-changing milestones for Wayward development. Steam Broadcast & Live Q&A As this post goes live, I'll be testing the Steam broadcasting waters so to speak with a live Q&A while playing some Wayward instead of the normal Twitch streaming I do. Tune in now (for the next couple of hours)!

Beta 2.9 Teasers & Information

Traveling Coming up in beta 2.9, we will see the ability to travel to new sets of islands without losing your current save and world, essentially, leading to infinite world generation and exploration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z13Ep4hKJPo Ice Cap Here's a sneak-peek at the new snowy biome. It's one of three themes for new island types. Each island type will feature new content, resources, and many things unique only to that island type. Beta 2.9 will feature arid, ice cap, and coastal island types for starters. We'll be working on more as we go as well.

Arid Although the desert biome has always been present in every set of islands, it will now be much more fully featured with its own unique resources and cave system. Something worth traveling for!

Usually we have everything we are working on available on our development branch. With this one, we are going to wait a bit before pushing it out for everybody to test and play with as there will likely be some game breaking bugs that we want to iron out first. Stay tuned for that!

Supporting Wayward

Wishlist & Follow First of all, if you haven't already purchased Wayward, make sure to wishlist it for the future, especially if you are one of those waiting for a non-early access release (or just waiting for a big discount) before taking the plunge. If you already have bought it, make sure to give us a follow so you can keep up with all the news and releases we announce on Steam (like this newsletter).

Tagging Steam recently added a bunch of new tags in order to label games more accurately. Due to the tumultuous history of the "roguelike" genre, we now have a "traditional roguelike" tag that properly describes games like Wayward. You can help us categorize Wayward (and any other game) with the proper tags by editing them on the store page here:

Here's all the tags that I found (arguably) fit Wayward when looking through them all:

Reviews If you haven't had a chance to leave us feedback, make sure you write a review on the game. We use review feedback as one of the ways to improve the game and add more to our ever-growing to-do list. If youve already reviewed the game, make sure to upvote any reviews you find helpful as this helps show more useful reviews to those deciding on purchasing the game or not.

Community Features

Save Games Ever since beta 2.0 when we first released on Steam, we have had support for Steam Workshop-based saves. You can see everybody's uploads here. Explore somebody else's world, or upload your own via the in-game export featured in the load game menu:

And choose the "Steam Workshop" option to share your creation or world. It's always fun snooping through other player's giant walls of wooden chests. Screenshots Taking a screenshot of your in-game creations is probably the easiest way to create community content for Wayward, not including all the time you spent building those floors and walls Heres a few of my recent favorites from the community. AI Player 2 finishes their base:

eXp reaches the iron age:

Mr. Rogers cries in slime tears:

GhettoVan shows off their island moat:

Discord The largest gathering place for our small community. If you havent joined already, make sure to do so here. Steam Chat If you are looking to chat with the Wayward community on a much smaller scale and without a separate application, then your best bet is the Wayward Steam chat. Join the chat here. Feature Voting If you haven't already checked it out, make sure to visit the feature voting page on our website to vote on upcoming features. It's looking like the next, next release is going to be dungeons, but it's a bit too early to say for sure. Dungeons are one of those really big game-changing milestones I was talking about. I hope everybody is doing good, well, as good as they can be at the moment. Stay safe! Stay tuned and thanks for the support over the years!

[ 2020-04-23 02:00:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.8.5 Released

We have a bit of an unusual release ready for everybody. A new release that is looking pretty chunky for being a minor update. This is a collection of things we have been improving while working on the next major update. Something like a midway point release. Enjoy! Let us know if you run into any issues. In other news, we have transitioned the Wayward soundtracks over to the new "Soundtrack" category on Steam. This means you can purchase them independently of the game (they no longer count as DLC).

As for news on the next major release, we have decided to work on seafaring, persistent world travel, and themed biomes/islands (and all the unique content that comes with that). Some of the things that have been continually requested by the playerbase. We'll have more news on that coming up soon! On with the changelog:

New

Added a new custom game option to limit (or increase) the amount of creature spawns.
Added more special events and petting rewards for creatures.
Implemented a multiplayer game/server description that players can use to describe their game in more detail.
Added a new legendary type for fire stoking effectiveness.

Improvements

The item break warning when crafting will now mention exactly which items may be destroyed.
The "Grab All" and "Move All" action will now adhere to item ordering.
Players will now receive a warning when using items that are in or on fire when crafting with no gloves/hand protection.
You can now split slimes without causing damage; however, the more damage caused, the higher the chance of splitting with a bonus chance applied for slashing damage. Slime ranchers rejoice!
Players, doodads, items, and creatures are now offset to more accurately match the tile they are on (instead of aligning everything to the bottom of each tile).
Movement delay caused by low stamina will now be smoothed out like when moving while overburdened. These effects will also be combined, reducing the overall impact if both are present.
Added a new "thriving" stage to fire for more accurate messaging on the strength of fires.
Action delay caused by low stamina will now only be triggered from actions that use stamina.
Rafts and spyglasses will now consume one durability when using/equipping them (but also now warn you attempting to use/equip them with 1 durability).
Fire and tumbleweeds will now appear over items, players and creatures.
When interrupts happen, the game no longer treats it as though you released your mouse button while dragging items (causing you drop items on the ground for example).
Opening containers no longer causes delay. (Thanks Ratha Wynter!)
Water stills can now be stoked (and may need to be depending on fuel/tinder/kindling used when lighting it).
Fire that spreads will now transfer some of its intensity.
The stoke value shown on items now equates to the exact amount of turns of fire decay you can expect from stoking.
Improved performance when filtering crafts, especially when moving and especially when "Use Adjacent Containers/Items" was enabled. (Thanks Dodging Rain!)
You can now pick up a water still that contains water (with a warning), emptying the liquid.
Attempting to pour liquid on a lit water still that already has water inside will now provide a warning to let you know you are putting out the fire.
You can no longer refine items if their maximum durability is too low.
Blades of grass are now edible/offerable for some creatures.
Jelly cubes can now also split into slimes with reduced chance compared to slimes.

Bug Fixes

Fixed the first attempt to drag or move an item failing after an interrupt happened (or at the start of a game).
Fixed certain cases of aberrant creatures spawning even when disabling aberrant creature spawning. (Thanks Gonzo!)
Fixed creatures not animating when attacking. Whoa, how long has it been like that?
Fixed an oversight where doodad resources had reversed chances to drop.
Fixed an issue where trees could produce less resources when using higher tiered tools or with high skill levels. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed the first click after filtering crafting items not working. (Thanks Ratha Wynter!)
Fixed a desync related to tilled ground not matching on client side when using pre-generated fertile soil to plant seeds. (Thanks Sad Blueberry!)
Fixed taming creatures resulting in errors.
Fixed the random name button not working.
Fixed the golden sextant not being required for certain actions. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed some chat messages being repeated when reloading a game.
Fixed an issue where certain items could not be refined. (Thanks Dodging Rain!)
Fixed rejoining a previously joined dedicated server not allowing you to choose a new character (when a new game was started).
Fixed sorting by crafting category showing duplicate items at the top/bottom of the list and causing performance issues.
Fixed disabled items in quickslots not able to be removed after traded to merchants and other some other rare instances. (Thanks mrco.gllrdo!)
Fixed not being able to navigate between text inputs with the keyboard.
Fixed an error when loading saved games from the Steam Workshop (again).
Fixed a few outdated item/doodad/equipment sprites.
Fixed an error when trying to drag disabled quickslot items into your equipment menu.
Fixed several broken instances where UI elements were not highlighted properly.
Fixed the set of quests sometimes changing when attempting multiple playthroughs of the challenge mode in a single session.
Fixed mods not loading if you started a game too quickly after launch.
Fixed items with modified durability rates not receiving item breaking warnings. (Thanks Dodging Rain!)
Fixed creature timers passing when player(s) are dead.
Fixed "initial time" custom game option not taking the "day length" option into account.

Balance

Fishing skill can now be gained on failed attempts at bringing up fish without bait.
Decreased difficulty of crafting clay jugs, increased difficulty of crafting clay blowpipes.
The starting level of fires are now based on what fuel/kindling/tinder were used when lighting it. Stoking and fueling after starting fires may be necessary now.
Reduced reinforcing effectiveness slightly.
Reduced chances of slimes combining into a jelly cube.
Increased the stoke values of all flammable items slightly.
Reduced chance to stir up fish and item catching when fishing slightly.
Decreased chance to discover cave entrance when gathering.
Items with modified durability rates now have proper/balanced damage modifiers.
Reduced the maximum increased hunger and thirst rates for challenge modifiers.
Increased "Learn total skills" quest requirement for challenge mode slightly.
Additional stamina restoring items are now provided for no stamina regeneration challenge modifiers.
Revised some difficulty levels and chances for certain challenge modifiers for improved balance.

Modding

Added missing stat and statusEffect registration types.
The mod publishing tooltip now specifies when it will publish a new mod and when it will publish an update.
Fixed binds not showing up properly when hovering over button bar icons.
Fixed certain special items not getting the proper item damage modifier when using the OnItemDamage hook.
Added canCreate event for tile events.
Added canFaceDirections, canPerformSpecialAbilities, and canDespawn events for creatures.

Technical

Updated Wayward to TypeScript 3.8.2.

Mods

Debug Tools

Changes to whether a tile is tilled is now detected by terrain inspection.
Fixed the zoom level being overrided for players without Debug Tools permission. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed the zoom slider not updating as the zoom level is changed with binds. Now supports zooming in to 16x.

[ 2020-03-08 02:20:10 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.8.4 Released

We have a small patch ready to mostly fix up that auto saving issue. We were also able to squeeze in a few other things we were working on. More to come soon! Let us know about any other issues you spot!

Improvements

Where possible, the scheduled autosaves will now be combined with rest/sleep in order to be less disruptive.
Skeletal remains will now animate based on proximity instead of when facing them.
Improved client disconnection logic when a multiplayer game has closed.

Bug Fixes

Fixed auto saving happening during resting/sleeping, causing delays that sometimes lasted after the rest/sleep.
Fixed the "Close Container" action not working when using it from a quickslot hotkey.
Fixed the "inedible" and "poisoned" notes describing you drinking from a waterskin when drinking from water directly. (Thanks jettix!)
Fixed scrollbars appearing next to status effect icons when pixel font was disabled. (Thanks Sneed!)
Fixed an outdated wooden flooring item graphic.

Balance

Ash cement is no longer made with clay, but will require more ash and consume water fully.
All items now have a higher variety of weights, allowing slightly lower weight on all items. A very select few items have been raised in weight to compensate for this change.
Piles of ash can now weight up to 0.2.

[ 2020-01-05 01:15:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.8.3 Released

Hey all, Just a smaller release this time around. Even though it's smaller, it still has some great new features packed in. Here's a few important-ish things: Pass Trough Creatures You can now pass through weaker or flying creatures by disabling auto attack; however, they may attack you as you pass, leading to some more strategic escapes.
Improved Building Visuals The contrast was lacking between flooring, walls, and structures. We've boosted this a bit to make your abode a bit nicer looking.
Crafting Efficacy Introducing crafting efficacy. Starting at 20% crafting skill, you will begin to get a rating on each craft, letting you now how effective you are (using your combination of item and doodad qualities/tiers). The higher this value, the better chance at a higher quality and durability for your craft. You can read more about this in the help menu. The underlying system for this was already in place, it was just invisible to the player.
Auto-save Options Due to popular demand, you can now set the auto save interval based on turns or time. Auto saving will also no longer stop you in your tracks, disabling movement after, and should be much more painless.
Multiplayer Improvements The server browser will show all games except for private games. Friends-only games and games running in different versions will now be shown so you can switch versions or shoot over a friend request if you spot a game you want to join. Additionally, we have fixed an issue with multiplayer games and how player's are identified. You may run into issues with pre-existing multiplayer games because of this. The player data is not lost and we can help you out if you send us over the save and the Steam IDs (or Steam profiles) of the players in the game. We will correct the saves for you. Apologies for the issues!
Oh ya, and Happy New Year!

New

You can now pass/walk through smaller or flying creatures by disabling auto attack; however, they may attack you as you pass.
Crafts will now give a rating of how effective you are when crafting the item (for maximal quality/durability results) based on item/doodad qualities and item/doodad tiers.
Added an option to configure the autosave timer, and toggle between turns and time elapsed.
Added status warnings to stat tooltips (when hovering over stats).

Improvements

All multiplayer games will show now in the server browser, regardless of friend status or version differences except for private games.
Improved contrast of flooring versus walls (and all built structures) for all resource types for improved clarity.
Liquid containers can now drop or be crafted with the "potency" legendary type.
Autosave no longer stops movement.
Reduced the size of the non-pixel font slightly.
Fixed a few instances where item qualities were not specified in messages.
The last save time and save size are now viewable in the save button tooltip.

