0.4.0 Early Access has arrived! Today marks a major milestone in the development of Jaws of Extinction. Alongside going live on the Steam store, this update includes the experimental multiplayer feature and a collection of fixes, improvements and additions to the game.

To everyone who has kept up with development up to this point, we would like to give a heartfelt thank you to those who have given their support. If you are discovering Jaws of Extinction for the first time - a huge welcome!

The experimental multiplayer features allows you and a friend to fight to survive together. The multiplayer element of the game is relatively new and will be developed extensively over the coming months to complete any presently missing features. Our time in Early Access will allow us to complete and polish the multiplayer experience, eventually allowing for up to four-player co-op.

• New and improved tutorials for new players
• Fixed saving and loading issues for various objects
• Improved menus for various interactable objects
• Fixes to allow players to pick up objects that would have been otherwise permanently placed.

Developer Comment:
It would be advisable to start a fresh game as some mechanics, craftables and items may be bugged or not be available if using out of date game save files.

• Experimental multiplayer mode - two player co-op in Survivor mode.
• Added new tutorials for swimming, infected, crafting, disturbances and sickness.
• Added new SFX when tutorials are triggered.
• The 711 building upstairs apartment now has interior furniture.

• Rebalanced AKM reload sound volume
• Hitch and Trough now use updated radial menu
• Disabled temperamental body physics, which would regularly cause problems, especially in low performance situations.
• On-screen tutorials will now only display if playing from Driftwood starting scenario.
• Updated tutorials display visuals.
• Improved the entrance to Sen’s basement to make it easier to get out of the water when exiting the basement while swimming.
• Can now pick up Hobo Stoves. Stove must be clear before it can be taken.
• Can now pick up Small and Large Storage Containers. Containers need to be empty to be taken.

• Fixed a second pair of hands being visible in first-person if reloading and holding [RMB].
• Fixed arrows not appearing in the quiver until nocking the first arrow
• Fixed tethered horses being no longer tethered after loading a saved game.
• Fixed candles not saving and loading.
• Fixed scale issues with candle
• Fixed sleeping in a sleeping bag causing the character to wake up on a permanent slant.
• Fixed Basic Wash Station having a greyed out shower option, but still allowing the character to shower next to the unit.
• Fixed heartshot effects not running when enemies are heartshot.
• Fixed pressing ‘Continue’ on the title screen causing sleeping at beds to not work.
• Fixed loaded weapons which were not in the players hands losing their ammo when the character dies.
• Corrected spelling of "Warrant" on the quest noticeboard
• Fixed camera jitter which happens when using [Alt] to freelook
• Fixed various placeable objects which could not be picked up again
• Compost bins now save
• Tanning racks now save
• Farming plots now save

• Game is missing left-handed support.
• Swapping an item with a Jerry Can in the fuel slot on the quad causes the other item to be placed in the fuel slot.
• When LED light runs out of battery, it unequips but does not re-enable belt chem-light.
• NPCs can have ‘black beams’ coming out of their eyes when running the game using FXAA

It’s almost time! In just a few hours, Jaws of Extinction will go LIVE into Early Access. Join our Discord to see the latest discussions as we enter Early Access (discord.gg/playjoegame).


8:00am - CDT - Houston, Texas
9:00am - EDT - Tennessee
10:30pm - ACST - Adelaide
2:00pm - BST - UK

If you haven't wishlisted Jaws of Extinction already, you can click on the button to get notified the moment the game goes live!


As a reminder, you can take a look at the timetable below to see what time the game unlocks in different countries.

8:00am - CDT - Houston, Texas
9:00am - EDT - Tennessee
10:30pm - ACST - Adelaide
2:00pm - BST - UK

It’s nearly here! Jaws of Extinction is right on the brink of entering Early Access.


At this time (just over three days hence) the game will become a fully fledged Early Access title and become available for everyone on the Steam Store.

Take a look at the timetable below to see what time the game unlocks in different countries.

