Hello witches,

Today’s update brings something very special - a completely new zone, the Desert! New creatures, resources and riddles are waiting for you!

We also added a new, fun gameplay feature: Photography. After completing Rebecca’s quest, you will receive a Camera and be able to take photos of anything you find interesting. Ask around: perhaps someone else could make use of your photography skills?

We have also recognized that some players have issues related to controls due to specific keyboards that they’re using. As such, from now on, Keybinds are available.

With this patch and previous ones, we have added a staggering amount of content to the base release, and there’s still more to come before the full launch. As such, in accordance with Early Access information on the Store page, we will be increasing the game’s price slightly next month. Because of that, now is the BEST time to buy the game!

The full patch notes are as follows:

• Climbing and getting on a broom at the same time no longer causes the character model to glitch
  
• Removing weeds with a Sickle no longer blocks interaction with the removed spot
  
• Canceling crafting now returns a correct quality of ingredients
  
• Fixed a crash that would occur if you were on a ladder at 4 AM
  
• The player will no longer receive random items after loading the game
  
• Plants that aren’t fully grown cannot be harvested anymore
  
• It is no longer possible to scroll while using a build tool
  
• Fixed the display of seasons in the Compendium
  
• Fixed Danika’s spawn time
  
• Tzoru no longer get stuck running in one spot
  
• Tzoru race now ends correctly
  
• Attempting to edit an object will no longer teleport the player
  
• Moved one of the Beehives on the world map, it was too high and honey couldn’t be harvested
  
• Fixed the display of commissions
  
• It’s no longer possible to use items while getting on a Tzoru
  
• Minor fixes to editing objects
  
• Interacting with trees will no longer cause Abrill to become stuck
  
• Dish descriptions no longer disappear after loading the game
  
• All chests on the island can now be opened
  
• Incubation will no longer produce only female Cuflow
  
• Fixed spawn points on the farm to make sure that animals don’t spawn under textures
  
• Minor fixes to Charna’s quest
  
• Multiple controller related UI fixes
  
• Compass will now correctly display NPC icons if more than one are in the interior
  
• Granola Crackers are no longer called Skewers
  
• Fixed recipe names during discovery
  
• Statues in one of the riddles will no longer stack on top of each other
  
• Literal trash is no longer an acceptable neutral gift
  
• Tulips now adhere to season growth rules
  
• Cuflow no longer sink in the floor
  
• Purchasing Tzoru will now correctly update the amount of money you have

• Added a new zone: the Desert
  
• Added new plants, resources, amulets, potions and creatures
  
• Added a new gameplay mechanic: Photography
  
• Added new quests related to Photography (Rebecca and Witowir)
  
• Added new commissions related to Photography
  
• Added keyboard Key Bindings
  
• Added Photography Mode and Photo Album UI
  
• Added Quality, Balance and Performance mode for Steam Deck
  
• Added a new quest for Frita
  
• Added a new level of Tool upgrades (required to obtain new, rare resources)
  
• Increased stack limit from 20 to 100
  
• You can now take any number of items from a stack instead of all of them
  
• Items in chests can now be split
  
• It is now possible to quickly add multiple items to the chest
  
• Added new map markers
  
• Paffti shrines now have an exclamation mark if they have an item to pick up
  
• All seeds now have descriptions which include grow time, seasons and harvest amount
  
• Character quests now are forshadowed in character compendium page on relation level UI
  
• The game now detects which items in your inventory cannot be used for crafting and marks them with a red background
  
• Cauldron can now be moved
  
• You can now grow 13 different kinds of flowers
  
• Added Wild Altars on the map; unlocking them allows fast travel

• Adjusted Furnace so it works more like a Cauldron
  
• Added food preparing table
  
• Reduced Spicy Roots drop rate
  
• Dyes are now less expensive
  
• Updated Dig Spot model and texture
  
• Adjustments to Bitter Gentian harvest and farming
  
• Improved the hand placement of potion models
  
• Added two new navigation buttons to the chest
  
• Adjustments to Cassandra’s and Rogost’s stores
  
• Increased the size of some mushrooms
  
• Adjusted Pickaxe upgrade prices
  
• Added an “out of water” prompt for the watering can
  
• Updated recycler, quern and artisan table icons
  
• Added Abrill’s coordinates on the map
  
• Higher quality items no longer generate poor returns when used in the Extractor
  
