Hi everyone,

A new hotfix for version 0.28 (0.28.01) is now live a small fix for skinning. Please make sure to restart Steam to download the update.

Stay Alive!
:: Beam Team
--

- Fixed Animals with Rawhide rewards not Skinning properly.

Hi everyone,

A new hotfix for version 0.28 (0.28.01) is now live a small fix for skinning. Please make sure to restart Steam to download the update.

Stay Alive!
:: Beam Team
--

- Fixed Animals with Rawhide rewards not Skinning properly.

Hi everyone,



This build transitions our latest work on the experimental branch to the stable branch.
If you haven’t been following the progress of our experimental branch, here’s some of the new features included:
We’ve covered the new features in the patch notes below and you can also read more on the new features in our previous experimental patch notes here:
New Clay resource, Brick building tier, Furnace and Brick station
New Roofing system
New Mining system and Minable resources

We had been receiving emails about players not having user permissions to write world or map data. There were a few possible causes for the error, but the most common seemed to be when the game was installed in the Program Files folder and the user account didn’t have sufficient privileges or security settings. So from this stable build on we’ve changed the location of the game’s save data. You will need to do a simple copy-paste to move your old save folder to the new location. A quick guide can be found here ---
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=892983896
This also allows players with multiple users (brothers, sisters, friends, etc) to have their own unique save game data if they have their own user account on the PC.

Also a small note for Mac users: In testing we have noticed that the game needs to be launched from the Steam app or a desktop shortcut created by Steam. If the game is run directly from the .app file, Steam fails to register as initialised and you will see an error message in the game.

Have fun!

Stay Alive!
:: Beam Team
--

- Fixed Shipwrecks not spawning on Small Islands.
- Fixed item display names not persisting.
- Fixed Smoked Meat reverting when stored in Containers.
- Fixed Water Still resetting timer when re-entering an island causing much longer waits.
- Fixed occupied or invalid building connectors blocking valid connectors behind when placing.

- Added Hammer mechanics to Tutorial.
- Added shadows to Crafting Ghost for better sense of placement depth.
- Replaced Steel building tier with new Clay building tier.
- Replaced Buckets with new Clay Water Bottle.
- Changed Steps placement to use rotating keys.
- Changed crafted objects to immediately pickup or store in backpack when crafted if possible.
- Changed Clay Waterbottle to start off empty.
- Changed world data and save file location to use user’s special documents folder.
- Increased Solar Still collection rate.
- Moved Wedge Foundations and Wedge Floors into Foundations and Floors crafting categories.
- Removed Structural Support.


- New Mining system!
There’s a new tool – the Refined Pick and two new minable resources – Rock and Clay. You can use the Pick to harvest the new resources which can be found around the islands. Rock is generally found on the islands, while Clay can be found under the water around the islands.

- New Pick craftable item!
- New Rock resource!
- New Clay resource!

- New Building Tier – Clay Bricks!
The Steel building tier did not fit the survival theme of Stranded Deep so it has been replaced with a Clay Brick tier. Clay can be found on islands and turned into Bricks with a Furnace and Brick station.

- New Brick station!
- New Clay Bricks building item!
- New Brick Foundation building item!
- New Brick Floor building item!
- New Brick Wall building item!
- New Brick Half Wall building item!
- New Brick Windowed Wall building item!
- New Brick Arch building item!

- New Roof building system!
The new Roof system is the final piece to constructing an authentic looking island hut! There’s two new types of roofing – Wood/Thatched and Clay/Brick. There’s 4 different roof pieces available so you can fill in most designs. Don’t forget that you can rotate building pieces with the Q and E keys when placing. These keys can also be reassigned in the input settings. It will be important to remember to use these keys so you can place roof pieces in the correct orientation with all the different placement possibilities.

- New Wood Roof Middle building piece!
- New Wood Roof Corner building piece!
- New Wood Roof Wedge Corner building piece!
- New Wood Roof Cap building piece!
- New Clay Roof Middle building piece!
- New Clay Roof Corner building piece!
- New Clay Roof Wedge Corner building piece!
- New Clay Roof Cap building piece!