Bug Fixes

Fixed incorrect player identifiers being set when joining multiplayer games.
Fixed an incorrect warning message appearing for destroying plants from gathering. (Thanks Davadin!)
Fixed an issue where only the first consumed item in a craft would be used for tier bonus calculations.
Fixed terrain qualities not appearing until reloading the save game again.
Fixed a scrollbar appearing beside stats and attributes in several cases. (Thanks Sneed!)
Fixed containers changing legendary types when being consumed. (Thanks Dodging Rain!)
Fixed a bug where some doodads would count for double the bonus when using them in a craft.
Fixed flashing occurring when opening the Steam overlay while in-game.
Fixed the consumable message not highlighting bad versus good stat changes.
Fixed animal fat still counting as fuel, leading to 0 added decay when added to torches. (Thanks EatAtSardis!)
Corrected numerous pluralization issues.
Fixed health always being set to maximum if any other health stat option is applied.
Fixed there not being a way to configure your starting max health in custom game mode.
Fixed mod issues interrupt not listing which mods were required when joining a multiplayer game.
Fixed tile mapping issues with ash cement flooring.

Technical

Defaulted more cards to use DirectX9 that had graphic issues.

[ 2020-01-02 01:00:15 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.8.2 Released

Following the theme of big minor patches, we present beta 2.8.2, another big minor patch. In this release you'll see a lot of fixes and improvements, but also something a lot of people have been waiting for. Better networking! Hopefully the days are gone where you would need to do some router wizardry to host a Wayward game. We have implemented Steam networking support. This is all automatic, so you shouldn't have to worry about anything besides staying alive in-game.
And how about all that ash that has been building up from the campfires and water stills? Well, now with a bit of effort, you can turn it into ash cement to build walls and flooring. Reduce, reuse, and recycle!
This holiday season you can also stay cool with a new feature that warns you when attempting to sleep with a lit torch/candle, a long requested feature for the "Warn on Dangerous Actions" option.
Some other related changes to resting/sleeping include:

Increased effectiveness of resting or sleeping by fire sources or when using bedding items/doodads.
Sleeping will now mitigate hunger and thirst more effectively than just resting.

These are just a few examples of what's in store for this release. On another note, happy early holidays! Hope you get a game or two in!

New

Added support for Steam networking, allowing players to connect to and host multiplayer games where they were not able to before due to networking issues.
Added ash cement, crafted from all that leftover ash, to be used for walls and flooring.
Added a help article explaining the differences between resting and sleeping and other regenerative bonuses.

Improvements

If "Warn on Dangerous Actions" is enabled, players will now be warned when attempting to sleep with a lit fire source equipped.
Terrain can now spawn with differing qualities (like plants, trees, and other doodads do).
Consumption stat messages are now condensed into a single message.
Messages produced by dismantling and disassembling are now condensed/combined.
Improved performance of receiving items from actions, especially for any that returned multiple items (such as from dismantling, disassembling, gathering, decaying items, etc.).
Large numbers in the game are now broken up by locale-supported separators (such as commas or periods).
Added detail on how score is calculated in the "Challenge Mode" section within the "Game Modes" help article.
Drawn maps can now be dismantled.
Improved skill descriptions and help to include the fact that skill does impact quality of items gathered or harvested.
Sorting items by quality now sorts legendary types as well.
Blood is no longer spawned when the damage type is not piercing or slashing.
Added more information on the "Milestone Modifier" system within the "Milestones" help article.

Bug Fixes

Fixed quests not looking into containers for required items. (Thanks EatAtSardis!)
Fixed an error when loading saved games from the Steam Workshop.
Fixed an oversight that did not allow you to fish up aberrant mudskippers. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed the "Seafaring" milestone not unlocking until rejoining a saved game. (Thanks Caerold!)
Fixed drawn maps having negative and/or too low durability. (Thanks Zalpha!)
Fixed animal dung not counting as compost. (Thanks Davadin!)
Fixed creature tooltips returning an incorrect happiness level. (Thanks sol!)
Fixed custom game options initial strength applying more strength than intended.
Fixed stat modifiers applying more to health than intended. (Thanks bored_o_mir!)
Fixed multiple stats display issues on smaller resolutions & ui scales.
Fixed a brief screen flash when loading into the game. (Thanks Zalpha!)
Fixed servers sometimes showing incorrect regions in the server browser.
Fixed the message filter name input not being correct when viewing subsequent filters.
Fixed attempting to soothe burn injury messages appearing on permanent burning pain.
Fixed an issue where not moving your cursor when crafting/dismantling would not always re-highlight required items in the craft/dismantle. (Thanks blay.paul!)
Potentially fixed issues with music switching randomly.
Fixed a bug where creatures that turned aberrant would not regenerate their loot to match. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed dismantling and disassembling saying all items were destroyed when some in fact were returned.
Fixed the "Corpse" note not displaying the creature's name.
Fixed the protected "P" visual not updating on quickslots when enabling/disabling protected options.
Fixed performance issues on certain distributions of Linux.
Fixed a grammar issue where you "cooked cooked" food items. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed the messages dialog toggle not working correctly if the messages component was hidden.

Balance

Increased effectiveness of resting or sleeping by fire sources or when using bedding items/doodads.
Sleeping will now mitigate hunger and thirst more effectively than just resting.
You can now perform actions on rafts that normally would have counted as "in water" or "swimming", disabling you from performing them.
You can no longer pet a creature indefinitely. It will reject your advances after a certain happiness and petting threshold is met.
Increased the durability of the raft and decreased items required to craft it (also reducing its weight slightly).
Reduced reputation gain from petting.
Reduced raw clay (and non-clay brick items) weights significantly.
Raw clay bricks now require two raw clay to craft.

Modding

Fixed `Input.setMaxLength`. (Thanks Amax!)
Removed named variables present in language files to make it easier for translators.

Technical

Added a `disableGpuDriverBugWorkarounds` launch option for debugging purposes.
Full conversion/version history is now saved in each game save.

[ 2019-12-18 05:10:15 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.8.1 Released

Luckily, in the last major release, we didn't have many major issues to sort out, allowing us to focus on adding more content and smoothing out some important areas of the game for this release. We focused on performance for sure, but we made sure to improve on plenty of lacking areas as well including fishing, reinforcing, and other UI/UX improvements. I encourage you to check all the new things out! While this is a sizable release, we still have more to work on in the 2.8.x series of patches. There's still a few more things to smooth out. Continue to give us feedback on the game! Make sure to check out our Discord if you haven't yet, or shoot me a friend request on Steam

New

You can now craft items through the item menu (or assign it as the default action of a quickslot).

Added chopped fish which can be cooked or used as fishing bait.

Added a tooltip for your own character with your stats as additional information.

Improvements

Improved the visibility of selected items versus non-selected items in the inventory and crafting windows on hover states.

Running the Starter Quest mod will now always spawn the player in the northern part of the map (outside of the desert).
Using bait now has a higher chance of stirring up creatures when casting into empty water.
You can now gather badderlocks (among other items) from seawater regardless of skill level (was previously disabled over 100% skill).
Items can now decay into multiple items (in the case of larger meat, fruits or vegetables).
Consuming most raw or cooked fish now return bone fragments.
You can now cancel when attempting to sync/download a multiplayer world.
Fixed performance issues to do with stats on creatures and player movement.
Improved performance and reduced latency of game rendering.
Improved performance of saving games, speeding up the saving process.
Improved idle CPU usage and general performance of the game.
Improved relative performance when sleeping/resting mostly by staggering growth cycles (so they don't all happen together, causing slow turns/long sleeps).
The "Disable UI Animations" option has been renamed to "Disable UI Effects" and will feature even more optimizations for lower-end hardware and devices.
You can no longer attempt to open disabled dialogs.
Pressing escape in an input now clears the input to the previous text rather than blurring the input.
Moving in shallow water and snow will now attempt to soothe burn injuries, but at a reduced chance and will notify the player on attempts.
New UI static components (stats, messages, the menu bar) can now be hidden individually. Added subtle buttons for putting them back or moving them.
Fruit containing seeds and fish/meat containing bone fragments will now also decay with its seeds/bones. Some items have had modified weights due to this change.
Fish can now be dismantled into chopped fish and bone fragments.
Multiplayer games are now set to "Open to Anyone" by default.
Added an "x" button to clear filter inputs in the new UI.
The taming and storage quests within the Starter Quest have been moved to the very end.

Bug Fixes

Fixed merchants not receiving new stock after reloading a saved game. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed dismantling requirements not being protectable. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed a bug that did not allow new merchants to spawn if you had killed all of them previously. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed a bug where bare trees could have unlimited resources (yikes). (Thanks Grub!)
Fixed multiple multiplayer desyncs relating to merchant NPCs.
Fixed a memory leak in challenge mode causing extreme lag.
Fixed the map dialog remaining open even when the tattered map was far away from the player.
Fixed game failing to launch on Debian due to permission issues.
Fixed the message log not appearing the same when set to appear on the top of the screen.
Fixed being able to stir up non-cave creatures within cave water.
Fixed lava tiles being a suitable spawn point.
Fixed dedicated servers starting as friends-only even though open to anyone was checked by default.
Fixed releasing creatures not preserving their happiness so that they could be tamed and released repeatedly.
Fixed music playlist being incorrect when in-game with the menu open. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed custom image paths for mod registrations not working. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed the "Abnormalizer" milestone modifier not applying its rules to other milestones that edited creatures in some way. (Thanks lovesthesoundof!)
Fixed treasure being blocked in cases where it shouldn't be. (Thanks Zillvr!)
Fixed not being able to clear blood in water. (Thanks Tkenny123!)
Fixed impassable tiles being able to be covered with ash. (Thanks Stelyar!)

Balance

Reinforcement limits now take into account weight and quality bonuses (more accurately) and will increase in durability the lower the item's durability is (instead of only 10-20 durability per reinforcement).
The maximum reinforcement value is now a percentage value based on the item's maximum durability instead of a static value for all items (+125), increasing maximum reinforcement on most items.
Increased plant growth time across most plants, but more significantly on trees.
You are no longer able to trade back items to merchants that they traded you.
Reduced fishing net durability slightly.
Bait is now destroyed when using it to catch a fish.
Reeling up fish (and other items) now costs stamina based on the item or fish weight.
Reduced the amount of stamina needed when rafting while overburdened, making it much more efficient than walking with heavy loads.
Reduced the amount of stamina needed to jump.
Reduced difficulty of crafting wooden doors and wooden chests.
Sundials will now have much more durability for normal use.

Modding

returnOnUse is now returnOnUseAndDecay which is used for decaying items and can now return exact items used to create the item with the new returnFromDisassembly property.
decaysInto now accepts multiple items as an array.
The wayward +mod command now supports initializing the mod with a different Typescript file name using +classFile.

Technical

Some older GPUs are now forced to DirectX9 rendering by default. This will fix some players issues with not being able to see their character and other rendering bugs due to hardware/driver compatibility and age.
Wayward has been upgraded to TypeScript 3.7.2.

[ 2019-11-24 02:01:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey all, Last week, I missed the normal release stream due to a pretty bad cold. I'm mostly healed up now and ready to do some release celebrations! Check out the stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/drathy The stream will be a bit different this time. We'll be working on a custom map, hopefully with some helpful hands of anybody that wants to join in. If you just want to hang out for the giveaways, that's cool too! Yes, we will be doing the normal game giveaways during the stream. Wayward is still on sale for a bit, so snag it for cheap while you can. Stay tuned for more updates this weekend on beta 2.8.1.

[ 2019-11-02 00:21:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Wayward Beta 2.8 Odds Ends Released

Sorry about that wait! The next major Wayward update is finally upon us! To help celebrate the release, Wayward is -25% off for the next 7 days. This release we focused on many improvements and a new unlockable system for added replayability. There's not really a theme here to speak of, hence the naming of "odds & ends". Some of the stand-out additions include:

Introducing "Milestone Modifiers", a new form of unlockables. Toggle-able modifiers are granted upon the completion of milestones (in-game achievements).
Added a new "refinement" mechanic to reduce item weight at the cost of durability using special refinement tools.
Three new creatures added, one with a unique mechanic and use in the late-game. SECRETS!
Stills will no longer require containers when crafting. You will now be able to attach/detach the container (with added visuals) to the still and gather water or drink from directly.
Added scale armor, crafted from reptile skin using the leatherworking skill.
Over 30 new items and crafts added with three new legendary properties.