• Adjustments to waypoints display on the compass
  
• Updated Hedgemole Spikes model
  
• Hanging multiple chandeliers will no longer cause performance issues
  
• Added a prompt that informs the player about cooldown time on gifts
  
• Adjustments to tourist models while they’re laying down
  
• Added a prompt to “Hold” function while having a full inventory
  
• Updated UI to distinguish failed commissions
  
• Added a prompt after fully upgrading a Cauldron
  
• Adjusted snow textures on bridges, stairs and planks

We hope these changes will make your stay on the Fern Island more comfortable. Rest assured that your feedback is always heard, and is an important part of our workflow for future updates. Thank you for all activity so far, reporting issues and hanging out with us in Discord. We couldn’t have done this without you!


Best Regards,

Enjoy Studio team

Hotfix
Restart the game and steam to pick it up!

Hello everyone,

Happy post-BG3-launch day! Thank you so much for all the love and support you’ve shown Baldur’s Gate 3 – it’s been surreal to finally launch this game after six years in development, and an incredible honour to watch so many of you play and discover what the team has built. We hope you’ll enjoy BG3 for many months – even years – to come.

All that said, Hotfix #1 is coming in fresh: today’s update takes care of several crashes, bugs and much more.

We’ve been reading your reports on issues with saving your game, and have found a culprit – our cross-saves. Bearing in mind this will only be a useful feature come September 6 when the PlayStation 5 version launches (and beyond), we’ve decided to disable it for now to allow us to solve the issue in the interim. You shouldn’t notice anything in-game and Steam Cloud saves are unaffected by this change.

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to report these issues to us. As always, reach out to our support team if you run into trouble.

And please keep showing us your Tavs and their adventures in the Forgotten Realms! We’ve been waiting for so long to see what you get up to. 🙏

• Fixed possibly getting stuck in a dialogue in the first confrontation with a major boss.
  
• Fixed a rare issue where player character states would not update properly after dying.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur related to one of Astarion's cinematic dialogues in the endgame.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when loading an old savegame while at Last Light.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when using the brain reader in the Colony.
  
• Fixed an issue that could cause you to get stuck in a loading screen when loading a savegame after dying.
  
• Fixed a blocker during Character Creation preventing you from progressing if you chose a Zariel tiefling as your Guardian.
  
• Fixed a potential crash triggered by the light system.
  
• Added an error message to prevent crashes being caused by mods when starting the game.
  
• Disabled Larian Account cross-saves temporarily to solve an issue blocking loads and saves. Steam cross-saves are unaffected.
  
• Fixed a startup crash with the Steam API.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when quick-loading a game while a container or corpse was open for looting.
  
• Fixed a crash that could happen if an item unlocked a spell for a game entity without stats.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when switching a race or a class in Character Creation.
  
• Fixed potential crashes that could occur when closing screens like the options menu or when ending dialogues.
  
• Fixed a potential crash when an enemy tries to use the Motivator during combat in the Steel Watch Foundry.
  
• Fixed a blocker that could occur if you choose to attack the Emperor during a dialogue after you side with him.
  
• Fixed a crash in PhysX.

• Players will now correctly join cinematic dialogues that require all players to be present if they were listening in previously.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to listen in on private dialogues using the context menu.
  
• Fixed an issue causing players to get stuck and not be able to join a dialogue if someone else is already in a dialogue.

• Fixed hair physics on drow and elf male strong body types.
  
• Fixed an issue causing phase spiders to skip their turn in combat if they're standing on a web that's been destroyed.
  
• Fixed an issue with dice rolling, where retrying could cause the roll to fail if you were applying bonuses and clicking really fast.
  
• Duplicate spells no longer appear on followers' hotbars and you can no longer customise their radial menus. (Important to note: followers are not companions or full party members.)
  
• Fixed Dark Urge randomisation in Character Creation for non-white dragonborn characters.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing you from interacting with Withers in one of the camp locations.