8:00am - CDT - Houston, Texas
9:00am - EDT - Tennessee
10:30pm - ACST - Adelaide
2:00pm - BST - UK

Once you’ve scribbled the time and date in your calendar, come join us in our Discord channel (discord.gg/playjoegame). See you there!

0.3.11 has arrived! Introducing the new farming system - maintain lovingly grown plots of fruit and vegetables to sustain yourself. Once your plots are grown, they offer a bounty of food. However, starting from scratch isn’t always easy. You’ll need advanced materials, such as compost to grow with and glue to construct the frames.
Additionally, this update aims at improving the experience for new players by guiding them to play in Driftwood mode first. All starting scenarios then unlock after playing through Sen’s quest.
As usual, the update features quality of life improvements, bug fixes, and more.

Developer Comment:
It would be advisable to start a fresh game as some mechanics, craftables and items may be bugged or not be available if using out of date game save files.

After constructing your base, it is time to start being self-sufficient and live off the land as nature intended. With two different sizes of farming plot and a basic composter, create fertiliser to use with your farming plots and grow fruit and vegetables to trade with or consume for your own survival.



Make compost with natural resources found around the world. All you need is some piles of leaves, wet mud (dirt) and poop! That's right, we now have a use for all those horse puckies generated from your faithful steed and any other horse tied up at your local safezone.



Planted crops usually take around 3 in-game days to fully grow with a healthy helping of compost and water. If your plot does run out of water don't worry too much, similarly to rain-collectors the plots will collect water when the heavens open up and provide a nice drink for your crops.



We have tried making all new interactable structures to be as easy and understandable as we can. Using the new wheel menu, add the resources to the station with a simple click of the button and the menu will show your levels. If the levels get too low, a pulsing icon will display above the station indicating something is wrong.



Remember to keep all your levels topped up and harvest crops for more seeds every now and then and you will soon be the next Leslie Tiller of Eden Nadir.



When new players start the game, they will now be asked to begin the game in Driftwood mode playing as Amy. This is to ensure that any new players get to experience the game with some level of support.

All other starting scenarios and available characters will unlock after completing Sen’s starting quest for the first time.

• Added stealth takedown camera.
• Added small and large farming plots.
• Added a large assortment of fruit/vegetable seeds and crop plants. Pick up crops and harvest them from your inventory for a chance of getting seeds and fruit and veg.
• Added character lock until Sen’s Wreck quest has been completed at least once.
• Added start-scenario lock until Sen’s Wreck quest has been completed at least once.
• Seeds and crops/plants have been added to traders' trade data.
• Seeds and crops/plants can be found in lockers and wooden crates around the world.
• Ammo can now be recycled into brass, scrap metal and black powder.

• Dropped loose ammo now has a more visible mesh.
• Shower now only undresses the character if they have soap to shower in the first place.
• Updated various interactable objects to use improved radial menu interface.
• Partial item balancing in loot, crafting and recycling.
• Improved character's sleeping position and camera location when using a bed or sleeping bag.

• Fixed shower causing issues for Sophia by setting the incorrect outfit.
• Fixed bee nests not being harvistable.
• Fixed Flashlight not working except on a saved game.
• Fixed inventory filters by weight not disabling when scrapping.
• Fixed not being able to craft a bucket.
• Fixed small farming plot not returning the cooking pot
• Fixed not being able to sleep at a craftable bed, due to cursor not displaying and no keyboard focus.
• Fixed global settings for building items not working (e.g. raising buildings, removing plots, etc).
• Fixed footsteps not working correctly in houses.
• Fixed occasional issues causing character to disappear when sleeping in a bed.

• Game is missing left-handed support.
• Swapping an item with a Jerry Can in the fuel slot on the quad causes the other item to be placed in the fuel slot.
• When LED light runs out of battery, it unequips but does not re-enable belt chem-light.
• NPCs can have ‘black beams’ coming out of their eyes when running the game using FXAA

Hi everyone. The JoE team have just updated the roadmap to give an up-to-date summary of what you can expect over the next few months of development. Take a look at the image below to see what fancy new features you can expect to see moving forward into the future.