The preview video shows a few more notable features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTLohN_Opz8 Our plan with the upcoming 2.8.x series of patches is to continue to improve these small and large areas of the game, smoothing everything out to make way for something big with 2.9. We aren't entirely sure what we want to focus on quite yet, but there's a few things on our short list based on what players voted for on the new feature voting page. Make sure you vote on what you would like to see in the game next! We're in it for the long haul, and not in Valve's Artifact version of "the long haul". Thanks for sticking around! On with the mega changelog:

New

Added a "Milestone Modifier" system for a new form of unlockables. Toggle-able modifiers are granted upon the completion of milestones.
Added the rest of the environmental variations to all tiles, including animated lava variations.
New flat ground terrain has been added for rocks and sandstone.
Added animal waste to be used as compost. Animal waste production is increased as animals are fed.
Added a new magical creature that only spawns at positive reputation that unlocks a new way to improve and enhance items.
Added the golden sextant, a new common treasure that will help you reveal your coordinates.
There are now two new fish types for added variety and to offset shark spawning.
Added a new "refinement" mechanic to reduce item weight at the cost of durability using new metal refinement tools.
Added scale armor, crafted from reptile skin using the leatherworking skill.
Added new legendary properties for increased decay amounts (hoarding), increased preservation rates (preservation), and item damage reduction (endurance).
Added new blades of grass resource, reducing the prominence of grass seeds when digging grass.
You can now pet tamed creatures to increase their happiness and provide bonus effects to certain creatures.
Added a new "Melee" action which can be used from a quickslot or from the item/action menu to be used in conjunction with the new "Auto Attack" option or for specific item use.
Added support for colored lights (doodads, creatures, corpses, and tile events).
Added Steam Rich Presence to Wayward which will share your current game status to your Steam friends.
Added doodad tiers so certain doodads will provide better crafting results, making certain categories better including some clay and metal-based doodads.
Added a connection testing feature to check if players are able to connect to your server or game.
Added tallow and tallow candles, a new cooking and illumination resource.
Added two new milestones for completing tasks in the challenge mode.
Added a wooden shield, an upgraded form of the bark shield.
Added an option to disable UI animations for less GPU/CPU usage and better performance on older hardware and devices without discrete GPUs.
Added dried saguaro cactus ribs, used for kindling and fuel.
Reputation logging messages have been added, but are filtered off by default.
Added a cooked form of Joshua tree flowers, a new cooking recipe.
Added a help article explaining reputation.
Added a help article on game modes and difficulty.
Added ability to change timeouts through networking options.
Added message of the day functionality for dedicated servers.
Added ability to send commands to dedicated servers via SSH.
You can now use a rope to test the depth and water type of a well.
Added a couple new books.
Added a developer button for unlocking all milestones.
Added a new "Save Game" mod category.

Improvements

All previous milestone benefits (increased starting stats) have been removed in favor of the new "Milestone Modifier" system, enabling a truer roguelike experience if desired, or unique bonuses if not.
Stills will no longer require containers when crafting. You will now be able to attach/detach the container (with added visuals) to the still and gather water or drink from directly.
Only the milestones available to be unlocked in the current game mode are now displayed in the milestones dialog. Script mods now disable milestones by default. Warnings are shown when milestones can't currently be unlocked.
"Dead" trees are now referred to as "bare" trees and may regrow over long periods of time.
The desert now spawns a different set of desert-y items on map generation.
The maximum height of messages (in non-windowed mode) now scales based on your resolution.
Shields now have an attack value and damage type.
Piles of ash produced by burning doodads will now be limited to smaller stacks and can spread to adjacent tiles. (Thanks BangkokPost!)
Fire can now spread to some corpses and will decay (be destroyed) faster when on fire.
Fixed up some confusing wording in item descriptions regarding cordage.
The Starter Quest time commitment and complexity has been reduced due to water still changes.
You will now receive a message when parrying an attack, mitigating extra damage on top of the parrying defense bonus.
Replaced the default "A save game" description when uploading save files to the Workshop with game and player stats.
Walk to tile now allows paths through tamed creatures.
Added an "Eternal Day" button to the custom game options to prevent future misunderstandings about how it should be configured. (Thanks 0d1!)
The Starter Quest is now disabled in challenge mode.
Mudskippers will now be fishable and have a unique corpse item for cooking and eating.
Added turn and score counters to rich presence (Steam and Discord).
Allowed players to ignite torches when facing another player with a lit torch equipped.
Igniting a torch with a torch will no longer require kindling or fuel.
Provided more help/information on the "Unable to Join Game" message when failing to connect to multiplayer games.
Plants will no longer grow when players, creatures or NPCs are on top of them or if they are on fire. (Thanks Cryomantic Cultist!)
Doodad containers (chests) can now receive the legendary weight capacity property.
Acid will now damage items and corpses that are in it.
Reduced possible confusion regarding tame status of creatures.
The fuel amount on lit doodads and desalination status on water stills will now show without "see more" enabled for tooltips.
Added more visual feedback when hovering over disabled inputs and selections within the UI.
Added a custom game option to choose between using global recipe unlocks for a save, having all recipes unlocked, or none.
Added open and close container actions for chests placed on the ground.
Improved handling of pouring seawater into a well so that the well is no longer permanently seawater afterwards in certain instances.
Tumbling tumbleweeds will now move on top of tiles with other tile events like fire.
Added an option for changing the world tooltip delay, for less flickering and better performance.
Fires will now properly burn other tile events like tumbling tumbleweeds, waste, and blood.
Blood carving has been replaced with blood clearing via pouring, digging, tilling, and more.
Equipping held items with the keybind now cycles which hand to equip to, rather than always equipping to the right hand.
Acid is now a colored light source and flammable.
Added descriptions to skill tooltips that mention the effectiveness of the skill on repair, reinforce, transmogrify, refine, and preserve actions.
Updated the inaccurate wording of many action descriptions.
Added bonus durability to items based on weight (so heavier things are generally a bit more durable). This can intentionally be done through crafting for maximizing bonuses.
Fire elementals no longer trample plants.
Fixed an oversight that didn't account for doodad quality when crafting using fire sources such as campfires, kilns, etc.
Protected items now have a visual "P" beside their graphic.
Scorpion and spider meat are now considered "meat" for grouping.
Improved dropdown filtering. It will now match individual words in addition to exact string matching.
Pond and garden templates will no longer spawn close to shorelines.
Added a way to filter mods in the mods menu, switched to use a single sort row for all mod types.

Bug Fixes

Fixed all UI elements leaking memory. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed an incorrect defense bonus applied from parrying that resulting in more damage in some instances. (Thanks jettix!)
Fixed large creatures appearing under players and tall doodads in WebGL 1 mode and other inconsistencies in WebGL 2 mode.
Fixed torches still gaining skill and damaging fuel when attempting to add fuel when not possible among other issues. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed incorrect max weight conversion on older saves. (Thanks Scapestoat!)
Fixed many skill checks regarding the chemistry skill including improper crafting reputation displays. (Thanks sechsauge!)
Corrected some issues regarding placing flammable items over lit doodad (campfires) producing much more fuel than they should have. (Thanks BangkokPost!)
Fixed friend games not displaying as friend games in the server browser.
Fixed lighting from creatures lagging behind them when players moved.
Fixed the message dialog showing inapplicable context menu options.
Fixed the throwing skill not providing bonus range for slings. (Thanks Grub!)
Fixed some items not getting the proper randomized durability when crafted or found.
Fixed a reduction in weapon durability when not meeting all the requirements to fire (like bow and arrows). (Thanks sechsauge!)
Fixed instances where WebGL would fallback to version 1 unexpectedly.
Fixed light sources "flickering" during certain times of day.
Fixed the message dialog appearing differently based on which quadrant it was in when opened.
Fixed edit filter checkboxes not working when first clicking each filter.
Fixed carried torches not illuminating when first joining a multiplayer game.
Fixed the game not loading in rare instances with old items requiring an update. (Thanks Shiranai!)
Fixed the messages window appearing wonky when using smaller resolutions.
Fixed modded doodad requirements not showing up properly within crafting tooltips. (Thanks Lovefield!)
Fixed a bug where hitched creatures could despawn and leave hitching posts unusable. (Thanks Zillvr!)
Fixed missing functionality when doodads could cause status effects, but your equipment protected you from it.
Fixed scores having decimal places based on custom game settings.
Fixed a bug where built doodads did not retain their disassembly information when picking them back up into item form.
Fixed some cases where it was possible to unselect all options from a choice list.
Fixed iron spears and hammers not returning the pole item used in crafting when disassembling them.
Fixed older saves not upgrading max weight limits. (Thanks MadMarcAgain!)
Fixed Starter Quest (and any other unpublished mods) appearing as "undefined" in the pause menu mods list.
Fixed the "Protect Crafting Items for Containers" only working when both it and "Protect Crafting Items" was checked. (Thanks terribleperson!)
Fixed an error appearing when hovering over certain tiles that had been modified through digging in rare cases. (Thanks Tarin!)
Fixed incorrect weight calculation after travelling to a new island. (Thanks Tkenny123!)
Fixed wells not updating their water status when underground conditions had changed. (Thanks Demasis!)
Fixed smother fire replacing impassable terrain. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed legendary inheritance on consumables producing items that should have not been possible (like negative weight seeds). (Thanks Obbe C!)
Fixed carried torches not de-illuminating when leaving a multiplayer game.
Fixed ranged weapons not showing an "item may break" confirmation on use.
Fixed merchants stocking items that shouldn't have been tradable. (Thanks Cryomantic Cultist!)
Fixed eating aloe vera leaves functioning the same as "applying" them to soothe burn injuries.
Fixed quality not affecting decay levels of items properly.
Fixed tile variations showing up over tilled visuals.
Fixed starting a new game from the multiplayer menu not selecting proper defaults. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed the messages window having no spacing between the edge of screen when positioned on the right.
Fixed naturally generated plants and doodads not receiving a durability bonus from their quality or weight.
Fixed transparency on sprites not working correctly while flying things are around.
Fixed item groups not displaying the proper grammar or "item" article in messages/requirements.
Fixed lowered stamina movement affecting ghost speed.
Fixed an exploit that allowed players to gather multiple treasures under certain circumstances. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
Fixed Creation Time & Turn Count save sorts not working in the Load Game Menu.
Fixed serverside mods installed off of dedicated-server mode being enabled internally by default.
Fixed not being able to scroll in the requirements section within the Quests dialog.
Fixed Discord integration not working for 32-bit windows clients.
Fixed protected items now showing they were protected while in container and not updating when equipment/quickslots were changed.
Fixed the private multiplayer option not functioning correctly when re-opening a previous game or server. (Thanks 0d1!)
Fixed a memory leak when playing a game after a previous game was loaded.
Fixed visual glitches when tilling near lava.
Fixed the mod list in the pause menu not displaying mod states correctly.
Fixed initial time not being imported when loading custom game options. (Thanks 0d1!)
Fixed the flintlock pistol saying you didn't have ammunition to fire it when missing black powder.
Fixed being able to select and use some disabled buttons with keyboard controls.
Removed the ability for status effects to deal 0 damage to you based on custom game settings.

Balance

Most items that previously required liquid but did not consume it will now consume a full container of water.
Aberrant creatures now have a higher chance of dropping non-guaranteed items and will drop double the amount of certain grouped items.
Items in fire will now be damaged much faster.
Increased possible amount of clay from each tile slightly.
Reduced Acid Spitters resistance to blunt damage slightly.
Reduced aberrant base defense scaling and maximum (capped) values.
Item decay time has been quadrupled in challenge mode so more item quests are realistic and fun.
Increased the chances at returning quality items from dismantling based on skill.
Removed some items that were too tedious to gather for challenge mode.
Players will no longer share crafting recipes in multiplayer games.
Trees and plants now have more durability, making them slower to burn in some cases, especially when matured.
Reduced transmogrification difficulty slightly.
Transmogrification no longer keeps exact maximum durability amount, but reduces it slightly based on how much it is over the expected amount and no longer fully repairs items.
Wells built in the caves will no longer be an infinite water source (they will refill overtime similar to building them above ground).
Decreased the difficulty of repairing items slightly.
Increased the difficulty of crafting advanced and expert recipes slightly.
Increased weight capacity (storage) legendaries will now scale higher based on their default capacity.
Increased the preservation effect slightly across all containers, but copper is now the highest tier due its antimicrobial and thermal properties.
Cod are no longer considered for killing quests for the challenge mode.
Increased time required to desalinate water in stills slightly to promote usage for wells/solar stills and alternate water gathering methods.
Reduced default amount of plant-life in the desert slightly on map generation.
Reduced plant growth time slightly.
Decreased plant regeneration chances slightly.
All types of trees can now start as seedling or bare on world generation.

Technical

Improved performance significantly on integrated GPU configurations and other low-end GPUs.
Updated Wayward to use Electron 6.
Updated Wayward to use TypeScript 3.6.3.
Multiplayer games started on development branch will no longer keep sync checks enabled when moving to a stable branch.
You will now be able to save and quit the game if the GL context does not recover.
Blood and acid are now tile events instead of corpses and doodads respectively.
Removed the required UiApi/IGameScreenApi parameters from NewUi classes.
Iterator chaining has been replaced with a new @wayward/goodstream module & API for increased speed.
Converted interrupts to use an interrupt ID system, with its own dictionary. Mods can register their own interrupts.

