• World, NPC & Audio Improvements - Improved terrain blending to reduce visible tile grids and straight texture transitions. - Softened the edges of vine patches and burn scars. - Improved sun and contact shadows across characters, animals, trees, buildings, and ground objects. - Updated main-menu lighting and shadows to better match the game world. - Adjusted tree textures for a more consisten…
Smoother on Steam Deck and phones · Fixed the frame-time stutter while running across country. The game was building each new chunk of the world in a single frame; it now spreads the work over several frames, so the Deck, and phones and tablets, should no longer drop frames every time a new column of chunks comes into reach. · The loading screen now loads a wider ring of country around you befo…
Aftergrowth update — people on the road, a richer east, and a new look People on the road · Strangers now stop and speak when they walk over to look at you. Press E to say hello, or swing at them and see how they take it. · Earn a stranger's trust and a hello opens their trade board right there on the road. Each of the five people in your world carries their own board, with their own stock that…
Enemies and wildlife · Raiders, wanderers and animals plan a route around walls, wrecks and buildings instead of walking into them. · A body that cannot get past something steps aside and tries another way, and remembers the spot so it plans around it next time. · Routes keep a wider berth around corners, so bodies stop catching on wall ends. · No more shuffling on the spot, and no more walking…
Enemies - Normal walking is sneaking now; sprinting is what gives you away — both footstep radius and the vision cone scale off it - Lose their sightline and they search instead of b-lining: they go to where you were last seen, look around for ~6s, and say so out loud - Factions fight each other, and a raider whose nerve breaks will flee - That "run at you then run away" was morale, not a bug —…
### Art & characters - **Boots fixed.** `_boot` tested `alpha > 0`, so it painted the contact shadow as solid trouser — inventing a plinth that fused both feet. Foot mass 20px → 16px against a 14px shin; 1432 invented pixels removed across 48 frames. Downed/asleep frames untouched. - **Armour reads at game size.** `hooded: True` was deleting the skin face, so cloth and leather collapsed into on…
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