Click on the image above (stay on Steam) or here, to see an enlarged version of the roadmap on our official website http://playjoe.gg/roadmap/


Secondly, we would like to take the opportunity to share our newly updated FAQs to help answer any questions you might have about the game's early access stage. Steam’s official Early Access FAQs have predefined questions, so this post will cover a few extra questions we think you might want to know. If there’s anything you are unsure of not covered by the FAQs, please feel free to drop us your questions in our Discord (https://discord.gg/playgoegame).

In May 2019, we temporarily launched an alpha prototype of the game on to Steam alongside our fundraising Kickstarter campaign. Following the fundraising period, we intentionally closed the store page because the game was not sufficiently developed for the majority of people to enjoy (this is why our storefront says May 2019). Now, three years later, Jaws of Extinction is ready to start it’s journey into Early Access. The game has developed massively during its time in Alpha, and we are now confident in sharing our progress with everybody. There is still much to do during Early Access, but the game is at a stage where we feel that the majority of people playing will have a fun and memorable experience.

Early Access includes the basic version of the game and 4 player co-op, which will be only available in an experimental state to start with. Almost all of the core mechanics are available with some systems still being developed.

Some of the features already in the game are: base building, hunting, cooking, swimming, trading and traders, firearms and basic melee combat, hostile and friendly NPCs, quests, vehicles, crafting and harvesting.

The playable area currently consists of approximately a fifth of the map. Since Eden-Nadir is so large, this is actually a massive area already. The world will continue to grow over time as gameplay mechanics become more complete, meaning we can concentrate on filling out the remainder of the map.

We approximate that Early Access will be around 2 - 3 years from the launch of Multiplayer, as we are aware that JoE is a very ambitious game for such a very small team.

Early Access is about implementing the fundamental game mechanics and making the game stable and enjoyable to play. Once the game is ready to leave Early Access, we expect the gameplay mechanics to be well refined and the world to be complete.


Yes, we are selling JoE at a reduced price during Early Access because we don’t consider it fair to charge people the full price when they don’t get the full game yet. When the game is finished we will charge full price.

DLC will be available at multiple points during development to help support the game and to give a little something back to the community helping us to grow the game. We only plan on aesthetic content and character outfits of which will NOT include any kind of pay-to-win aspects. DLC content such as world expansions will be considered after full release.

Your game saves will typically work following an update, although as gameplay features are updated, loaded games may cause those features to not work as expected in some cases.

We already have a flourishing community on Discord (https://discord.gg/playjoegame), Steam and our social media pages. We encourage our players to share and discuss their thoughts with us and a lot of the feedback we have received has been taken on board; some of it even shaping the game. We love hearing what everyone has to say and if it is constructive we will find a way to use it.

Feedback and comments are always most welcome. Please visit our Discord (https://discord.gg/playjoegame) to get in touch. Additionally, you can press [F1] in game to fill out a form to send us specific issues you have found.

0.3.10 has arrived! This latest update is a mix of fancy new additions and fixes.
Stealth kills are back! Use stealth to sneak behind your enemies and take them out with deadly precision.
Back at your base, be sure to try out the new buildable Tanning Rack. Producing leather can be hard work, so make use of your Tanning Rack to convert your hard-earned hide into good quality leather - ideal for crafting.

While hunting though, beware. New, foul, spore-infested nests have been sighted across Hanouten. The new nests have been designed to match into their environment. For example, you may now find a nest on the side of the road where fungal spores have overtaken the back of a van. Keep your eyes peeled!

Developer Comment:
It would be advisable to start a fresh game as some mechanics, craftables and items may be bugged or not be available if using out of date game saves.

• Sophia Riggs is now available to Backers who have Early Access to the third protagonist.
• Stealth kill takedowns can now be performed if you get close enough behind an bipedal enemy and press F.
• The earpiece slot has now been replaced with a knife as the earpiece did not do anything. Knives will need to be recovered from the player's belongings if the character dies.
• Facemasks and flashlights now auto equip.
• Exclusive NEW outfit and skin DLC “Creator Pack” has been added. Initially it will be available to participating content creators, who will each have a limited number of keys to distribute to their fans. If you have a favourite content creator that you would like to see involved, let us know, and we will reach out to them.
UI
• Updated main menu with new banners.