- New Furnace station!
- New Clay Water Bottle item!

- New Great White Shark animal!

- Fixed Skinning not allowing you to skin with a full inventory when the reward is Rawhide.
- Fixed Skinnable animals not saving skinned state correctly.
- Fixed possibility of Tutorial crafting objectives not completing if auto-stored in backpack.

- Reduced performance overhead when creating and initializing new items.

Hi everyone,



This build transitions our latest work on the experimental branch to the stable branch.
If you haven’t been following the progress of our experimental branch, here’s some of the new features included:
We’ve covered the new features in the patch notes below and you can also read more on the new features in our previous experimental patch notes here:
New Clay resource, Brick building tier, Furnace and Brick station
New Roofing system
New Mining system and Minable resources

We had been receiving emails about players not having user permissions to write world or map data. There were a few possible causes for the error, but the most common seemed to be when the game was installed in the Program Files folder and the user account didn’t have sufficient privileges or security settings. So from this stable build on we’ve changed the location of the game’s save data. You will need to do a simple copy-paste to move your old save folder to the new location. A quick guide can be found here ---
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=892983896
This also allows players with multiple users (brothers, sisters, friends, etc) to have their own unique save game data if they have their own user account on the PC.

Also a small note for Mac users: In testing we have noticed that the game needs to be launched from the Steam app or a desktop shortcut created by Steam. If the game is run directly from the .app file, Steam fails to register as initialised and you will see an error message in the game.

Have fun!

Stay Alive!
:: Beam Team
--

- Fixed Shipwrecks not spawning on Small Islands.
- Fixed item display names not persisting.
- Fixed Smoked Meat reverting when stored in Containers.
- Fixed Water Still resetting timer when re-entering an island causing much longer waits.
- Fixed occupied or invalid building connectors blocking valid connectors behind when placing.

- Added Hammer mechanics to Tutorial.
- Added shadows to Crafting Ghost for better sense of placement depth.
- Replaced Steel building tier with new Clay building tier.
- Replaced Buckets with new Clay Water Bottle.
- Changed Steps placement to use rotating keys.
- Changed crafted objects to immediately pickup or store in backpack when crafted if possible.
- Changed Clay Waterbottle to start off empty.
- Changed world data and save file location to use user’s special documents folder.
- Increased Solar Still collection rate.
- Moved Wedge Foundations and Wedge Floors into Foundations and Floors crafting categories.
- Removed Structural Support.


- New Mining system!
There’s a new tool – the Refined Pick and two new minable resources – Rock and Clay. You can use the Pick to harvest the new resources which can be found around the islands. Rock is generally found on the islands, while Clay can be found under the water around the islands.

- New Pick craftable item!
- New Rock resource!
- New Clay resource!

- New Building Tier – Clay Bricks!
The Steel building tier did not fit the survival theme of Stranded Deep so it has been replaced with a Clay Brick tier. Clay can be found on islands and turned into Bricks with a Furnace and Brick station.

- New Brick station!
- New Clay Bricks building item!
- New Brick Foundation building item!
- New Brick Floor building item!
- New Brick Wall building item!
- New Brick Half Wall building item!
- New Brick Windowed Wall building item!
- New Brick Arch building item!

- New Roof building system!
The new Roof system is the final piece to constructing an authentic looking island hut! There’s two new types of roofing – Wood/Thatched and Clay/Brick. There’s 4 different roof pieces available so you can fill in most designs. Don’t forget that you can rotate building pieces with the Q and E keys when placing. These keys can also be reassigned in the input settings. It will be important to remember to use these keys so you can place roof pieces in the correct orientation with all the different placement possibilities.

- New Wood Roof Middle building piece!
- New Wood Roof Corner building piece!
- New Wood Roof Wedge Corner building piece!
- New Wood Roof Cap building piece!
- New Clay Roof Middle building piece!
- New Clay Roof Corner building piece!
- New Clay Roof Wedge Corner building piece!
- New Clay Roof Cap building piece!