• Fixed issues in cinematic dialogues when listening in.
  
• Fixed an issue causing the character models for half-orcs, dragonborn, and half-elves to not update correctly when unequipping armour in the character sheet.
  
• Fixed some issues with prepared spells during Level Up, when multiclassing.
  
• Hid the version number during dialogues.
  
• Fixed splitscreen cinematics showing sampling garbage.

• Fixed audio issues with grunts, shouts, and moans across gameplay and cinematics.
  
• Fixed a line being cut off when speaking to the Restless Myconid in the Underdark.
  
• Removed a clicking sound during the credits.
  
• Fixed audio levels in a dialogue with Mayrina in the Lower City.

• Fixed a bug causing textures to appear in bright, neon colours.
  
• Fixed a splitscreen issue causing characters to remain invisible after a dialogue ends.
  
• Fixed an aspect ratio issue when FSR is active during splitscreen.
  
• Fixed surface texture details not updating when changing Texture Detail in the game video options.

• Fixed characters looking in the wrong direction in a dialogue with Mizora.
  
• Fixed the Emperor turning backwards in an endgame cinematic.
  
• Fixed a camera issue with the deep rothé.
  
• Fixed camera and lighting issues with the strange ox at Last Light.
  
• Fixed a blank screen in the cinematic when you put on one of Auntie Ethel's masks.
  
• The nautiloid crash scene will now play even if your avatar is dead and a companion used the transponder instead.
  
• Fixed Jaheira's youngest daughter clipping in a cinematic dialogue.
  
• Fixed an issue with clipping characters in a cinematic dialogue in the Colony.
  
• Ravengard is no longer missing from a dialogue involving all the allies you've made.
  
• Fixed the avatar's head popping into place in a dialogue in the Colony.
  
• You no longer look like you're walking through Sceleritas Fel in the Temple of Bhaal.
  
• Fixed Cazador's staff disappearing in a cinematic dialogue.
  
• Fixed a camera that was zoomed in too far on a wolf.
  
• Fixed Lae'zel's head popping in a dialogue with Vlaakith.
  
• Fixed issues with animations, clipping, and camera shots in the romantic scene in the House of Hope.
  
• Fixed Orin and her victim clipping into an altar.
  
• Fixed a blocked camera in the dialogue with Lunkbug and Laridda.
  
• Fixed companions disappearing the morning after the Dark Urge gives into a particular Urge.
  
• Fixed lighting issues in a scene with Z'rell at Moonrise Towers.
  
• Fixed Araj's hands clipping when talking to her in the Lower City.
  
• Fixed some companions being visible in the background of dialogues where they shouldn't be.
  
• Fixed some lines being cut off when speaking to Ravengard in Wyrm's Crossing.
  
• Fixed Ketheric's corpse standing back up in an idle pose.
  
• Fixed a blocked camera in the dialogue with the ogres at the Blighted Village.
  
• Fixed Raphael popping during the dialogue with the orthon.
  
• Fixed camera, audio, and character movement issues in the dialogue with the monk's amulet.
  
• Fixed a looping animation in the cinematic dialogue with the Brewer.
  
• Fixed half-orc hirelings clipping when speaking to the pale individuals in Fraygo's Flophouse.
  
• Fixed male halfling Dark Urge's hand clipping through his body when lying down.
  
• Fixed lighting issues in the endgame cinematic.
  
• Fixed Jaheira having jittering and popping hands in a dialogue in the Lower City.
  
• Fixed a repeating animation on the submersible.
  
• Fixed Wyll looking in the wrong direction when recruited.
  
• Added reactions to the player character's face when talking to the ox in Last Light.
  
• Fixed clipping between two Zealots of the Absolute in the Colony.
  
• Lae'zel no longer floats in a cinematic dialogue in the Temple of Bhaal.
  
• Fixed popping issues with Cazador in several dialogues with Astarion.
  
• Fixed some issues with where characters are facing, animations, and cameras in the final combat cinematic.

Welcome to this week's development report :)

Level: Continued working on the materials as well as research regarding level building tools.