• Improved access to the handgun in Sen's vehicle.
• Doubled the size of Sen's keys to improve visibility.


• Added burnt fish item. Fish no longer disappear when burned on a campfire/stove.
• Added craftable leather tanning rack to convert animal pelts to leather for crafting.
• Improvised backpack now only requires cloth, sticks and twine to craft.
• Leather backpack now requires 5 leather instead of 10 animal pelts.
• Baseball bats now require leather instead of animal pelts.
• Chemistry bench now requires a scaffolding kit, can of lubricant, blow torch and 150 mechanical parts.
• Engineering bench now requires a scaffolding kit, empty propane bottle, hairdryer and 100 mechanical parts.
• Large water collectors now collect water faster than its predecessors.
• Water butts can now be placed down and collect rain water on their own, with a lower capacity and longer fill time than water collectors
• A directional arrow has been added to placables where it is difficult to determine the front of the item, like chests, beds, hobo stove and so on.
NPCs
• Horde now resets on player death.
Environment
• Added vehicle blockade to the road out of Hanouten.
• Added a new style of infected nest, infected will emerge from the back of a truck styled like a nest.
• Improved holes in the landscape that may have caused the player to get stuck.
• Improved visuals of Hanouten basketball court.

• Fixed equipped flashlight clipping with camera while aiming in first person.
• Fixed respawning after being underwater causing character to respawn losing oxygen while on land.
• Fixed O2 meter staying on screen after drowning.
• Fixed not being able to fill cooking pots or buckets from water collectors.
• Fixed campfire attachments reappearing on campfire after saving and loading when an attachment was removed before saving.
• Fixed cooking meat and fish on the grill at the same time allowing more than 4 items on the grill, producing endless cooked meat.
• Fixed loot containers not respawning after 3 days.
• Fixed picking up more items that you already have a stack of, causing the notification to report only getting 1 item instead of the correct value.
• Fixed location where players could get stuck on the beach near Nomad start.
• Fixed being able to spam [F] to interact with rubbish bins which would make the sound loop.
• Fixed issue with outfit mods duplicating when changing from underwear to an outfit with mods.

• Game is missing left-handed support.
• Swapping an item with a Jerry Can in the fuel slot on the quad causes the other item to be placed in the fuel slot.
• When LED light runs out of battery, it unequips but does not re-enable belt chem-light.
• NPCs can have ‘black beams’ coming out of their eyes when running the game using FXAA.

0.3.9 has arrived! Grab your construction helmet - because you’re going to need it. This update features the introduction of a new player building system. Plan out your new home with frames, then build the structure up with resources from around the world.

Trystan has arrived on Eden-Nadir! Everyone will now have access to the latest protagonist available to them now. Trystan is a boxer, so while Amy may have a slight speed advantage, Tystan makes up for it with sustained stamina.

This update comes packed with additional fixes and improvements. Notably, the patch will make a significant improvement to CPU related performance, which was a difficult performance bottleneck for many.

Developer Comment:
It would be advisable to start a fresh game as some mechanics may be bugged if using out of date game saves.

• Added "NutCracker" outfit skin to the outfit system.
• Player character outfits are now DLC ready allowing for skins and outfits to be unlocked via Steam keys.
• Trystan protagonist now available to everyone (selecting Trystan will only allow Nomad starting location).
• Player building system version 2.0 is now available, craft and equip a Crafting Mallet to enable.
• Updated Trystan and Amy arms when using melee weapons in first person.
• Added spore sickness system, requires nest harvested biomass to cure at the moment.
• New quiver and arrow mesh on the back of the character.
• Wet footstep sound effects are back. When it rains footsteps can cause splashing sounds.

