Hi everyone,


This build features the return of the Quick Crafting Menu!

One of the community’s sorely missed features is back! Some players may recall when we removed the old quick crafting menu and replaced it with the larger list or book style menu. It received mixed reviews but was a necessary evil due to the sheer number of craftable combinations which resulted in the menu quickly becoming cumbersome to scroll through. The changed crafting menu was necessary and here to stay but we had always planned on reintroducing the Quick Crafting menu. The new Quick Crafting menu gets back to the roots of Stranded Deep’s crafting mechanics. It’s intended for quickly crafting objects that you know the materials for or maybe quicker crafting of the same object multiple times, like arrows. There are a lot of scenarios where you don’t need to open the large crafting menu to craft what you need.

To open the new Quick Crafting menu all you need to do is press and hold the crafting menu key [C] for a short moment, similar to the interacting mechanic. The Quick Crafting menu won’t display if you don’t have any craftable combinations from the materials in front of you or in your backpack.
If you press the crafting key [C] once without holding it, it will open the regular crafting menu. The larger style crafting menu will remain as a supplementary guide, listing all the possible crafting combos.

Similar to the large crafting menu, the Quick Crafting menu uses any tools in your hands to enable and prioritize combinations shown. For eg: if you have a Hammer equipped, the Quick Crafting menu will display any available building combinations first. Likewise, if you have a Hoe equipped farming combinations will be displayed first and so on.

The general crafting area/radius has been tightened also. The distance has been reduced and now only items in the area in front of you will count towards your crafting materials. This is important to remember, particularly for the Quick Crafting menu – If your available combos keep changing around as you move, this is more than likely why.

The Inventory now also displays an items health, durability or servings. An item’s health is represented by how ‘full’ the icon appears.

There’s also a few more smaller features like New Day Notifications and Damage Indicators that help add a bit more polish too.

Have fun!

Stay Alive!
:: Beam Team
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- Fixed Clay Foundation collider interfering with Steps placement.
- Fixed being able to craft building combos without Hammer, Hoe, etc.

- Added Inventory functionality to display health, durability or servings.
- Changed Walls, Arches, Doors, etc to allow 180 degree rotation when placing.
- Updated Icons in Crafting menus.
- Changed Crafting to only use items in the area in front of you.
- Reduced Crafting radius.


- New Quick Crafting menu!
To open the new Quick Crafting menu press and hold the crafting menu key [C] for a short moment, similar to the interacting mechanic. The Quick Crafting menu won’t display if you don’t have any craftable combinations from the materials in front of you or in your backpack. If you press the crafting key [C] once without holding it, it will open the regular crafting menu.

Similar to the large crafting menu, the Quick Crafting menu uses any tools in your hands to enable and prioritize combinations shown. For eg: if you have a Hammer equipped, the Quick Crafting menu will display any available building combinations first. Likewise, if you have a Hoe equipped farming combinations will be displayed first and so on.

- New New Day Notifications!

- New Damage Indicators!
Subtle damage indicators to help visualize where the damage is coming from.

- New Container name stencils!
When containers are renamed it is now shows their name as a themed stencil on the side of the container for easier object organization.

Hi everyone,


This build features the return of the Quick Crafting Menu!

One of the community’s sorely missed features is back! Some players may recall when we removed the old quick crafting menu and replaced it with the larger list or book style menu. It received mixed reviews but was a necessary evil due to the sheer number of craftable combinations which resulted in the menu quickly becoming cumbersome to scroll through. The changed crafting menu was necessary and here to stay but we had always planned on reintroducing the Quick Crafting menu. The new Quick Crafting menu gets back to the roots of Stranded Deep’s crafting mechanics. It’s intended for quickly crafting objects that you know the materials for or maybe quicker crafting of the same object multiple times, like arrows. There are a lot of scenarios where you don’t need to open the large crafting menu to craft what you need.

To open the new Quick Crafting menu all you need to do is press and hold the crafting menu key [C] for a short moment, similar to the interacting mechanic. The Quick Crafting menu won’t display if you don’t have any craftable combinations from the materials in front of you or in your backpack.
If you press the crafting key [C] once without holding it, it will open the regular crafting menu. The larger style crafting menu will remain as a supplementary guide, listing all the possible crafting combos.

Similar to the large crafting menu, the Quick Crafting menu uses any tools in your hands to enable and prioritize combinations shown. For eg: if you have a Hammer equipped, the Quick Crafting menu will display any available building combinations first. Likewise, if you have a Hoe equipped farming combinations will be displayed first and so on.

The general crafting area/radius has been tightened also. The distance has been reduced and now only items in the area in front of you will count towards your crafting materials. This is important to remember, particularly for the Quick Crafting menu – If your available combos keep changing around as you move, this is more than likely why.

The Inventory now also displays an items health, durability or servings. An item’s health is represented by how ‘full’ the icon appears.

There’s also a few more smaller features like New Day Notifications and Damage Indicators that help add a bit more polish too.

Have fun!

Stay Alive!
:: Beam Team
--

- Fixed Clay Foundation collider interfering with Steps placement.
- Fixed being able to craft building combos without Hammer, Hoe, etc.

- Added Inventory functionality to display health, durability or servings.
- Changed Walls, Arches, Doors, etc to allow 180 degree rotation when placing.
- Updated Icons in Crafting menus.
- Changed Crafting to only use items in the area in front of you.
- Reduced Crafting radius.