Modding

Added Wayward.exe commands for creating and updating mods, for examples see the updated Modding Guide.
The Wayward TypeScript declaration files, or "types", have been moved to a new repository and a node module @wayward/types.
Mods that have scripts can no longer provide a list of compatible minor versions, and will instead only work with a single version declared in the waywardVersion property of the mod.json file.
Fixed uncountables incorrectly schema'd as uncountableRules.
Removed the blockDig doodad property and replaced its functionality with the LitStructure doodad group.
Added TileUpdateType argument to the onTileUpdate hook.
Mods that don't provide scripts (only JSON additions) no longer need to provide a list of compatible versions.
Added a new @Inject decorator for injecting code into and manipulating any method across the codebase.
multiplayerClientside and multiplayerCompatible have been combined into multiplayer, accepting clientside, compatible, and serverside.
Added modding support for doodad groups.

Mods

TARS

Fixed errors when running with the Troposphere mod enabled.
Fixed attempting to dismantle/craft items while in water.
Notes are now disabled when running TARS.
It will only eat food that could cause poison if it's an emergency.
Pathfinding calculation time has been reduced.
Fixed looking for build tile freezing the game completely in some cases.
Prioritize building items when possible; it will no longer walk around with heavy items in the inventory while trying to complete other objectives.
Add a visual overlay over tiles to show how it sees the world.
Fixed it taking long paths through oceans only to die by running out of stamina while swimming. It will now rest before taking a long swim.
It will now drink from water sources on the ground when it's thirsty, has high health, and it's far away from the water still in the base.
Improved water still logic. It will refill and light water stills after drinking water from it.
Ensures the base is not built that far away from rocks.
Improved the use of chests and inventory space. It knows how to use chests when crafting items.
It now runs away from creatures when its health or stamina is low.
It now acquires and equips a shield.
It now chooses the best weapon when attacking/defending against creatures, taking damage types into account.
It now knows how to acquire items by dismantling others.
It now gathers from the "easiest" doodad/terrain when acquiring items. The easiest resource to gather from might not be the closest. It depends on what's in the path between the player and the resource.
Improved the objective planner. It's now smarter when executing objectives.

Balancing Tools

You can now freeze NPCs.

Troposphere

Fixed glass bottles no longer having the gather rainbow action.
Added descriptions for creatures, doodads, and improved other descriptions.

Debug Tools

Improved performance when teleporting or inspecting tiles while zoomed out.
Added a keybind for toggling full visibility (both fog & lighting).
Added the ability to change the brush size for Tile Paint.
Item & doodad dropdowns can now be filtered by item & doodad groups. A list of valid, clickable groups will be displayed to the side.
Added support for Doodads, Corpses, and Players in the Selection panel.
Added a way to filter selections by specific type.
Added the ability to teleport a player to the nearest selection match.

[ 2019-10-26 17:40:15 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.8 Status Update

Hey all, So, whats the status on beta 2.8? We have been working on it, although admittedly a bit slower than normal. According to our FAQ statement on releases, we should have dropped a new major release around this time. Unfortunately, some of the things we planned on (redesigned crafting) have proved to take much longer than anticipated. So, instead of making this major take even longer, we switched tracks and instead focused on other areas. This delay has been compounded a bit due to the birth of my daughter. Im having a lot less free time than normal as you would expect. Wayward is a part-time endeavor for all of us, so the timing of major releases can be a bit variable. That being said, we are still making changes and additions on a day to day basis, and our work is always available for review and play via the development branch. We are now up to 141 changes, improvements, additions, and fixes. If thats something you are interested in, make sure to check out the details on how to play it by checking out the Changing Betas/Branches for Wayward guide. I would expect us to take another 1-2 months to get beta 2.8 released and tested. Thank you all for the testing you have done so far, and to the few that were affected, RIP those save games in that last major bug. Apologies! On to the new reveals for beta 2.8:

Milestone Modifiers

We have replaced all previous meta-progression from milestones with a brand new system. Previously, milestones would provide bonus items and stats when starting new games. While some liked this, many wanted the game to remain the same difficulty when starting. Enter milestone modifiers! With each milestone you unlock, you can tailor your game with unique scenarios and bonuses. This of course is now optional instead of bonuses being forced on subsequent playthroughs. It also adds a little bit more reason for grinding out those tough milestones.

Colored Lighting

Youll find a few new sources of colored lighting in 2.8, including a quite unique creature.

Sandstone and Rock Ground

A perfect accompaniment to the mountain ranges in the game, providing more visual appeal and resources.

If you missed the last reveals we did on beta 2.8, make sure to check them out on the Happy (Late) Wayward Day! post. Stay tuned!

[ 2019-08-04 22:50:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

Happy (Late) Wayward Day!

Happy Wayward Day! Okay, well, not quite. Due to some scheduling conflicts, we are a "few" days from April 22nd. For the 3rd year of Wayward on Steam, we are offering our best sale yet at -30% off for the next 24 hours on Steam or through the widget on our website. https://store.steampowered.com/app/379210/Wayward/ We are still hard at work on beta 2.8, but we thought we would spoil a few upcoming features and announce a new feature voting page on our website.

Feature Voting

In the past, we have shared interactive polls (using thepoll.ly service) for players to share what they would like to see next in version of Wayward. Unfortunately using this service resulted in some vote manipulation, dodgy submission, and less than ideal ordering and sorting features. Check out the new feature voting page here: http://www.waywardgame.com/vote

We ensured the most popular features are available for voting since submissions are no longer available through our new feature voting page. We aren't removing the ability suggest new features of course, rather just "approving" them on our end before listing them. Please share your suggestions via our forums, social media, or chat as per usual. Please also check out or Trello to see a full listing of submitted ideas and future plans:https://trello.com/b/PWX1Hpjn/wayward-todo

Water Still Changes

Stills will no longer require containers to craft them, meaning, if you want, you can use a single container for desalinating water. You can now spot visually exactly what container is attached to each and their fullness state (in the case of glass bottles and waterskins).

You can now attach and detach containers as you want as well as drink directly from the still.

Item Refinement and Weight Bonuses

A large part of the mid-to-late game of Wayward is managing item weight and starting to think about crafting items using the lowest weight components. While this is an intentional system for players to min/max, we wanted to introduce another strategy. Crafted items with higher weights will now provide bonus max durability. Additionally, a new system called "refinement" has been implemented through the use of new metal "refinement tools", which will allow you refine most items, reducing their overall weight at the cost of some maximum durability (which can still be increased through reinforcement). With all these new systems, players can strategize which they want to focus on: weight or durability, or even somewhere in the middle. This image shows weight and durability before/after refining and how many refines were used (not all are maxed out in the example). The maximum refinement depends on the item and at what weight it started at.

And of course, you can still reinforce the item's durability back to optimal values with a lot of glue!

Here's a showcase of how weight can now affect maximum durability:

Scale Armor

Leatherworkers rejoice! You can now work with more than hides and look extra stylish while maintaining quite competent defense values - comparable to copper or wrought iron, but a lot less heavy and durable.

These features and more are of course available to test and try out on the development branch. You can find more information on how to do this here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=721479594 Stay tuned for more reveals and updates!

[ 2019-05-18 17:15:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

A Step Backwards (April Fools')

The following is an April Fools' announcement. Hello all, Coming at you today with some great news for certain players. The recent state of our reviews makes it clear to us that Wayward is attracting far too many players that are not familiar with traditional challenging, turn-based roguelike games with grid-based movement. We never anticipated more casual players finding the game. No, Wayward is not like Stardew Valley! It has led to a lot of frustration and confusion on both our parts and the players who subsequently refund the game, after leaving a negative review of course. Because of this, we are taking a step back and re-focusing our efforts to make a game that tailors only to true hardcore gamers. Gamers that dont need fancy graphics or free movement to be satisfied. Wayward is moving to ASCII! Heres a preview of what is to come.
One of our developers has also been investing a large amount of time into a VR port, all done in ASCII of course. This will be one way we can combat all the UI issues the game has. Stay tuned for more (real) updates!

[ 2019-04-01 07:00:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.7.4 Released

With this update, the beta 2.7.x series should be concluded. Much like our last update, we focused on squashing bugs, but also balancing, refining some systems and improving the mechanical depth of the game. This time around, we took a look at crafting and deepened the impact of several factors including required doodad quality (which was largely unimportant previously) as well as adding "tiers" to required tools, making it so better tools could produce better quality items. New sorting options will also help to maximize crafting benefits. Get those legendary furnaces and iron hammers out! Some other stand-out changes include:

Added custom game modifiers for individually disabling certain creatures and/or aberrant spawns.
Different types of chests and containers now have different preservation levels for decaying items inside.
Player movement and actions will begin to slow as stamina decreases past 15 stamina for visual feedback before exhaustion damage occurs.
You can now sort items by "best for crafting requirements" or "best for crafting consumables".
Item pick-ups no longer delay movement based on the amount of items picked up. Item notifications are now sped up to match the amount.
Improved scared creature AI so they will attempt to move away from attacking players on occasion and pathfind more intelligently.

You can take a look at some of the preview media for this update shared in the last update post. After this update, we will begin working on the next major update (provided there are no major issues). Our hope with beta 2.8 is to take a look at some systems and areas of the game that are getting a bit long in the tooth. This includes an overhaul to the inventory and crafting interface as well as improving the performance of the game (the two are closely linked). We will of course be adding lots of new content and improvements as well, picking some of the things suggested based on the wishlist discussions and poll.

New

Higher tiered tools and items now produce better quality results when crafting (for example, an iron hammer versus a stone hammer).
Added custom game modifiers for individually disabling certain creatures and/or aberrant spawns.
Different types of chests and containers now have different preservation levels for decaying items inside.
The quality of required doodads (furnaces, kilns, etc.) will now provide bonuses to crafted item quality.
Games won or lost after this update will be replayable (same seed, same options) via their highscores.
Introduced a new terrain variety system for a select few tiles to start with for increased visual differentiation.
You can now configure your starting skills and skill gain multipliers globally in the custom game options.
Fire elementals now spawn when causing fire to overflow through stoking or other means at lower reputation levels.

Improvements

Player movement and actions will begin to slow as stamina decreases past 15 stamina for visual feedback before exhaustion damage occurs.
You can now sort items by "best for crafting requirements" or "best for crafting consumables" instead of the previous best sorting merging the two, giving poor results.
Open fires will now visually match their burning stage and fuel level.
Certain skills will now provide consumable bonuses for edible items such as the cooking skill for cooked foods much like the previous bonuses for botany for fruit/vegetables.
Adjacent items will now fully unlock crafting recipes instead of just allowing them to be crafted.
Added difficulty, mods, PVP, and friends icons to the pause menu.
Pressing the "enter" bind in dropdown components will now select the first entry in the list.
Hitting creatures or other players with torches in water will now extinguish them.
Item and stat notifications now follow the players and creatures.
You can now use the up & down arrow keys to navigate through your sent chat messages, in order to resend text or commands.
Improved scared creature AI so they will attempt to move away from attacking players on occasion and pathfind more intelligently.
Slimes can now on occasion combine into a jelly cube.
You can now import and export "Custom Mode" game options.
When you are not able to cause any damage to a creature, an immune notifier will now show on each hit.
Item pick-ups no longer delay movement based on the amount of items picked up. Item notifications are now sped up to match the amount.
You can now set the seed for challenge games (not daily).
Milestones will now only unlock within hardcore and challenge modes.
You can now stoke fire elementals to heal them.
You will now be able to catch fish adjacent to tiles from where your line was cast to.
Increased difference in color between miss messages/notifiers versus exceptional items and stat message/notifiers versus legendary items.
You can now blacklist types of messages in a message filter.

Bug Fixes

Fixed swapping equipment in hands not working properly. (Thanks rifticles!)
Fixed the "enter" bind unfocusing the selected button.
Fixed the left & right arrow keys not working in text inputs.
Fixed being able to repair trees with hammers.
Fixed being able to transmogrify magical essence with itself. (Thanks Rofldong!)
Fixed tentacles not being considered raw meat and worm meat not being considered meat.
Fixed sleeping/resting removing hooded equipment on your character.
Fixed the appearance of a few UI components in Screenshot Mode: tooltips, the pause button (in multiplayer), and the menu bar.
Fixed keyboard support not working on dropdown components in menus.
Fixed notifier sometimes not fading out items and numbers properly.
Fixed container dialog titles not being updated when removing a rename.
Fixed an error when loading a game that had a disabled mod's quest requirement pinned.
Fixed a bug where players would gain extra stat values when equipped with legendary stat-increasing equipment. (Thanks sechsauge!)
Fixed log files getting very large when joining multiplayer servers.
Fixed black screen and out of memory issues when joining large servers.
Fixed an issue that caused the global save data to import incorrectly. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed an issue that could cause the game to only partially load due to corrupt global save data. (Thanks Nandalee!)
Fixed blurring the chat input sometimes sending the message.
Fixed previously tamed creatures not attacking the player while being hitched if they previously were attempting to attack another creature. (Thanks sechsauge!)
Fixed language setting being reset when closing from in-game.
Fixed a issue that did not update the name of a container when transmogrifying it. (Thanks sechsauge!)
Fixed modded images not displaying on UI elements on macOS.
Fixed item notifiers not fading out properly or showing all items that were picked up.
NPCs will no longer hurt themselves by walking into dangerous things.
Prevented hangs due to Steam Workshop issues when starting the game. (Thanks Matthew Cline!)

