Community6 Jun 2026The Last Leviathan DLC RevealDear Onbu Riders We’re thrilled to introduce you to the first big gameplay expansion after the 1.0 release! 🎉 The Wandering Village: The Last Leviathan will feature a new giant players can befriend and learn to live on. Levi , a distant relative of Onbu, is a marine creature that feels right at home in the ocean. In addition to keeping Levi fed and free of poison, you also have to make sure to…
Dear Onbu Riders, As you may recall, we teased the physical PlayStation and Nintendo Switch collector's and premium editions of The Wandering Village in collaboration with Serenity Forge in July last year. We’re thrilled to announce that both editions will be released on July 30th ! Pre-Orders are still live , so make sure to grab them if you’re a fan of physical editions and get some extra awe…
Dear Onbu Riders, The Wandering Village is featured on Steam this week as a Midweek Madness deal with its highest discount ever, 50% off! Our art team has been busy putting together an Onbu skin DLC, featuring 5 new Onbu skins. The DLC just launched with a 10% discount: If you already own the Collectors Edition, you can get an extra 10% off via this bundle: And if you need even more city-builde…
Dear Onbu Riders It’s that time of the year again: The Steam awards just went live. With Wandering Village finally hitting 1.0 this July, we are now eligible for nominations again 🙂 We would greatly appreciate it if you nominate us! We hope you have been enjoying the game and are super happy that we finally managed to take the step out of Early Access after 2.5 years. All in all, we have now b…
Dear Onbu Rider Thank you all so much for making The Wandering Village’s launch a success! We hope you are having as much fun playing the game as we have working on it ✨ We have been busy listening to your feedback and putting together an update that focuses on improving as many points as possible. We are happy to introduce the Quality of Life update! If you often find yourself wishing that vil…
What's New · The new search bar allows you to quickly find any technology in the research tree! · You can now build the Hauling Post, a rework of the old Worker Post. Workers employed here will pick up stuff from the ground and keep production buildings well stocked. They get a substantial boost to movement speed and carry capacity, too. · Story quests and tutorials can now be collapsed into a…
Bugfixes · Fixed exception when Scavenging Trading Display was closed with right-click and then opened again · Fixed scavenging buildings dumping their rewards in the middle of the village instead of storing them
Improvements · Forcibly show a quest’s side panel when a new transmission is incoming, even if that quest is unpinned · Proper world-map visuals for some story-related locations · Korean localization improvements · Fixed unlocalized side-objective in a certain main story quest · Don’t show survey prompt when closing the game Bugfixes · Fixed a rare case where the “Someone wants to talk to you”…
Dear Onbu Rider It feels like we have only blinked once since The Wandering Village launched into 1.0, but it’s already been a week! Thank you all very much for helping to make the launch a success 🎆 We are trying hard to read through all of your feedback and have started working on several quality of life improvements for the 1.1 update, such as: Worker Management Overlay which allows you to…
We just launched the 1.0 version of The Wandering Village 🥳 Our team is super excited and we hope you are too. We can’t believe it’s been 5 years since we first started working on the game! Check out our new animated trailer created by Trash Studio, a Japanese animation studio: There is a 35% discount to celebrate the launch! What changed since Early Access? Since its Early Access in 2022, the…
About this Patch We named this patch v1.0.2 in preparation of the upcoming release. While we will not add any new features for the upcoming release, we do have a little surprise in store for everyone that will be released on July 17th! Bugfixes · Fixed being able to start a research while another is still active, causing you to lose all invested resources without warning · Fixed inputs not corr…
Bugfixes · Fixed a rare exploit that could lead to Onbu continuing past the location of the story finale · Fixed dialogue in story finale sometimes getting locked up · Fixed parasite egg locations not being selectable prior to the eggs actually being burrowed · Fixed manually placed parasite eggs not being removed by Pest Control workers if marked for harvest · Fixed road visuals not updating c…