- New Quick Crafting menu!
To open the new Quick Crafting menu press and hold the crafting menu key [C] for a short moment, similar to the interacting mechanic. The Quick Crafting menu won’t display if you don’t have any craftable combinations from the materials in front of you or in your backpack. If you press the crafting key [C] once without holding it, it will open the regular crafting menu.

Similar to the large crafting menu, the Quick Crafting menu uses any tools in your hands to enable and prioritize combinations shown. For eg: if you have a Hammer equipped, the Quick Crafting menu will display any available building combinations first. Likewise, if you have a Hoe equipped farming combinations will be displayed first and so on.

- New New Day Notifications!

- New Damage Indicators!
Subtle damage indicators to help visualize where the damage is coming from.

- New Container name stencils!
When containers are renamed it is now shows their name as a themed stencil on the side of the container for easier object organization.

Hi everyone,

A new experimental version 0.29 (0.29.01) is now live with some small fixes and tweaks.

Stay Alive!
:: Beam Team
--

- Increased Player Effect times.
- Changed Player to not get Cold when in a form of Shelter.
- Adjusted Leather Waterskin materials.

- Fixed getting Cold if weather event scheduled for later on in the day.
- Fixed Camp Fire collider radius interfering with other items.
- Fixed Roof Cap collider not allowing placement.
- Fixed collision missing from underneath Clay Foundations.
- Fixed Farming Plot display name growing.
- Fixed missing audio for cutting Foliage.

Hi everyone,

A new experimental version 0.29 (0.29.01) is now live with some small fixes and tweaks.

Stay Alive!
:: Beam Team
--

- Increased Player Effect times.
- Changed Player to not get Cold when in a form of Shelter.
- Adjusted Leather Waterskin materials.

- Fixed getting Cold if weather event scheduled for later on in the day.
- Fixed Camp Fire collider radius interfering with other items.
- Fixed Roof Cap collider not allowing placement.
- Fixed collision missing from underneath Clay Foundations.
- Fixed Farming Plot display name growing.
- Fixed missing audio for cutting Foliage.

Hi everyone,


This build features new Player Effects, Plank Station, Leather Waterskin and more!

The new Plank Station is a craftable station that allows you to craft Planks from Logs by a process called riving. There’s a new Leather Waterskin which fits nicely between Coconuts and Clay Waterbottles. There’s also new Player Status Effects; You are now affected directly by the elements. You can get Sunburn by going extended periods without shelter or shade. Likewise, at night you will get Cold if you don’t have a Camp Fire to keep you warm. Effects like Sunburn and Cold are pre-cursors to more serious illnesses. You won’t experience any immediate negative side effects from these effects but they serve as a warning. Cold will develop into the Flu which will persist for a few game hours even after you are warm again, draining various vitals. Similarly, Sunburn will develop into Heatstroke. It will be important to manage your vitals during those game hours if you contract these effects. There’s different visual and audio cues for each effect and the Watch will also beep if you contract a new status effect. The Watch also displays your current status effects on a third screen, just in case you’ve missed the audio and visual cues. These effect will be incorporated more fully with building tiers in a future update where lower tiers will offer less protection from the elements.

There’s also a new feature that has been sorely missing – a Game Over screen. It will display the cause of death and days survived before returning to the main screen. We’ve also added a proper death animation to make it more obvious also.

Have fun!
May the 4th be with you..

Stay Alive!
:: Beam Team
--

- Changed Watch to display the player’s status effects on additional screen.
- Changed Sail and Motor placement to use rotating keys.
- Increased Clay Waterbottle servings from 4 to 5.
- Added new Main Menu soundtrack.


- New Plank Station!

- New Leather Waterskin item!

- New Player Effects!

- New Game Over Screen.

- New Death animation.

Hi everyone,


This build features new Player Effects, Plank Station, Leather Waterskin and more!

The new Plank Station is a craftable station that allows you to craft Planks from Logs by a process called riving. There’s a new Leather Waterskin which fits nicely between Coconuts and Clay Waterbottles. There’s also new Player Status Effects; You are now affected directly by the elements. You can get Sunburn by going extended periods without shelter or shade. Likewise, at night you will get Cold if you don’t have a Camp Fire to keep you warm. Effects like Sunburn and Cold are pre-cursors to more serious illnesses. You won’t experience any immediate negative side effects from these effects but they serve as a warning. Cold will develop into the Flu which will persist for a few game hours even after you are warm again, draining various vitals. Similarly, Sunburn will develop into Heatstroke. It will be important to manage your vitals during those game hours if you contract these effects. There’s different visual and audio cues for each effect and the Watch will also beep if you contract a new status effect. The Watch also displays your current status effects on a third screen, just in case you’ve missed the audio and visual cues. These effect will be incorporated more fully with building tiers in a future update where lower tiers will offer less protection from the elements.

There’s also a new feature that has been sorely missing – a Game Over screen. It will display the cause of death and days survived before returning to the main screen. We’ve also added a proper death animation to make it more obvious also.

Have fun!
May the 4th be with you..

Stay Alive!
:: Beam Team
--

- Changed Watch to display the player’s status effects on additional screen.
- Changed Sail and Motor placement to use rotating keys.
- Increased Clay Waterbottle servings from 4 to 5.
- Added new Main Menu soundtrack.


- New Plank Station!

- New Leather Waterskin item!

- New Player Effects!

- New Game Over Screen.

- New Death animation.

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.