Balance

Missing in combat will now have less of a chance to gain skill.
Some creatures are now harder to hit based on what tile they are on including fish in water.
Slightly reduced the benefit of using increased quality items affecting crafted item quality (due to other changes that benefit crafts).
Decreased the effectiveness of stoking fire and reduced fire starting fuel levels slightly.
Decreased odds of increasing metabolism through skill use.
As aberrant creatures scale with players, the quality of their loot and carved resources are now increased as well.
Decreased the weight of coal and increased its fuel potential and trading worth.
Trampling plants now has a rare chance to spawn claw worms (this includes both players and other creatures).
Reduced base aberrant defense and increased effectiveness of individual resistances and vulnerabilities.
You will no longer take double damage and "work yourself into exhausting" when taking damage from starving/dehydration at low stamina values.
Increased the damage produced by stepping in lava.
Decreased the amount of ash dropped from lit torches.
Pineapples will no longer provide any health benefits when consuming them.
Slightly decreased effectiveness of botany/mycology skills affecting consumable items.

Modding

Added the hook ShouldCraft for cancelling crafts.
Added the hook OnInspectionSection for tweaking tile inspections in tooltips.
Allowed providesLight to function without providesFire.

Mods

Debug Tools

Fixed desyncs when using the kill action on players.

Technical

Performance improvements when loading games.

Spanish please...

[ 2019-03-10 00:25:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.7.4 Preview

Hey all, Instead of our normal process of beginning work on the next major update, along with the last update (beta 2.7.3), and the upcoming beta 2.7.4, we wanted to try to push out more substantial changes, much quicker than normal. So, along with the last "minor" update, this one will also be quite large for a "minor" release, if you can even call it that. The following is a preview of what to expect so far. You can try all of these changes for yourself by using the development branch. More on how to do that here:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=721479594 As always, please let us know if you have any suggestions or issues with the upcoming changes. If you want to suggest future additions and improvements, please check out our beta 2.8 wishlist here:https://steamcommunity.com/app/379210/discussions/0/3300476731146746052/ Beta 2.7.4 should be releasing sometime in the next couple weeks!

Added Crafting Depth

Higher tiered tools and items now produce better quality results when crafting (for example, an iron hammer versus a stone hammer).
The quality of required doodads (furnaces, kilns, etc.) will now provide bonuses to crafted item quality.
Slightly reduced the benefit of using increased quality items affecting crafted item quality (due to other changes that benefit crafts).

Improved Creature AI

Improved scared creature AI so they will attempt to move away from attacking players on occasion and pathfind more intelligently.

Improved Stamina Feedback

Player movement and actions will begin to slow as stamina decreases past 15 stamina for visual feedback before exhaustion damage occurs.

Export/Import Custom Game Options

You can now import and export "Custom Mode" game options.

Improved Pause Screen

Added difficulty, mods, PVP, and friends icons to the pause menu.

Aberrant Balancing

Reduced base aberrant defense and increased effectiveness of individual resistances and vulnerabilities.
As aberrant creatures scale with players, the quality of their loot and carved resources are now increased as well.

Old damage:

This is kind of an extreme example, but in this case, the player was doing negative 2-4 damage to the creature (shown as simply 0). New damage:

Creature Modification

Added custom game modifiers for individually disabling certain creatures and/or aberrant spawns.

Improved Item Pick-ups

Item pick-ups no longer delay movement based on the amount of items picked up. Item notifications are now sped up to match the amount.

Old delay:

New delay:

Here's a work in progress version of the rest of the normal changelog:

New

Games won or lost after this update will be replayable (same seed, same options) via their highscores.
You can now configure your starting skills and skill gain multipliers globally in the custom game options.
Fire elementals now spawn when causing fire to overflow through stoking or other means at lower reputation levels.

Improvements

Adjacent items will now fully unlock crafting recipes instead of just allowing them to be crafted.
Certain skills will now provide consumable bonuses for edible items such as the cooking skill for cooked foods much like the previous bonuses for botany for fruit/vegetables.
Pressing the "enter" bind in dropdown components will now select the first entry in the list.
Slimes can now on occasion combine into a jelly cube.
You can now set the seed for challenge games (not daily).
Milestones will now only unlock within hardcore and challenge modes.
You can now stoke fire elementals to heal them.
You will now be able to catch fish adjacent to tiles from where your line was cast to.
Increased difference in color between miss messages/notifiers versus exceptional items and stat message/notifiers versus legendary items.
You can now blacklist types of messages in a message filter.

Bug Fixes

Fixed swapping equipment in hands not working properly. (Thanks rifticles!)
Fixed the "enter" bind unfocusing the selected button.
Fixed notifier sometimes not fading out items and numbers properly.
Fixed tentacles not being considered raw meat and worm meat not being considered meat.
Fixed keyboard support not working on dropdown components in menus.
Fixed container dialog titles not being updated when removing a rename.
Fixed an error when loading a game that had a disabled mod's quest requirement pinned.
Fixed a bug where players would gain extra stat values when equipped with legendary stat-increasing equipment. (Thanks sechsauge!)
Fixed log files getting very large when joining multiplayer servers.
Fixed black screen and out of memory issues when joining large servers.
Fixed an issue that caused the global save data to import incorrectly. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed an issue that could cause the game to only partially load due to corrupt global save data. (Thanks Nandalee!)
Fixed blurring the chat input sometimes sending the message.
Fixed previously tamed creatures not attacking the player while being hitched if they previously were attempting to attack another creature. (Thanks sechsauge!)
Fixed language setting being reset when closing from in-game.
Fixed a issue that did not update the name of a container when transmogrifying it. (Thanks sechsauge!)
Fixed modded images not displaying on UI elements on macOS.
Fixed item notifiers not fading out properly or showing all items that were picked up.
NPCs will no longer hurt themselves by walking into dangerous things.
Prevented hangs due to Steam Workshop issues when starting the game. (Thanks Matthew Cline!)

Balance

Missing in combat will now have less of a chance to gain skill.
Some creatures are now harder to hit based on what tile they are on including fish in water.
Decreased the effectiveness of stoking fire and reduced fire starting fuel levels slightly.
Decreased the weight of coal and increased its fuel potential and trading worth.
Trampling plants now has a rare chance to spawn claw worms (this includes both players and other creatures).
You will no longer take double damage and "work yourself into exhausting" when taking damage from starving/dehydration at low stamina values.
Increased the damage produced by stepping in lava.
Decreased the amount of ash dropped from lit torches.
Pineapples will no longer provide any health benefits when consuming them.
Slightly decreased effectiveness of botany/mycology skills affecting consumable items.

Modding

Added the hook ShouldCraft for cancelling crafts.
Added the hook OnInspectionSection for tweaking tile inspections in tooltips.
Allowed providesLight to function without providesFire.

Mods

Debug Tools

Fixed desyncs when using the kill action on players.

Technical

Performance improvements when loading games.

Stay tuned for more news!

[ 2019-02-24 00:20:19 CET ] [ Original post ]

Wayward Soundtracks Released

Greetings all, While we are in this downturn of Wayward patch releases, we have another, different type of release for you. Coming to you by popular demand are the downloadable soundtracks to the game, available through Steam and in support of Austin Dhillon, the composer of the music for Wayward. The soundtracks are split up into two eras of Wayward. The Alpha and the Beta. A very long time ago, I posted on Reddit asking for some music help on a very early version of Wayward. I had a few people interested, with some even producing tracks that made their way into an earlier version of the game. But, I eventually reached out to another responder that had a very down-tempo, moody 8-bit synth song available on their Soundcloud. It fit very closely to what I had always wanted in the game. I originally shared the "Cave Theme" to the NES Willow game as an example to what I was kind of looking for. What Austin first shared (which turned out to be a rough cut of Darker World) gave me goosebumps. I knew right there that I wanted him to produce all the music for the game. The haunting qualities and atmosphere perfectlyaligned with what I had envisioned. The subtle hip-hop influences also made it a very unique amalgamation of different interests and tastes; playing off of my vision and Austin's strengths.

Wayward Soundtrack: Volume Alpha

https://store.steampowered.com/app/988620/Wayward_Soundtrack_Volume_Alpha/ Wayward Soundtrack: Volume Alpha contains all the original tracks from the game, composed and produced by Austin Dhillon in September of 2011 and released as part of Wayward Alpha 1.5 on September 15, 2012.Since then, many people have remarked at the haunting beauty and sometimes chilling atmosphere showcased in the songs; a perfect fit for the survival aspect of Wayward.

Wayward Soundtrack: Volume Beta

https://store.steampowered.com/app/988621/Wayward_Soundtrack_Volume_Beta/ Wayward Soundtrack: Volume Beta is the long awaited follow-up to the original 9 tracks, composed and produced by Austin Dhillon throughout 2018. Released as part of Beta 2.7, these hip-hop inspired tracks range from dreamlike to dark and provide a mysterious backdrop to Wayward's survival experience. Purchasing these DLC soundtracks directly supports Austin Dhillon and do not provide any in-game content. I thought I would try to make that clear in case anybody gets the wrong idea about this DLC. Hopefully this is just the beginning of our journey with Austin. Special shout-out toDusty "Goaticide" Melling for the album art! Stay tuned for beta 2.7.4!

[ 2019-02-01 23:30:10 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.7.3 Released

Welcome to beta 2.7.3! The not so minor, minor release! We have hopefully wrapped up the majority of the bugs and issues brought forward with 2.7. But more important may be the balance changes and UI improvements in this release. Our intention with the plant and gardening changes was to create a bit of risk and with the reward of producing large crops, but also to further the watering mechanic which was tedious with little benefit previously. We have had a lot of feedback on that as soon as you produced crops, there was no worry about food. This should adjust that sentiment, at least slightly for now. It was important to introduce something for this that was completely optional. You can plant and gather from your crops just like before, but if you want to continue to sustain life in the same crops, you must tend to them a bit more. Another common complaint was the usefulness of copper. While the original intention was to create a resource that wasn't necessarily as good iron for the sake of variety and training your skills, it fell short as many players simply skipped the resource entirely in favor of iron. So, now with the previous changes of repairing copper items not requiring fire, differing resistances/vulnerabilities, combined with the changes in this patch (reduced weight and reduced crafting resources), we hope that it can now fill some more niches. We possibly need to stagger the release of beta 2.8 a bit, so there will likely be another large-ish patch for the 2.7.x series to look forward to. Please read below for all the details on the other changes.

New

Added new options for messages, allowing you to configure the log length, whether buttons are visible in the chat row, and whether timestamps should be rendered.

Added ability for dedicated servers to be private.
Added an option to disable note pinning to the notes dialog.
Added an invite game button within the "Multiplayer" menu that will open the Steam friends overlay.
Added five additional dedicated server command line arguments: +pvp, +private, +maxPlayers, +turnMode, and +new.

Improvements

Traps will now notify all nearby players of trap misses and reward skill points to the trap owners if they are in view.

Watering plants will now increase their health/durability.
The gardening skill now provides a bonus reduction of plant and mushroom growth time when watering them.
The game's bindings have been moved to a new "Bindings Menu" accessible from the options menu.
The "World" menu and button has been split up into "Modes" and "Multiplayer".
Creatures will now only de-spawn on your current Z level (preventing cave creatures from de-spawning before making your way down there).
The focus will no longer be removed from the chat on "enter", and "cancel" (esc) no longer pauses the game when the chat is focused.
The terrain quality is now shown in tooltips.
The "Diagonal Movement" option is now named "Alternating Direction Movement".
Item tooltips will now match world tooltip styles in regards to item quality.
Renamed legendary items will no longer include their flavorful suffixes.
Improved the appearance of icons and many other components in small UI scales.
You can now rename games in challenge mode for multiplayer servers.
Improved the readability and UX of stat multipliers.
Increased difference in color between skill increases and remarkable items.

Balance

Copper ore now weighs less (on average) than iron ore, reducing the weight of all copper-crafted items.