Code: Continuing to make progress on the processing range.

Character: Great progress on outfits and concepts. We will let the pictures speak for themselves.








Animations: Maya x Shiva minigame finished on the animation side this week and ready for implementation. Maya x Rad animation pack finished and currently being implemented into the engine. Transferred the Maya x Kral animations from last week to Shey x Kral.

Design: Finished a first pass of character progression design. Review done, but ultimately not yet approved. Continued to work on various cutscenes.
Started working on the "Sexy Quiz" quest for Sky Village. Test your knowledge on Kerpal history and you might be rewarded with a kiss!
Further topics on the Design workload this week were:

• Sky village cave system blockout
  
• Item list review
  
• Started Sky Village quest and dialog implementation

Thank you for all your continued support,

-Wild Life Team

I didn't quite make it for the stealth fest but 1.1 Resistance Supplies is now finally live!

You can now cause comms blackouts at any time with the jam pod, blind ships with the new dazzler gadget, silently disable them with EMP effectors or the new Hex-9 hybrid tool, link enemy reactors to eliminate multiple ships simultaneously or straight up blanket an outposts with various types of (expensive) fire support.
Passive upgrades also got many new additions, among other things now allowing for high accuracy builds via hard reductions of minimum weapon sway. Sonar can be modified to detect through objects, you can get free disguises each zone, or reactive dazzlers that blind anyone who looks at you too carefully. There are ways to increase your personnel and PS gains from missions now, but you can also spend excess PS on a one time run bonus or go into missions with a completely random loadout, using the new shuttle ship that gets crowd-sourced gear when deploying. Oh and there is a offense-focused salvager that can straight up disassemble wrecked CorPo ships to regain health.

If you have some PS banked you can add some of the new gear to your loadout immediately. Other items come with new unlock requirements, many revolving arround mastering the new and old ships. I also added a couple new training simulations to introduce some of the new items as well as previously existing mechnics. And TacHI can now give you random tips on the title screen. Cheers! Full changelog here.

As with all my updates, 1.1 is now part of the game for free. I hope you get something out of it.
A thousand limbs uplift you!

- Fixed mortar spawn issue on Castle Itter
- Fixed debug window opening on Shift-D
- Fixed mortar AI bug
- Multiplayer stability improvements
- Visual tweaks

Known issues:
- Internet connection issues when creating a new challenge can cause an issue
- Mortar AI needs further improvement following immediate bug fix
- 2D allied counters are over-exposed

Plus other reported issues! Many thanks to those who have provided feedback and suggestions.

Fixed some UI Inconsistencies.

Be sure to check out https://www.wildwoodthegame.wiki/wiki/Getting_Started for a guide on getting started in Wildwood!

New Stuff
-Added 3 new ships.
-Added 9 new weapons.
-Added 7 new gadgets.
-Added 18 new upgrades.
-Added 60+ mods for both old and new gear.
-Some of these options allow for randomized loadout runs and one-time run bonuses by expanding excess PS.
-There are also ways to accelerate personnel and PS gain now, if you can spare the deploy budget.
-Added a couple new training and challenge simulations.
-Added TacHI avatar to the title screen that gives random daily tips.

