Black Skies now has full Steam Achievements support - 32 achievements tracking everything from your first spark to the choices that get you through the hardest nights. What you'll be chasing: · Story milestones - for every major beat of your survival, from your first morning in the cold to the truth you eventually uncover. · Crafting mastery - for building the tools, fire, and shelter that keep…
This is a maintenance patch, mostly under the hood. Some polish but mostly making sure the Save/Load system is robust and hast integrity. · Save and load: your world now restores more reliably. Fires, traps, shelters, construction sites and the in-game clock all carry across a reload properly. · Cooking and crafting: several fixes to how ingredients are selected and accepted, including water co…
This is the largest update since Black Skies entered Early Access, and it is the one that finishes the story. The road out now has an end, voiced the whole way, with a debrief of what you actually did when you get there. Alongside it: cold fronts that move across the map, a fire you have to earn, and a whole line of things you can make from the trees around you. Thank you to everyone who has pl…
You have never had this valley to yourself. Rabbits break from the brush, deer watch you from the treeline, and larger things move through the cold. But until now, nothing in it hunted you as a pack. Wolves have come to the wild The forest has a new apex predator, and it does not hunt like anything you have faced. Wolves move as a pack. They stalk, hold their distance, read the ground, and coor…
A new animal moves through the deep woods. It is bigger than anything you have met out there. It forages, it wanders, it minds its own business the way the deer and the rabbits do. But it does not run from you. And it does not care for company. That is all you need to know. The rest, the woods will teach you. Also in this update · Polish pass on wildlife behavior and movement · Visual and UI re…
The wilderness has been still. Now it is alive. This update introduces a living wildlife ecosystem to Black Skies: animals that breed, spread, migrate, and react to you. Not scenery, not spawns on a timer. A real population you have to read, respect, and survive off of. A world that breathes Rabbits and deer now live as real populations that grow and move between regions on their own, whether y…
Update 0.12.0 - The First Big Patch This is the first major update since Black Skies launched into Early Access, and it is a big one. Months of work has gone into deeper survival systems, a full crafting and cooking loop, building out your camp, a lot of quality-of-life improvements, and a serious performance pass. Thank you to everyone who has played, reported bugs, and left feedback. It direc…
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