- New Furnace station!
- New Clay Water Bottle item!

- New Great White Shark animal!

- Fixed Skinning not allowing you to skin with a full inventory when the reward is Rawhide.
- Fixed Skinnable animals not saving skinned state correctly.
- Fixed possibility of Tutorial crafting objectives not completing if auto-stored in backpack.

- Reduced performance overhead when creating and initializing new items.

Hi everyone,



This build features a new Mining Tool and Minable Resources! There’s a new tool – the Refined Pick and two new minable resources – Rock and Clay. You can use the Pick to harvest the new resources which can be found around the islands. Rock is generally found on the islands, while Clay can be found under the water around the islands.

We’ve been receiving emails about players not having user permissions to write world or map data. There’s a few possible causes for this error, but the most common seems to be when the game is installed in the Program Files folder and the user account doesn’t have sufficient privileges or security settings. So from this build we’ve changed the location of the game’s save data. You will need to do a simple copy-paste to move your old save folder to the new location. A quick guide can be found here ---
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=892983896
This also allows players with multiple users (brothers, sisters, friends, etc) to have their own unique save game data if they have their own user account on the PC.

Another small tweak in this build is that crafted items will automatically be picked up or stored in your backpack if possible. This saves unnecessary craft-pickup-craft-pickup scenarios.

A small note for Mac users: In testing we have noticed that the game needs to be launched from the Steam app or a desktop shortcut created by Steam. If the game is run directly from the .app file, Steam fails to register as initialised and you will see an error message in the game.

That’s it for this update. In the next week or so we’ll be moving the latest experimental updates over to the stable branch.

Have fun!

Stay Alive!
:: Beam Team
--

- Fixed Smoked Meat reverting when stored in Containers.
- Fixed item display names not persisting.

- Changed crafted objects to immediately pickup or store in backpack when crafted if possible.
- Changed world data and save file location to use user’s special documents folder.
- Changed Clay Waterbottle to start off empty.

- New Mining system!
- New Pick item!
- New Rock resource!
- New Clay resource!

- Reduced performance overhead when creating and initializing new items.

Hi everyone,



This build features a new Mining Tool and Minable Resources! There’s a new tool – the Refined Pick and two new minable resources – Rock and Clay. You can use the Pick to harvest the new resources which can be found around the islands. Rock is generally found on the islands, while Clay can be found under the water around the islands.

We’ve been receiving emails about players not having user permissions to write world or map data. There’s a few possible causes for this error, but the most common seems to be when the game is installed in the Program Files folder and the user account doesn’t have sufficient privileges or security settings. So from this build we’ve changed the location of the game’s save data. You will need to do a simple copy-paste to move your old save folder to the new location. A quick guide can be found here ---
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=892983896
This also allows players with multiple users (brothers, sisters, friends, etc) to have their own unique save game data if they have their own user account on the PC.

Another small tweak in this build is that crafted items will automatically be picked up or stored in your backpack if possible. This saves unnecessary craft-pickup-craft-pickup scenarios.

A small note for Mac users: In testing we have noticed that the game needs to be launched from the Steam app or a desktop shortcut created by Steam. If the game is run directly from the .app file, Steam fails to register as initialised and you will see an error message in the game.

That’s it for this update. In the next week or so we’ll be moving the latest experimental updates over to the stable branch.

Have fun!

Stay Alive!
:: Beam Team
--

- Fixed Smoked Meat reverting when stored in Containers.
- Fixed item display names not persisting.

- Changed crafted objects to immediately pickup or store in backpack when crafted if possible.
- Changed world data and save file location to use user’s special documents folder.
- Changed Clay Waterbottle to start off empty.

- New Mining system!
- New Pick item!
- New Rock resource!
- New Clay resource!

- Reduced performance overhead when creating and initializing new items.