Copper smelting no longer requires carbon powder.
Metal chests now require 15 ingots (down from 20).
Tweaked the nighttime creature spawning in between -4000 to 4000 reputation so that only easier hostile creatures will spawn.
Decreased reputation gain when planting seeds, but increased reputation when watering.
Increased chance of digging up resources/items for most types of terrain/flooring.
Removed the ability for smaller fruits to produce seeds after eating them (like for raspberries, cucumbers, etc.). They can still be dismantled to produce seeds.
Reduced the effectiveness of resting (over sleeping) for stamina regeneration.
Resting will no longer provide increased healing benefits (only sleeping will produce such effects).
Growing plants on fertile soil will no longer add their full fertility potential on each growth stage.
Watering plants with seawater will now harm plants.
Harvesting and gathering will now damage plants rarely based on skill.
Regenerative effects of plants has been reduced.
Decreased lock picking success chance slightly.
Dough will now decay. (Thanks Arnkh!)

Bug Fixes

Fixed the "Welcome" quest not showing up as pinned on a new game start.
Fixed hitched tamed creatures moving positions when moved into. (Thanks Lovefield!)
Fixed the Operator and Hunter milestones not being achievable. (Thanks Oragepoilu!)
Fixed merchants not starting with any inventory when travelling to new islands.
Fixed tooltips not updating when turns pass.
Fixed an issue where sharks could still spawn within fresh water. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed hitched creatures not dropping items or consuming offered items on the ground among other issues. (Thanks Ygdrad!)
Fixed thrown items erroneously taking 2 points of damage.
Fixed movement not stopping when cancelling out of walk to tile. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed difficulty icons overlapping on small UI scales. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed bind translations not updating when switching languages.
Fixed the messages dialog not closing when moving it to a quadrant.
Fixed the join by game code menu not remembering the last game code joined.
Fixed some in-game things only being translated after changing the language in-game.
Fixed mouse moving causing "janky" movement when pointing at certain angles when diagonal movement was disabled.
Fixed tooltips sometimes not working after a loading interrupt.
Fixed disabled character slots from unhiding when loading the game.
Fixed a hard lock in the death menu when killed while resting, sleeping, renaming, or confirming.
The save slots no longer re-order visibly upon opening the load game menu.
Fixed menu tooltips appearing in the corner for a split second.
Fixed a broken install date showing for local mods.
Fixed changing your workshop mod subscriptions while on the mods menu not refreshing the list.
Fixed interrupts not being dismissed when disconnecting from a server.
Fixed some issues with wording and requirements within the Starter Quest. (Thanks Azazel!)
Fixed an oversight that didn't produce item durability warnings when using ranged weapons. (Thanks GauHelldragon!)
Fixed several grammar issues. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed milestones messages being displayed incorrectly on occasion.
Fixed English rules being included in other languages (Thanks fenymak!).
Fixed the item qualities note failing to be translated. (Thanks Lovefield!)
Fixed disabling a mod that provides the currently selected language not deselecting the language.

Modding

Fixed changing the mod list between saves causing Registry().get() properties to reference the wrong registrations.
Fixed mods with registrations that require each other freezing the game (Thanks Lovefield!).
Custom stylesheets are now loaded by path, allowing the sheet to reference resources from within the mod directory more easily.
Creatures, doodads, and tile events are no longer required to have descriptions.
Added the OnGetTranslation hook for mods to manipulate translations post-interpolation.
Command names are now translateable.

Mods

OwO Whats This

A silly new language mod.

Challenge Server

A new mod for those hosting dedicated servers which automatically runs challenge mode games.

Debug Tools

Fixed the dialog not toggling the tab drawer correctly on open.

[ 2019-01-20 01:00:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.7.2 Released

Hello all, Here's another patch to continue improving the beta 2.7.x series. We've identified some issues with multiplayer over the last few days and have corrected some connection bugs as well as done some balancing.More to come soon! Hope everybody enjoyed/is enjoying their holidays!

Improvements

Players will no longer connect to games fully when connecting without the proper mods enabled.
Plants that have its main resource as a gatherable will now mention that when revealing that it is ready to harvest.
Plants that can not be harvested will now reveal which stage is the most ideal to gather.

Bug Fixes

Corrected an issue server side that prevented users from joining games using WebRTC (default mode).
Fixed mod save data not actually saving & sometimes persisting to the next loaded world.
Fixed walk to tile failing in high latency situations.
Prevented double clicking the continue game button corrupting the game. (Thanks Lovefield!)
Fixed being unable to use actions in rare cases during multiplayer games.
Fixed the Steam overlay rendering fully white in windowed mode until a window resize happened.
Fixed the player's head being offset when sleeping in a bedroll.
Fixed an issue where players with no reputation would cause creature spawning issues and display incorrectly when viewed within Discord.
Dying by drinking water directly from the ground will no longer log that you drank from a waterskin.
Fixed field of view changes to transition properly when turns were passed by other players.
Fixed a translation issue that caused errors with links to not display properly.

New

Added a new note for treasure maps/hunting.

Balance

Reduced weight range of lightening legendaries.
Creature spawn rate will now be increased based on connected players and quest requirements in challenge mode.

Modding

Tags are now updated when publishing new versions of mods.
game.updateView and game.updateRender now require a source argument. Mods should pass in RenderSource.Mod for it.
Fixed inspection type registration when the handler function was passed directly.

Mods

TARS

Improved well building logic.
Fixed not idling to pass turns in simulated turn mode.

[ 2018-12-29 02:15:08 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.7.1 Released

Here's a quick follow-up patch to our release yesterday. While there's several more issues and improvements we are working on, these should serve as a start of what is to come over the next few weeks. We wanted to get this out as soon as possible due to the strength bug. It seems like most of you are "enjoying" this bug a little too much! If you want to change your strength back to a reasonable value, please try out Debug Tools where you can open a player inspect panel (by default ALT+P) and set a strength value at the bottom of the dialog. As mentioned in the release notes below, this bug caused players to gain 25 extra points of strength on each strength increase. Knowing this, you should be able to figure out how much to deduct from your total if you want to. Alternatively, you can modify this stat directly using our console guide and modifying: localPlayer.stats.Strength.value

Improvements

Improved performance across several aspects of the game including adjacent container crafting.
Servers with a different build than the client in the server list will no longer be displayed (servers running development branch shouldn't show up for everyone).
Character heads no longer incorrectly shift in position when facing south or north.

Bug Fixes

Fixed strength increasing by 26 each time "you felt your strength increasing". (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed the screen from being black for a couple seconds after joining a multiplayer game.
Fixed a rare desync in challenge mode when a creature is spawned after a player has completed a tame/kill creature requirement.
Fixed the "Health Issues" note not always showing the correct items in multiplayer games.
Fixed the tops of heads clipping through doors and trees.
Fixed the stranded note sometimes showing up for everyone when another player joins the game.
Fixed bald hair styles from clipping over tall doodads. (Thanks Amax!)
Fixed a desync caused by trying to plant seeds into tilled ground that spawned in abandoned gardens.
Fixed "return to title" confirmation text in multiplayer, challenge mode, and when the player is a ghost. Also fixed text on death & win in the same cases.
Fixed player death messages not appearing to everyone in multiplayer.
Removed a rogue "A" prefix in the repair/reinforce/transmogrify item menu actions. (Thanks Tkenny123!)
Fixed the UI being shifted down when the game isn't paused.

Mods

TARS

Added the ability to craft and build wells.
Fixed trying to plant seeds on the wrong type of terrain.
Fixed trying to gather from a water still while it was full of ash.

[ 2018-12-24 00:45:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

Wayward Beta 2.7 Deserted Trials Released

While most of the world is "enjoying" the cold, Wayward is about to get hot, especially with its revamped desert biome, two new modes of play, and a new set of songs, composed by Austin Dhillon. After a long year of work on Wayward and releasing two of the most requested features by the players (that being multiplayer and NPCs), we decided to take a step back and work on something less requested, but just as important: replayability. https://youtu.be/7ZgjkHXiWEM We are introducing two new modes of play:

Custom Mode

Pick and choose modifiers to customize your Wayward experience. You can significantly change the difficulty and feel of the game using different combinations of options.

Challenge Mode

Previously called Daily Challenge, this difficult mode now has randomly generated modifiers and quests intended for quick playthroughs and races with friends. With these new modes, the breadth of options at your disposal should allow you to play Wayward the way you see fit. Another part of that replayability aspect is multiplayer. It was hard and tedious to get a group together to play. We have introduced a brand-new server browser that will allow you to not only find your friend's games easier but will also allow you to find new friends by joining their public games. Additionally, you can now simply copy a code within the "World" menu and share it with anybody you want to join your game. You no longer must rely on Steam to facilitate multiplayer. Speaking of which, we have implemented Discord rich presence allowing Discord to share what you are doing within Wayward but also enables you to invite others to your game. Other Discord members can even ask to join your game as well. Along with the replayability theme, we also added a ton of new content including three new creatures, three new plants, and tons of items featured primarily in the desert biome. A few other stand-out additions include:

Added hitching posts, an item and doodad that will allow players to tether creatures, a contest winning idea submitted by Xechorizo.
Added wells that can be built to collect and store fresh, unpurified water. This idea was a contest winner, submitted by Adrien S. Enzo.
Added metal cookware, flour, dough and hardtack as an intro into baking. Hardtack itself was a contest winner, submitted by RatElemental.

Oh ya, and how about that new music? Beta 2.7 is dropping with 9 new tracks! 9 tracks that serve as the long awaited follow up to the original tracks, composed by Austin Dhillon. These hip-hop inspired tracks range from dreamlike to dark and provide a mysterious backdrop to Wayward's survival experience. Typically, we would have spent another month on beta 2.7, but we are attempting to speed up our release schedule a bit. This means less substantial updates, but a bit more frequent. We also wanted to release during the holidays for most people. Enjoy and please continue reporting issues and submitting suggestions! Wall o text begins forthwith:

New

Added a "Custom" game mode that allows setting different game options and modifiers.
Challenge mode has been redesigned with unique sets of quests and custom difficulty modifiers for quick play sessions.
You can now see a list of all open multiplayer servers via a server browser in the Multiplayer menu.
9 new music tracks, composed and produced by Austin Dhillon have been added to the game.
Added hitching posts, an item and doodad that will allow players to tether creatures, a contest winning idea submitted by Xechorizo.
Added wells that can be built to collect and store fresh, unpurified water. This idea was a contest winner, submitted by Adrien S. Enzo.
Added metal cookware, flour, dough and hardtack as an intro into baking. Hardtack itself was a contest winner, submitted by RatElemental.
Introducing the "Aloe Vera" plant. Useful for its antiseptic qualities and application to the skin to sooth burning pain.
Added the quick and nimble "Antelope Jackrabbit" to the reworked desert biome.
There are now multiple types of sand, "beach sand" and "desert sand" with unique properties in regard to plant life and creature spawning.
Added a new type of desert tree. Introducing the "Joshua Tree" that produces fruit and leaves suitable for cordage.
Added a new type of cactus for the desert. Introducing the tall and girthy, "Saguaro Cactus".
Added the dangerous "Rattlesnake", a new creature spotted in the desert biome.
Added a shareable game code for multiplayer games (due to new Steam privacy settings not showing "Join Game" in some cases).
Legendary items now have flavorful names based on what kind of legendary are.
Added a few new books and added a randomized book to the player's starting inventory (based on milestone unlocks).
Added support for LAN. You can now connect to multiplayer games using an internal IP address.
Adding a new desert-dwelling creature. Introducing the "scorpion", the arachnid known for its ominous stinger.
Some creatures, including the claw worm will now help grow and heal plants when moving over them and at a higher chance when tamed.
Scrolls and maps will no longer be consumed on use and can be shared between players. They can also be dismantled into "shredded paper" along with books.
Added Discord Rich Presence to Wayward, allowing players to view game details within Discord and join others in multiplayer games if they send an invite or are asked to join.
Added a way to export/import global save data (for debug/testing) within the options menu.
Implemented a GPU power preference option (to lower/raise power consumption for better battery life or performance).
Added support for Challenge Mode in multiplayer.
Added three new legendary properties.
Added "Playtime" support for Steam Workshop modifications. This will allow users to search mods by playtime and display if they have used individual mods in the past.
Added "Operator" and "Huntsman" milestones.
Added a "best" item sort option (for highest quality/durability, lowest weight).
Added a couple new garden templates that can spawn randomly on world generation.
Added a new note and help article for explaining item qualities.