• Loot interaction icons improved. The icon will appear differently when a container has been looted, or if it is empty. For items, the icon will show if you will receive an integrity penalty when picking the item up.

• Made various quality of life improvements to the broken pipe in Sen's flooded basement.
• New Driftwood quest added when spawning in the medical centre.
• Soap now only spawns at wash stations in Driftwood mode.

• Collectable empty oil drum (barrel)
• Craftable Hobo Stove now available
• Sleeping Bags can be used with Burning Oil Barrels, safe camp campfires and crafted campfires.
• Sleeping Bags no longer despawn after use.
• Improved placement of items, such as sleeping bags and workbenches.
• Made new craftable and placeable defences such as spikes.
• Enabled craftable beds which can be slept at.
• Respirator boxes now require security cards.
• Balanced item recycling weights and quantities.
• Scaffolding kits have been reduced to 100kg and now scraps to pipes and planks.
• Facemasks, body armor and flashlights no longer reduce in condition from general movement. Condition is only affected by damage or when used.
• Crafting level is now more visible in the crafting display panel.
• Facemasks can now be repaired with new filter items.
• Mechanical Parts now require 100 x Electronics instead of 1 x Spark Plug to craft. When crafting, it produces a quantity of 50 Mechanical Parts.
• Both Smithy and Chem Bench are available to craft. They still do not have all the crafting recipes available but you can make ammo with them.
• Crafting cloth time reduced from 15 seconds to 5 seconds
• Arrows can now be picked up via the vicinity feature
• Improved being able to pick up arrows
• Fish and Crabbing Nets can now be crafted in the workbench and placed in shallow water to harvest fish and crabs.
• Improved Campfire / Fire Pit menu visuals and ease of use.
• Campfires can now cook fish and can empty and fill dirty and clean water.
• Empty water bottles can now be filled with dirty water from a water source like a lake or the ocean.
• Horse Manure no longer causes negative integrity when picked up.
• Showers now automatically change the character into their underwear
• Updated dirty water bottle mesh and inventory icon.
• Doubled the size of bars of soap, so they are easier to see.

• Small military crates have been balanced to only give ammo.
• Scrap plastic has been added to more loot containers, so they now have a higher chance of spawning.
• Amount of logs given by trees has been increased
• Saplings, bushes and plants can now be harvested with an axe giving an increased amount of resources compared to harvesting by hand.
• Machete harvesting amounts increased.
• Fish traps in water can yield small edible fish and natural twine

• Traders will now only sell tiered weapons to players with good integrity ratings.
• Trader weapon prices updated.
• Trader NPCs now have idle facial animations (when not interacting with player)
• Traders will now only trade high tier weapons if the character matches or exceeds the required reputation of the trader or safe-zone.
• Trader items will display the reputation required to purchase.
• Hazmat enemies are now faster to detect the player and are faster in combat
• Improved line of sight trace responsible for showing and hiding overhead NPC alert widgets
• Crocodile land-attack bites now do 60-70 damage.

• Additional work done to North Cross Bridges and safe zone.
• Road bend on the way into Cross Bridges from Hanouten has had a slight face lift ready for Cross Bridges final sweep.
• New radio tower and tunnel added between Hanouten and Crossbridges
• Road textures updated
• Added a new POI to the beach "LifeGuard Hut".
• Updated the Dry Dock with additional fences.
• Improved weather rain particles to look more present in the scene

• Updates to mesh LODs and draw distances.
• Huge CPU overheads have been eliminated and has increased overall performance.
• Optimised render distances for items by setting items on the ground floor to have a higher render distance than items on the upper floor.
• Increased the Texture Streaming Pool from 4Gb to 6Gb to see if this decreases load on GPUs.