Hi everyone,


This build features the new Roof Building System! The new Roof system is the final piece to constructing an authentic looking island hut! There’s two new types of roofing – Wood/Thatched and Clay/Brick. There’s 4 different roof pieces available so you can fill in most designs. We’ll get a guide up soon showing some examples of the different possibilities. Don’t forget that you can rotate building pieces with the Q and E keys when placing. It will be important to remember to use these keys so you can place roof pieces in the correct orientation with all the different placement possibilities. These keys can also be reassigned in the input settings.

We’ve removed the Structural Support mechanics in this build. From a developer perspective it is rewarding and cool for us to create a realistic structural support system but overall it has seemed rather unnecessary in the game. Contrary to popular belief, Stranded Deep is not intended to be a building simulator. We’ve found that players who don’t want to create unrealistic floating structures generally don’t. Those that want to build floating houses are doing no harm either. The final nail in the coffin was that the structural support system confuses and frustrates a lot of players. We get regular emails about failed placements with us pointing them to the guide. So starting from this build we’ve removed all structural support. The only minor structural support that remains is that doors on archways need to be removed before destroying the archway.

The next build will feature a new tool and a new way to gather some resources!

Have fun!

Stay Alive!
:: Beam Team
--

- Fixed occupied or invalid building connectors blocking valid connectors behind when placing.

- Removed Structural Support.
- Changed Steps placement to use rotating keys.
- Moved Wedge Foundations and Wedge Floors into Foundations and Floors crafting categories.

- New Roof building system!
- New Wood Roof Middle building piece!
- New Wood Roof Corner building piece!
- New Wood Roof Wedge Corner building piece!
- New Wood Roof Cap building piece!
- New Clay Roof Middle building piece!
- New Clay Roof Corner building piece!
- New Clay Roof Wedge Corner building piece!
- New Clay Roof Cap building piece!

Hi everyone,


This build features the new Roof Building System! The new Roof system is the final piece to constructing an authentic looking island hut! There’s two new types of roofing – Wood/Thatched and Clay/Brick. There’s 4 different roof pieces available so you can fill in most designs. We’ll get a guide up soon showing some examples of the different possibilities. Don’t forget that you can rotate building pieces with the Q and E keys when placing. It will be important to remember to use these keys so you can place roof pieces in the correct orientation with all the different placement possibilities. These keys can also be reassigned in the input settings.

We’ve removed the Structural Support mechanics in this build. From a developer perspective it is rewarding and cool for us to create a realistic structural support system but overall it has seemed rather unnecessary in the game. Contrary to popular belief, Stranded Deep is not intended to be a building simulator. We’ve found that players who don’t want to create unrealistic floating structures generally don’t. Those that want to build floating houses are doing no harm either. The final nail in the coffin was that the structural support system confuses and frustrates a lot of players. We get regular emails about failed placements with us pointing them to the guide. So starting from this build we’ve removed all structural support. The only minor structural support that remains is that doors on archways need to be removed before destroying the archway.

The next build will feature a new tool and a new way to gather some resources!

Have fun!

Stay Alive!
:: Beam Team
--

- Fixed occupied or invalid building connectors blocking valid connectors behind when placing.

- Removed Structural Support.
- Changed Steps placement to use rotating keys.
- Moved Wedge Foundations and Wedge Floors into Foundations and Floors crafting categories.

- New Roof building system!
- New Wood Roof Middle building piece!
- New Wood Roof Corner building piece!
- New Wood Roof Wedge Corner building piece!
- New Wood Roof Cap building piece!
- New Clay Roof Middle building piece!
- New Clay Roof Corner building piece!
- New Clay Roof Wedge Corner building piece!
- New Clay Roof Cap building piece!

Hi everyone,



In this update we’ve introduced a new Clay resource. This has opened up a few more crafting possibilities and helps with our goal to move towards everything being craftable in the game instead of only being able to find some critical items as loot. As a result, buckets have been replaced with the new Clay Water Bottle. The Steel tier has been replaced with a new Clay Brick tier. As awesome as the Steel tier might have looked SD is not a game like Rust, you never really needed to craft a Steel bunker... It also raised legitimate questions as to how a player would remove and transport huge chunks of steel and affix them! Yes, we still have Shipping Container Doors but they’re awesome. We still needed a top tier for progression so now the top tier is Clay Bricks. We’ve found the Clay Bricks actually feels more solid and homey than the Steel anyway which is good. The Water Distiller has been made obsolete and we’ve increased the collection rate of the Solar Still as well as fixing a small bug which had been increasing collection times of the still. We’re changing things up with the water collections side of things so bear with us while we make adjustments.