Improvements

Redesigned the skill and milestone dialogs. They're easier to read, cause less lag, and you can now sort/filter them too.
The quality of items and doodads are now shown in their names, and in all cases they are now colored, giving additional context to messages.
Item piles/stacks are now limited based on item weight (rather than a max of 12 across all items).
The Starter Quest has been redesigned with the new questing system.
Players will now be notified overhead of missed attacks and zero damage hits.
Tooltips for tiles have been redesigned. They are now broken into "sections" for each thing on the tile, and important information is highlighted in the description.
Character selection is now skipped when joining a dedicated server you've joined before.
Smaller creatures will no longer trample plants.
NPCs will no longer become hostile from taking damage from non-player sources.
Players will now receive reputation loss/gain when damaging and killing other players based on their opponent's reputation.
Merchants will now always keep a minimum stock of four items (excluding those taken by players).
Items that have no defined durability will now produce damaged item sounds and warning messages (this includes most crafting resources).
Tooltips for NPCs, players, high quality items, and aberrant creatures now have borders in their tooltips matching their respective colors.
Players will now receive reputation loss/gain from their tamed creatures attacking and/or killing other players based on the target opponent's reputation.
Items that are not repairable will no longer mention they are "in need of repair".
Cartography now reveals which direction the map is in with varying degrees of accuracy (based on cartography skill).
Added in a resting delay between each turn to allow the "Cancel" button to function more consistently.
Named or tamed creatures no longer "inexplicably" die.
There is now a separate mouse turn delay option, allowing you to set a unique value for keyboard and mouse movement delays for turning.
Books will now be renamed after reading them based on what they are.
Water creatures will no longer spawn in bodies of water that are too small when fished or baited with food items. Sea creatures will also no longer spawn in fresh water through these means.
The appearance of tattered maps has been tweaked and positional information will now display in the map dialog.
You can no longer set down flooring over top of fires and other tile events.
Improved the screen animation when dying with respawning enabled.
Slither suckers will now adapt to the tiles they are placed down on instead of being dropped as an item or not at all if they could not naturally move on the tiles surrounding the player.
Added a new untradable item grouping for some items that will no longer be bought/sold by merchants.
Black powder use with weapons will no longer require a full item each use, but rather use its durability as "charges".
You can no longer fish up badderlocks (seaweed) from fresh water sources.
Multiplayer options are now saved with worlds. Loading a game that was last open to multiplayer will ask if you want to load it as multiplayer again.
The "insect" item category is now referred to as "bait".
Importing a save game now only displays JSON files (the file extension Wayward uses for saves) by default.
Improved performance of dropping many items into deep water.
Spiders no longer bleed red blood. Wat.
Items and corpses in lists, such as those that would appear in messages or tooltips, are now sorted by item quantity.
Sleeping or resting with a lit torch will extinguish it or cause fires around the player.
Cooked insect meat is no longer considered an "insect".
Stamina regenerated during sleep and rest is now scaled based on maximum dexterity/stamina.
Increased the visually differences between wooden spears and wooden poles.
Improved dialog scroll controls by increasing their width and reducing resizing anchor sizes (as they could expand over scrollbars previously).
Tweaked the "exceptional" purple color to be more readable when used for text.
Added in an option to enable/disable protected crafting items to apply to items inside protected containers. (Thanks Stungun!)
Built legendary illumination torches will now produce their legendary effects.
Music tracks are now dynamically chosen and weighted based on the player's current situation in-game. This feature can be disabled in the options.
New UI dialogs now remember their locations/sizes the last time they were moved/resized, so that if the screen scale changes, when the screen scale returns they return to their saved positions.

Bug Fixes

Fixed world tooltips from rapidly flashing on/off if hovering over an object while using an item/performing actions. (Thanks Monkeys!)
Fixed facing directions not working in multiplayer games (for clients).
Fixed a bug that did not save legendary properties on doodads when placed and picked back up.
Prevented movement/scrolling speed from affecting creature movement speed.
Fixed an issue joining servers with very large worlds (larger than 40MB).
Fixed weapons using black powder even when you did not have any ammunition available.
Fixed some walk to tile issues when near or on the world's edge. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Disabled pausing the game during the death animation.
Fixed a visual glitch when lava appeared near rock/mountain faces producing a colored border until the save was reloaded.
Tweaked the rendering order of some in-game graphics so certain objects will not pop in/over the character any longer.
Fixed legendary containers from being re-rolled on use. (Thanks DanekJovax!)
Copal resin is now considered a "powder". (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed bind names (bindPress) not being able to be translated.
Fixed a bug where walking into a trap door spider with attacking (left/right hands) disabled would not reveal it.
Fixed a bug where traps would not revert back to the correct item properties (leading to randomized weight, unmodified names, etc.) when being set off.
Fixed an issue where anchor and control elements for new dialogs would be offset with small resolutions.
Fixed errors when loading a save with an unknown note (from a disabled mod).
Fixed a bug that passed a turn when attempting to decode a map that was not of the current world.
Fixed a disassembly exploit where it would be possible to always return one item even if the recipe only used one item, allowing infinite repeated crafting/disassembly. (Thanks Dez!)
Fixed being able to craft stone arrowheads and other stone tools with obsidian. (Thanks Arnkh!)
Fixed the "Menu Cancel" bind not working to go back from some menus, like the Options menu.
Fixed a rare issue where corpses could be displayed in the wrong graphic.
Fixed hooks not registering correctly if another hook had been registered to the same priority but was deregistered.
Fixed soil being duplicated and then dropped when digging up caves repeatedly. (Thanks Xech!)
Legendary items that had a reduced weight will no longer update to new weights (when changed) that would lead to 0 or negative weight items.
Fixed some mods staying partially enabled when connecting to a non-modded multiplayer server.
Fixed an oversight that caused reduced effectiveness of offering items to creatures to increase the maximum happiness level.
Ghost movement in simulated turns mode no longer passes turns for living players.
Fixed a bug that caused NewUI save data to be synced to clients in multiplayer. The fix for this may require players to reorganize their dialog/UI positions. Apologies!
Fixed the "Encumbered" note causing errors if you had less than 3 unique items in your inventory.
Fixed some options appearing cropped when not using the pixel font. (Thanks Dolphin!)
Fixed many spelling misteaks.
Fixed the "New Game" menu showing an incorrect save name and not letting you play the Challenge mode when at the maximum amount of save slots.
Fixed "enter" not causing a sound in interrupts when choosing "yes" or confirming.
Fixed the "open server" check button in the world menu defaulting the server to real-time mode rather than simulated turns.
The paused icon in real-time mode & multiplayer is now clickable, and the game no longer automatically unpauses when the host closes an interrupt.

Balance

Some creatures will now have a chance to skip movement for a turn (with the chance being different for each creature) but all creatures will now have a lower chance to become uninterested. Affected creatures will generally have a higher attack now.
Fishing rods no longer require bait when crafted but casting to catch fish will now use bait to attract them to your hook or net.
Increased the stamina received from drinking and eating most types of food.
Creatures that may spawn from dropping food into water, fishing, or gathering treasure will no longer move or attack after spawning.
Aberrant corpses will now increase reputation if the creature was normally non-hostile.
Added a spawning cap to merchant NPCs.
The taming quest within the Starter Quest has been moved further down the line.
Tactics will now raise when using throwing or marksmanship as a combat skill on successful hits.
Books now have a higher chance to be a "special" book.
Glass flasks are now less durable, require more ingredients and are harder to craft.
Creatures will now trample plants when attacking from a tile that has a plant.

Modding

All mod registrations are now done via a new suite of @Register decorators. Check out the modding guide or the Troposphere modification to learn how it's done!
Mods can now add their own sections to tile tooltips/inspections, with @Register.inspectionType.
Added support for adding Workshop tags for modifications via mod.json.
Mods can now register custom ItemTypeGroups, for use in recipes or item sorting.

Mods

TARS

Improved base building logic. Bases should now be built in better locations.
Fixed attempting to gather from tiles with other players on it.

Debug Tools

Fixed fog and lighting options being global instead of per-player.
Fixed the FOV/FOW not returning after healing from death.
Noclipping movement is no longer delayed when overweight.
Fixed "walk to tile" path not being reset when teleporting.
You can now teleport on top of impassable doodads and terrain when noclip is enabled.
Added the ability to set plant growth stages.

Technical

Added a new "questing" system; the system that is used for Challenge Mode quests. It comes with mod support, so mods can provide their own quests (modders: see Starter Quest to learn how it's done).
Updated Wayward to use Electron 3.0.12.
The actions system has been rewritten in order to more strongly type action execution and provide a more robust API. Modded actions will be different as a result. See the Debug Tools or Troposphere mods for examples.
The language system has been rewritten to fix many longstanding issues. Pluralization rules are now handled by language-provided regular expression replacements, numbers are now translatable, and most hardcoded strings have been removed.
The max save size has been doubled.
System hardware (CPU, GPU, and memory) is now logged for easier troubleshooting.
Added an openGpuInfoPage launch option to allow opening GPU info page (chrome://gpu) for debugging GPU issues.
Updated Wayward to TypeScript 3.2.

[ 2018-12-22 18:20:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

Wayward Newsletter #6

Beta 2.6 Postmortem

Beta 2.6 turned out to be another long one in terms of bug fixes and improving the new additions we brought forth in the release. We got up to six patches before eventually moving on to the next major update. Some things of note within the beta 2.6 release and minor patches included:

Added a "Simulated Turns" multiplayer mode, which allows time/turn passing as long as players are performing actions, otherwise the game will be paused.
The Debug Tools mod has been completed redesigned and has a brand new feature set. Shout-out to Yuudaari for this!
Added NPCs to the game that will spawn rarely and randomly in your world that you can barter and trade with. It was a bit too rare at the start, but we recently tweaked this a bit. Although, as it turned out, it may need some more tweaking for longer games.
You can now pathfind/move automatically to a tile using ctrl + left click (or middle mouse click) by default.
You can now use adjacent tiles with items or containers as a source for crafting ingredients and recipe discovery. This was later improved to also be used for dismantling/disassembling as well.

Almost all of these have been suggested by the community and were eventually considered high-priority additions. You can see a full overview of all of the 2.6 changes here: http://www.waywardgame.com/changelog

Beta 2.7 Plans

One of our main goals and focus for beta 2.7 will be replayability and variety. Although, we still want to prioritize what the community votes for in the game, it is important to keep an active playerbase as well. To this end, we are adding in some new features that weren't necessarily the most popular in terms of votes, but thought would help the game sustain a healthy following as we develop. Some of these ideas include: Server Browser Finding people to play with is hard and laborious. To help everybody (including those that graciously hosted dedicated servers in the past), we are replacing the "Friends" menu with a server browser that will show all public multiplayer games (or ones that your friends are in). Daily Challenge The daily challenge mode in Wayward has never been the most engaging. It's basically just a harder version of the game with no saving. We want to redesign this from the ground up to be a quick pick-up game with unique modifiers and goals/challenges. We envision these games to last around 30 minutes to 1 hour in length (from start to death or win). Custom Game Mode A great side effect of adding in custom modifiers for the daily challenge is we can add a custom game mode where players can pick and choose them for their own normal game. Things like decreasing hunger/thirst rates, disabling creature hostility, modifying reputation rates, and more.

Beta 2.7 Reveals

We don't have a great amount to show yet as everything is still kind of sitting in a state of "half-done", but there are a few things we can at least preview. Tooltip Improvements

Tooltips are getting a face-lift! World tooltips are much easier to read/scan and feature expanded information. Desert Improvements

The desert areas are about to look a lot better and feature some more unique content. We're adding three new plants, a new desert creature, and even a new tile into the mix. Wells

Wells are coming to beta 2.7 as part of the "Item Idea Contest" that we held over the last month or so. Find more information on the contest below.

Wishlist

As always, we are offering a streamlined way to get your suggestions and ideas in for beta 2.7 as well develop it. While there are tons of things we have already added, we still have a few months of development to go before the next release. Wishlist thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/379210/discussions/0/3397295779072447621/ Wishlist poll: https://poll.ly/#/P0m1znKL

Item Contest Winners

We got a ton of item submissions. Thanks for all of your ideas! Sadly, we can't pick them all to win a place as some of the next new items to be featured in the game, but we made notes on everything submitted. So it's possible your idea may be a future addition. Take a look at the winners and winning items here: http://www.unlok.ca/wayward/item-idea-contest/

Steam Chat

In a weird turn of events, it looks as if Steam is getting to be a bit more like Discord, and Discord a bit more like Steam as of late. Wayward now has an official Steam Chat, although, we are unsure if this will actually take off the way our Discord did. Steam Chat Invite: https://s.team/chat/LKlicomi

Wayward on YouTube

In the last bit of news, it looks like Wayward finally has YouTube category. Sadly, it appears to be auto-generated with no way of updating or changing any of the information. But at least content creators can now use "Wayward" as the category instead of defaulting to Minecraft or something even less relevant which was the only option in the past. If you have created some content on Wayward on YouTube, we would appreciate it if you could update the category on your videos. Wayward category: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdN_GdZLMwmPKvE_sX2ab_w

[ 2018-10-21 03:20:45 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.6.6 Released

We've finally reached the end of the beta 2.6 series of patches. On to greater things with the commencement of beta 2.7 development! While this is normally the time for us to go silent on the news front, please make sure to follow us on social media or join our Discord server to stay up to date on all the development previews and discussion while we work on our next major update. Much of this release improves on the mechanics of merchants and addresses some of the issues spotted from the modding changes found in the last patch with other improvements sprinkled in as per usual. Speaking of beta 2.7, don't forget to check out our "Item Idea Contest" here: http://www.unlok.ca/wayward/item-idea-contest/ - Three winners here will get their item idea added to the game in beta 2.7.