Improvements · Added a new, animated start screen! · Replaced story outro dialogue soundtrack · Added puddle sound effect · Removed some UI panels related to Early Access · Changed light and fog settings for story finale · Improved story cutscene backgrounds · Improved story outro · Added optional objective to ||second seed-planting phase during finale|| to make it clear how to get Liquid Weed…
Bugfixes · Fixed an issue where save files could not be loaded if they were created just after completing the “Burial at Sea” sidequest while already scavenged wreckage locations were still visible on the map
Dear Onbu Riders LOTS of news incoming today! TLDR version: - 1.0 release is coming July 17th to Steam, Xbox, Playstation and Switch. - We just released the Story Mode Update. - Our roadmap has been updated. - The game’s price will increase to $29.99 after the current discount. - There will be a physical edition for the game for Switch and Playstation, more infos soon. - Check out the new trail…
Bugfixes · Fixed an issue where players could get locked from making further progress in Story Mode when saving after clearing the strange rubble, but before listening to the incoming dialogue · Automatically fix save files affected by the aforementioned bug - if your file was previously stuck in this state, loading it should allow you to continue with the story
Bugfixes · Fixed an issue where Onbu would walk past the final location in Story Mode if it had low trust and started shaking at that exact moment · Fixed an issue where Onbu Discipliner could be used to force Onbu to move beyond the final location in Story Mode for a couple of seconds after reaching it
Patchnotes v0.11.4 The Story Update is here! Join Onbu on an epic journey as you learn more about the world, its inhabitants, and the source of the infestation. Meet a cast of unique characters, help them out in a series of side quests, and prepare for an intense final showdown. We've also added two new Onbu skins: "Sakura" can be unlocked by completing Story Mode, while "Tahoa" must be earned…
Bugfixes · Fixed building-related achievements unlocking when loading a save file with construction sites for these buildings · Fixed dialog endless loop if speech bubble button is pressed in transition · Fixed bug where scavenging missions loaded from previous save files could break the game (brown Onbu back)
Bugfixes · Fixed Onbu's back turning brown when trying to place a Sawmill or Quarry in save files where trunks or boulders were very close to the edge of the plateau · Fixed string wrapping in Welcome Panel Button, leading to wrapped text in Russian and other languages · Fixed a rare case where save files created in a previous update would fail to load · Fixed an issue where tutorial was using…
Bugfixes · Fixed an issue where workers harvesting trees, rocks or clay could get permanently stuck and starve to death · Fixed an issue where loading an old save file could lead to some trees becoming "unharvestable" · Fixed issue when loading an old save file where scavengers were on a mission for a reward that doesn't exist anymore in the current version (village was turned to brown Onbu bac…
Dear Onbu Riders The Ruins update has arrived! Explore the new Ruins biome in search of debris, a valuable late-game resource that can be salvaged to retrieve a host of useful materials. Build purifiers to fight fungal spores before they even get a chance to land. Your scavengers can now explore remote locations, as long as you can provide them with a steady supply of rations. And for those in…
Patchnotes v0.10.6 The Ruins update has arrived! Explore the new Ruins biome in search of debris, a valuable late-game resource that can be salvaged to retrieve a host of useful materials. Build purifiers to fight fungal spores before they even get a chance to land. Your scavengers can now explore remote locations, as long as you can provide them with a steady supply of rations. For those in se…
What’s New · We’ve listened to your feedback and reworked the research tree, streamlining and cleaning it up. You can find all the details under Balancing below. · We’ve improved on many other things mentioned on Discord and Steam, such as the order of food-related items and recipes being inconsistent. Improvements · Order of food-related items is now consistent throughout the game. Order of Be…
Dear Onbu Riders We hope you have been doing well! While we're hard at work adding the Story Mode, Ruins biome and improving the game in general, we would be super happy if you nominate us for the 'Labor of Love Award' in the Steam awards ❤️ Cheers & Thanks, Stray Fawn Studio
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