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!

• 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.

• 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.

• 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!)

• 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.

• 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.

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.

Debug Tools

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

• 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.

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!


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 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.



Maps will now fade and deteriorate like before, but now look a whole lot spiffier when doing so.




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.








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.




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!




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.




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!

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.

• 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).

• 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.).

• 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.

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

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).

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.


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


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.


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+".


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.


If you didn't already watch it, Splattercat made another video on Wayward for this new update and new year:



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!


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:





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.


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


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


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!

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

• 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.

• 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)

• 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.

• 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.

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

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.

Troposphere

• Fixed tall doodads not rendering correctly. (Thanks ___𝕞𝕒𝕝𝕠___!)

Debug Tools

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

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!

• 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.

• 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.

• 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!)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

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

• Added a /backup chat command for dedicated servers.

• 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.

• 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!)

• 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).

• 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.

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

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.

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.

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

• 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.

• 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)

• 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 𝕽𝖆𝖓𝖉!)

• 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.

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

Reincarnate

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

Troposphere

• 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.

Debug Tools

• 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.

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/

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

• 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.

• 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 𝕽𝖆𝖓𝖉!)
• 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)

• 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.

• 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)

• 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.

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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Debug Tools

• 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.