We have to emphasize that we’re not actually focusing on building at the moment. It’s more a result of getting smaller systems out of the way as we can while we work on the bigger more time-consuming systems. The next update will feature the new roofing system.

Have fun!

Stay Alive!
:: Beam Team
--

- Fixed Water Still resetting timer when re-entering an island causing much longer waits.
- Fixed Shipwrecks not spawning on Small Islands.

- Added Hammer mechanics to Tutorial.
- Added shadows to Crafting Ghost for better sense of placement depth.
- Increased Solar Still collection rate to every 2 game hours.
- Replaced Buckets with new Clay Water Bottle.
- Replaced Steel building tier with new Clay building tier.

- New Building Tier – Clay Bricks!
The Steel building tier did not fit the survival theme of Stranded Deep so it has been replaced with a Clay Brick tier. Clay can be found on islands and turned into Bricks with a Furnace and Brick station. Clay will be better introduced into the world later in development after testing.

- New Clay resource item!
- New Clay Water Bottle item!
- New Clay Bricks building item!
- New Brick Foundation building item!
- New Brick Floor building item!
- New Brick Wall building item!
- New Brick Half Wall building item!
- New Brick Windowed Wall building item!
- New Brick Arch building item!

- New Brick station!
- New Furnace station!

- New Great White Shark animal!

Hi everyone,



In this update we’ve introduced a new Clay resource. This has opened up a few more crafting possibilities and helps with our goal to move towards everything being craftable in the game instead of only being able to find some critical items as loot. As a result, buckets have been replaced with the new Clay Water Bottle. The Steel tier has been replaced with a new Clay Brick tier. As awesome as the Steel tier might have looked SD is not a game like Rust, you never really needed to craft a Steel bunker... It also raised legitimate questions as to how a player would remove and transport huge chunks of steel and affix them! Yes, we still have Shipping Container Doors but they’re awesome. We still needed a top tier for progression so now the top tier is Clay Bricks. We’ve found the Clay Bricks actually feels more solid and homey than the Steel anyway which is good. The Water Distiller has been made obsolete and we’ve increased the collection rate of the Solar Still as well as fixing a small bug which had been increasing collection times of the still. We’re changing things up with the water collections side of things so bear with us while we make adjustments.

We have to emphasize that we’re not actually focusing on building at the moment. It’s more a result of getting smaller systems out of the way as we can while we work on the bigger more time-consuming systems. The next update will feature the new roofing system.

Have fun!

Stay Alive!
:: Beam Team
--

- Fixed Water Still resetting timer when re-entering an island causing much longer waits.
- Fixed Shipwrecks not spawning on Small Islands.

- Added Hammer mechanics to Tutorial.
- Added shadows to Crafting Ghost for better sense of placement depth.
- Increased Solar Still collection rate to every 2 game hours.
- Replaced Buckets with new Clay Water Bottle.
- Replaced Steel building tier with new Clay building tier.

- New Building Tier – Clay Bricks!
The Steel building tier did not fit the survival theme of Stranded Deep so it has been replaced with a Clay Brick tier. Clay can be found on islands and turned into Bricks with a Furnace and Brick station. Clay will be better introduced into the world later in development after testing.

- New Clay resource item!
- New Clay Water Bottle item!
- New Clay Bricks building item!
- New Brick Foundation building item!
- New Brick Floor building item!
- New Brick Wall building item!
- New Brick Half Wall building item!
- New Brick Windowed Wall building item!
- New Brick Arch building item!

- New Brick station!
- New Furnace station!

- New Great White Shark animal!