Changes/Balancing
-Max tech levels increased (120-->180).
-Subsistence score (from taking excess SRM into missions) is now scored separately from loot score.
-HARP-R and SCRW SPINR now deal EMP damage by default and can be converted back to kinetic with mods.
-EMICRO base supf increased (30-->60)
-RPAM-7K reserve ammo increased and deploy cost reduced (14-->10).
-STAPL-R ammo print mod now works on a per-zone basis.
-TRIPWIRE ammo increased (12-->16).
-Tripwire can no longer damage shielded ships.
-EM TORP buffed (damage: 160-->200, damage fall off: -75% --> -50%, AoE: 2.5-->3, ammo: 4-->8).
-Increased EMP duration caused by EMP explosions by 100%.
-FLASH TORP now detonates silently.
-FLASH TORP ammo increased (8->12).
-CMND TKN ammo increased (12->24).
-Dazzler explosions no longer require guards to directly laze the dazzler source, instead they blind any guards that are mostly facing towards the flash (215°).
-When disguised, LP ui now shows your remaining disguise integrity.
-MIRROR VARNISh LP penalty reduced (+20%-->+5%)
-H-WAVE RADAR range increased.
-WHISPER CHIP now also shows CorPo force composition (on inventory tooltip.)
-FEED UMBIBLICAL now prevents weapons from ejecting their remaining loaded ammo on reload.
-Shield bonuses on multiple items rebalanced.
-Using melee on melee immune objects now causes longer melee cooldown.
-Reinforcements on high level missions might have their shields plugged into the G-Dock, allowing them to be continuously shielded while stored.
-Any guards that heard a threatening sound will now eventually attempt to report, if other guards closer to the sound are prevented from reporting.
-Specialist guards are now bold enough to attempt to report when you board them, as long as their ship hasn't been disabled yet.
-Specialist guards will now resist interrogation until their ship is disabled.
-Starting with zone 4, mission areas are now surrounded by core-fusion dead zones that prevent you from escaping off-grid.
-Killing an EBO ironically no longer count against no kills bonus (not sentient enough?).
-Bossfights spawn more guards now.
-Resupply no longer increases in price per use.
-Disabled state now removes blinded/deafened markers form guards. (Superfluous at that point.)

Fixes
-Fixed dazzler detonations not affecting guards correctly.
-Fixed melee sensory stun still affecting melee immune enemies.
-Fixed a situation in which player would be able to call evac even though evac is already in progress.
-Fixed a problem with triggering placed gadgets via lidar.
-Fixed unintentional multi explosions in certain circumstances.
-Fixed a problem with how certain passive and ship specific effects are applied.
-Fixed mine detection elements not being affected by convection. (?)
-Fixed MAG MINE detection ui not being removed correctly on detonation.
-Fixed WRNCH ARM not using up ammo when sabotaging comms stations.
-Fixed a problem with displaying wildlife help comms.
-Fixed vault crates being movable under lockdown.
-Fixed a problem with how certain spring sounds are initiated.
-Fixed a problem preventing escort ships from getting re-tasked if their lead is taken out.
-Fixed some instances of ship struct ejection fallback not taking effect.
-Fixed game re-entering fullscreen on return to title (?).
-Fixed player exiting deafened state not resetting certain engine sounds correctly.
-Fixed some problems with how elevator location text is handled.
-Fixed friendly ships using wrong intro TacHI intro text when boarded.
-Fixed selecting empty inventories showing previous tooltips.
-Fixed Puffstar sliding your an extra mag on deployment, leading to rediculous ammo gain on certain weapons.
-Fixed bad unknown value on CorPo Scaffolds.
-Fixed some typos.

- changed player run animation
- difficulty decreased a little (alerts range from 20 to 17.5, enemies now notice you a little slower, hostile AI view range decreased)

Happy Friday, friends!

Glad to be back at it! If you missed our last digest, Michael and I were helping run and teach a summer camp, Girls Make Games, for three weeks in July. That's why we've had a shortage of digests last month. Good news though, we are working hard this week!

Remember back before this latch patch when all the loot tables were iffy and we fixed them, but couldn't get the patch out because of navigation issues? Well those navigation issues were because we changed a setting to get dungeons working and changing the setting back didn't fix it. It was a long tedious process, but eventually got it fixed and patched out. My point in reminding you of this, is that dungeons are going to be a bit more tricky than we thought. We do want to make the dungeons procedural and a big part of that is having navigation for enemies to be able to walk around. We know that dungeons a HUGE requested feature. We'll be slowly working on it and other things at the same time. We want to get more updates out quicker, rather than spend months on large systems.

So with that in mind, we've been working on fishing! The basic system is about to go out to testers and then we'll be adding all the fish in the world! I don't have a timeline for you (it'll be soon!), but a cute tidbit - the fish are measured in Smidgens!



You'll soon be able to spend your days on the docks finding those rare fish or just hanging out with your friends bonding over the water.



TLDR: Dungeons will take longer, but are still coming. Fishing is very soon!

See you all next week!

-Janna & Michael