• Fixed being able to loot through walls and improved protection against other related exploits
• Fixed not being able to pick up spike traps.
• Fixed issue preventing character from mounting/dismounting vehicles correctly when on top of a player built structure
• Fixed not being able to steer a vehicle when parts are damaged or out of fuel.
• Fixed buildable interior walls not having collision
• Fixed issues where nest spawned NPCs would never despawn correctly
• Fixed ladder animation not playing when climbing ladders.
• Fixed not being able to fill bottles, buckets and pots with water from a water source.
• Fixed empty water bottles not saying Fill.
• Fixed being able to skip timer on filling bottles, buckets and pots by right clicking on the item.
• Fixed bird nests only providing a very small amount of feathers. Now yields between 5 and 20 feathers.
• Fixed missing icons from cooking grill.
• Fixed Sen’s quest not activating on the east side in Survivor mode.
• Fixed issue preventing multiple player built structures.
• Fixed Runner telling people to talk to Kenneth when you start on "Survivor" difficulty.
• Fixed Weapons casting shadows on flashlight.
• Fixed stack of empty icons appearing constantly on screen.
• Fixed exploit on theft from containers in safe-zones by holding [F] to take all items.
• Fixed gamestart screen needing a cursor to be active. Hitting [Escape] to gain focus would cause the game to hang.
• Fixed walls showing interior wall mesh when removed and re added.
• Fixed sleeping bags not persisting after sleeping.
• Fixed NVGs bugging out the head in first person.
• Fixed removal of NVGs not re-enabling the flashlight.
• Fixed some nests not burning out.
• Fixed Baseball Bats and Pickaxe having the axe icon on weapon HUD.
• Tentative fix to prevent situations where characters who have been set on fire from NPCs may immediately die when in range of another heat source.
• Fixed first person view Amy still using her old arms, with the long fingernails.
• Fixed weapons casting shadows with a torch.
• Fixed getting XP for looting own death bag.
• Fixed losing integrity when looting your own death bag in safe zones.
• Fixed flashlight being usable after death.
• Fixed interior walls disappearing and empty exterior walls reappearing on saving/loading.
• Fixed jerry cans bought from traders not working to siphon fuel.
• Fixed items not removing resources when being repaired.
• Fixed issue where Trystan's wetsuit outfit was broken.
• Fixed nests not activating particle systems correctly.
• Fixed some foliage opening up the inventory when harvesting.
• Fixed incorrect icons showing above harvestable vehicles.
• Fixed not being able to climb out of water onto a ledge such as around boat houses, jetties and boat docks.
• Fixed floating tents in the Nomad safe camp.
• Fixed draw distance culling on a number of meshes that had no draw distance values.
• Fixed losing integrity when using vendor machines to buy coffee.
• Fixed hotbar contents not persisting on save/load.
• Fixed outfits sometimes not being wearable.
• Fixed loading a savegame causing the game to load as a different character.

• Game is missing left-handed support.
• Swapping an item with a Jerry Can in the fuel slot on the quad causes the other item to be placed in the fuel slot.
• When LED light runs out of battery, it unequips but does not re-enable belt chem-light.
• NPCs can have ‘black beams’ coming out of their eyes when running the game using FXAA.

We would like to thank everyone that has actively been involved in phase I and II of the Steam play test and helped in the development and testing of the latest update 0.3.9a.

In the final week before we open the Steam Store for Early Access we have sent out our final batch of invites to Phase III of the Playtest. Trystan is now available and we have the first pass of our new building system.



This week will also be the last chance to complete our user feedback survey to unlock the exclusive Outfit Skin. So far the feedback has been incredibly helpful, and we’d like to thank you all for participating. The survey will be available until the end of the playtest, and keys will be sent out once it is finalised.

We would like to thank everyone that has actively been involved in the first phase of the Steam play test and helped in the development and testing of the latest update 0.3.8a.

In the light of the new update, we are now opening the doors for more testers who have been waiting in the background. Phase 2 will help us develop and test 0.3.9a where we will see the return of the building system, the release of our second protagonist Trystan and more leading up to our third and final stage of play testing.



We have put together a unique Outfit Skin as a thank you to the people who have been helping us test and report bugs in our Discord, Steam forums and the built-in bug reporter in the Jaws of Extinction application.

The Free Skin is exclusive to testers / owners that are actively testing our game, and can be earned by providing additional feedback via the survey link on the main menu.