Improvements

You can now cancel out of resting.
More than one merchant NPC is now able to spawn per world.
Healing merchants will now remove their hostility against you.
"Carve With Tool" now provides an item break confirmation when the option is enabled.
You can now pour out water on to other players to soothe their burn injuries.
Merchants and other players (when PVP is enabled) can no longer spawn within a player's view.
Merchants will now be burned when standing in fire (or lava).
The game will now continue to fade in even when the game is paused.
Messages are now displayed top-to-bottom when in an upper quadrant.

Balance

There is now a reputation loss or gain (instead of a guaranteed loss) when tamed creatures fight other creatures (based on if their target is hostile or not) and is applied specifically to the owner.
You can no longer jump over players and NPCs.

Bug Fixes

Fixed save errors on some hardware by reducing the amount of memory required to save the game (this will also make saving the game faster).
Fixed mods failing to load when joining a server, if a mod needed another mod as a dependency but the loading order was incorrect.
Fixed the game not quitting if it had been reloaded.
Fixed items not lighting on fire when dropped onto lava from a player's death or broken container.
Fixed an error on opening the options menu after using the "Enable All" button in the mods menu.
Fixed the "Enable All" button in the mods menu not updating the mod check buttons visually.
Fixed a regression where the mod options button was not hiding/showing when a mod is enabled/disabled.
Fixed a regression where mods were not able to use this.getPath() before image paths.
Fixed tile changes not saving in modded world layers.
Fixed a regression where mods were not able to import the Mod class by name.
Fixed a regression where menu bar buttons registered using mod.addMenuBarButton loaded images from the wrong path.
Fixed responding "no" to enable/disable "required mod" interrupts not cancelling enabling/disabling the first mod.
Fixed errors caused by loading a save which had previously had a mod enabled with custom stats.

Modding

Added "inter-mod registries", for mods to provide things to others (or not, if the target mod is not present).

Mods

Troposphere

Fixed taking damage as a ghost when falling from the troposphere.
Fixed emptying a water tile in the troposphere spawning a dirt tile in its place.

Balancing Tools

Now compatible with Debug Tools 2.0.

Debug Tools

Other players besides the host on a server now do not have permission to use Debug Tools by default (this can be changed by inspecting the player).
Fixed a bug that caused panels registering as hook hosts if you disabled debug tools after loading a game with it.
Fixed an error when closing the Debug Tools dialog.
Now supports other mods adding custom panels, inspection panels, and entity inspection sections.
Fixed adding items to inventory producing multiple items based on how many times you opened the inspect dialog.
Fixed items from mods loaded after Debug Tools not appearing in "Add Item to Inventory" inspection dropdowns.
Actions can now be used while moving.

[ 2018-09-15 03:00:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.6.5 Released

We haven't quite yet started on the next major release, but instead have been plugging away on getting Wayward more stable, improving systems, and balancing the game. There has also been a lot of work and development put into new modding support. Something of note is that we released a new "Compatibility Branch" that should help anybody experiencing freezing, saving or graphical issues with the game. Please check this branch out if you are having one or more of these issues. More information on changing branches is available here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=721479594 Another thing to note is that we rebuilt the official Debug Tools mod from scratch using the new dialog and UI system. Among the ton of new features in it, it's now a great example case if you want to poke around in the code for your own modification. Shout-out to Yuudaari on that one! Check it out on the Steam Workshop here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=474819610

Improvements

In "Simulated Turns" mode, the game tick now occurs simultaneously with the player turn. The next game tick is still delayed by the same amount of time.
Plant spreading will now no longer cross doodads that block movement (walls, fences, etc.).
Multiple changes have been done to items produced when many items burn, including many fixes/consistency improvements.
Piles of ash can now burn away with enough time.
Doodads will provide more accurate and consistent items when burning, especially during different growth stages or stages of resource gathering for plants.
Items in fire (that can be burned) will now reduce in durability until eventually burning instead of sometimes instantly producing burned items.
Some items may now produce multiple items when burning (such as logs producing multiple charcoal). Crafted items will now also be more consistent with what they burn into based on what was used in the craft.
You can now connect to a server with required mods disabled. The game will automatically enable them for you and disable them after disconnecting.
Items that can spawn creatures on decay or break will now be able to spawn on a wider variety of tiles.
A saving screen will now show when exiting the game by closing the window.
You can now disable the custom cursor in the options menu.
Added some information about crafting fertile soil within the gardening help article.
Mods in the multiplayer menu now show their multiplayer compatibility in their tooltip. (Thanks black silence!)
Ghosts can no longer write notes.

Bug Fixes

Fixed difficulty appearing as a number instead of a message. (Thanks NB!)
Fixed players being briefly invisible when they join a multiplayer game in simulated turn mode.
Removed incorrect checks for under player when using an adjacent tile for sleeping.
Fixed the help article filter matching formatting code within article text.
Fixed a bug that would allow you to re-roll legendary item properties by crafting, then disassembling the item.
Fixed walk to tile sometimes displaying the wrong path in multiplayer.
Fixed being able to use the "/pause" command in single player/turn-based mode.
Fixed container weight display not updating when using consumables within them.
Fixed a rare issue where over repeated uses of the options menu the game may begin to become laggier (due to a UI leak).
Fixed unpublished mods marked as unloadable: false warning the user every time they load the save. (Thanks CloneDeath!)
Fixed imagePath loading mod resources from the game's root rather than the mod's root for stats, status effects, menu bar buttons, and more. (Thanks CloneDeath!)
Fixed not being able to use class instances with methods as descriptions in some mod registration functions. (Thanks CloneDeath!)
Fixed the "cannot be run on this system or browser" error screen fading in rapidly, and disappearing to loading screen.
Fixed a bug where creatures could continue attacking dead players/ghosts.
Prevented connected clients in multiplayer games from visually manipulating the state of game pausing (even though it had no impact).
Possibly fixed an issue where saving never completed.
Fixed an issue that caused worlds last used for multiplayer in simulated turns mode to stay as simulated turns mode in single player.
Fixed incorrect weight set for coconut containers of goat milk.
Removed ability to dismantle books as weight can be incorrect after opening books and revealing other/new items.
Fixed possible desyncs when crafting and starting fires.
Fixed the region that allowed idling from the mouse movement bind being sized incorrectly depending on the zoom level.
Fixed an issue where some creatures could get stuck when spawning from treasure chests.
Fixed each mod only being able to add one NewUi Dialog.
Fixed walk to tile issues near world edge.

Balance

Increased animal taming and bartering (trading) reputation gains.
Reduced the weight of limestone and limestone powder.
Reduced the stoke value of charcoal due to its new abundance with the other burning changes.
Items are now damaged when dropping to the ground on player death in casual and when breaking chests.

Modding

Updated the "Modding Guide" with a new tutorial for creating the "Hello World" example mod among other changes and fixes.
Added the GetZoomLevel hook, for overriding the default zoom functionality.
Added the PostFieldOfView hook, called when the field of view has been initialized.
Added a GetTilePenalty hook, used for manipulating which tiles should be preferred using "walk to tile".
@HookMethod now does type checking on the method it decorates. If the method is not a valid hook, it will error.
Added the GetCameraPosition hook for implementing a custom camera.
It is no longer necessary to mark mods with only customizations as "multiplayerCompatible", and it is no longer necessary to mark mods with no scripts or customizations as "multiplayerClientside".
Added multiple decorators such as @Mod.instance, @Mod.log, or @Mod.saveData for injecting a mod's objects into fields.
Added the GetMaxSpritesForLayer hook for changing the maximum number of sprites that can be rendered in a SpriteBatchLayer at once.

Mods

Debug Tools

The Debug Tools mod has been completed redesigned and has a brand new feature set.

Troposphere

You can now use "walk to tile" to walk directly into a hole in the troposphere, but in all other cases you will path around the hole.
Increased the base durability of the nimbus.
Fixed artifacting of the overworld during movement.

Ridiculous Hairdos

Marked as compatible for multiplayer.

Technical

Released a new "Compatibility Branch" that may resolve some compatibility issues on some hardware configurations.
Updated Wayward to Electron 3.0.0-beta 6.
Improved the performance of calling most hooks.
Tiles can now have multiple overlays.
Added new properties to IActionArgument.

[ 2018-09-01 07:20:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Beta 2.6.4 Released

We have been plugging away at another batch of bug fixes, modding goodies, performance upgrades, and other changes with a focus on quality of life improvements. Hopefully something for everybody to enjoy! Some stand-out features include:

Replaced the multiplayer menu with the world menu, allowing you to change your turn mode and tick rate in an existing world.
Added an item breaking warning for dismantle and disassemble requirements.
You can now ignite torches with other torches or fire starting devices directly in your inventory.
Doodads that cause status effects will now warn players when attempting to walk over them.
You will now only lose half the stamina (based on item weight) when failing to craft items.
Fixed extreme performance hits from static in-game UI, especially when old messages are removed and scrolled.

It looks like we are getting close to wrapping up beta 2.6, but we still have some remaining unsolved issues as of yet. These include: Character not appearing: https://steamcommunity.com/app/379210/discussions/1/1708438376927559767/ Freeze while saving: https://steamcommunity.com/app/379210/discussions/1/1759104257594700977/ Game freezing: https://steamcommunity.com/app/379210/discussions/0/1759104257593707044/ We are waiting on any additional information on these issues. Please let us know if you find anything! Instructions for reporting on each is located in the linked threads.

New

Replaced the multiplayer menu with the world menu, allowing you to change your turn mode and tick rate in an existing world.
You can now copy the message log, and export the entire message history in your current filter.

Improvements

Added an item breaking warning for dismantle and disassemble requirements.

Added filtering to the help menu for searching keywords.
Creatures are now easier to tame and will be tamed for longer based on how many times they have been tamed previously.
Added a "learn more" link to certain notes that open up relevant help articles.
Added a confirmation for attempting to heal yourself or others when at full health and not bleeding.
Replaced paused/resumed messages with a new pause/play icon.
Improved the look and consistency of all wooden items.
Official modifications shown in changelogs are now linked to their Workshop entry via their heading.
Added message logging for moving items, revealing the name of the container you moved the item(s) into.
You can now ignite torches with other torches or fire starting devices directly in your inventory.

Renamed the "Extincteur" milestone to "Exterminator".
Moving all items to a container will now no longer stop at the first instance of an item being too heavy to move, but instead will check if subsequent items are able to fit.
Doodads that cause status effects will now warn players when attempting to walk over them.

Dangerous movement confirmations (attempting to walk on fire/cacti/etc.) no longer show if they wouldn't actually hurt the player (via equipment protection).
Doodads and fire requirements are now separated within item tooltips, showing a red label if you don't have either or.
Added icons for all help articles.
Walk to tile will now walk through wooden gates.
Fire elementals and lava beetles can now be used as a fire source for crafting and lighting torches.
The dedicated server IP or hostname field will now remember the last server you joined.
Decreased how long the server pauses when players are connecting.
Improved the loading screen messages when joining a server.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that would not let you remove anything from a container if "Use Adjacent Containers/Items" was disabled. (Thanks sechsauge!)
Fixed disassembly "Additional Requirements" label showing for item tooltips that could not be disassembled.
Fixed some instances where tick time could freeze by changing some options while the game is running.
Fixed some instances where legendary item defense values were not getting applied (doodad and burn damage).
Fixed the server welcome message counting the server as a player.
Fixed copper disassembly requirements not showing that it requires a fire source.
Fixed the message area shrinking in size over time while the developer tools were open and docked to the side of the game.
Fixed some error messages showing HTML code.
Fixed the translation for time only showing PM in the hours of noon and midnight.
Fixed an oversight where healing other players did not stop bleeding or provide healing notifiers.
Fixed a rare desync when new players join a server.
Fixed a bug where item confirmations did not display if an item was used as the default use in a quickslot.
Fixed directional facing binds not working (shift + W/A/S/D by default).
Fixed a few tipos.
Fixed the open crafting dialog bind and button not toggling crafting (if it was set to dismantle). (Thanks Junis!)

Balance

Damage from stepping on doodads (such as cacti) will now take into account foot protection instead of the total of all armor. Parrying will no longer be factored into damage reduction.
You will now only lose half the stamina (based on item weight) when failing to craft items.

Modding

Mods can now add their own dialogs using the new UI system (no HTML/jQuery required).
Mods can now add their own notes.
Mods can now add their own help articles.
The fog color is now moddable.
Added an IsTileBlocked hook, used for "walk to tile" pathing.

Mods