Richie's Plank Experience
Playing now
5+2 vs. yesterday
0.2%of peak
All-time peak
2,486Jul 2019
Playing now
5+2 vs. yesterday
All-time peak
2,486Jul 2019
| Published | Title | Build |
|---|---|---|
| Minor EULA Update We have just released a minor update for Richie's Plank Experience which includes the following: - Updated Safety message text - Updated EULA text - Reduced HMD removal threshold from 5s to 1s to trigger safety message | — | |
| End of Year update. Have a great time! Turned on Santa Simulator bell in the elevator. · Updated Santa simulator with shinier bell and shooting star VFX. · Updated safety message. Now requires agreement from each user. · Removed rope until we can figure out why it's glitching out. · LIV sdk should be updated. · Fixed bug where users sometimes don't have gravity when stepping off the plank. · Removed ability for users to accidentally… | 10211707 | |
| Hero Academy Is Here!major Richie's Plank Experience now has Hero Academy! This update includes all three game modes: Missile Defence, Rocket Race and Fire Fight. Missile Defence: Protect the city from the falling missiles by punching them out of the sky. Rocket Race: Use your rockets to fly as fast as you can through the hoops across the city. Fire Fight: Grab your fire extinguisher and your rocket to fly through the ci… | — | |
| Magic Umbrella Add the Umbrella to the end of the plank from the Desktop menu. ( Press M on your keyboard) Magic Umbrella soften your fall. If you pull and hold the trigger, you can fly around the city at a relaxing pace. | — | |
| New Santa Simulator. Free with Richie's Plank Experience You may already be familiar with the old Santa Simulator bell inside the elevator in Richie's Plank Experience. Well, it's been polished and improved in a night time sleigh ride. Santa Simulator is now published as a Stand alone experience for sale on Steam for $6.99. Owners of Richie's Plank Experience on Steam receive it for free and should now see the new Santa Simulator in your Library. | — | |
| Don't Pickup the Pumpkin We're happy to publish this update in time for Halloween party season. This update is purpose built for entertaining your guests. You now have an option to add a special pumpkin to the end of the plank. Whatever you do, don't pick it up. Not suitable for those with Acrophobia. | — | |
| Mixed Reality Update + 31 other minor fixes/changes Lots of small improvements and bug fixes this week. IMPROVEMENTS · Added Mixcast SDK! This makes it much easier to film mixed reality videos, with or without a green screen. · Removed some redundant objects / models for slight FPS boost. · Improved spatial audio for 4 different Nightmare sounds. The breathing dentist adds a lot! Nightmare is activated with 666 on the number panel. · Changed bil… | — | |
| Officially out of Early Access! After over 12 months of development and improvements, Richie's Plank Experience is finally out of Early Access. Here's how it looked then and now. Plank View THEN NOW Flying THEN NOW Thanks again for your support. Merry Christmas! | — | |
| The Grand Opening Update This is Toni and Richard from Richie's Plank Experience. Below you'll see details of a rebuilt city, feet tracking, nightmare mode and a few other surprises that came out today. Announcement video here (8min) If you have any questions, we're here to answer them for you. REBUILT CITY The city has now been rebuilt from the ground up. Textures, buildings, rooftops, interiors, sky, roads, the plank… | — | |
| 2 Dead Bugs Fixed bug which meant user sometimes fell through the ground. Gravity is adjusted in a more natural way when flying now. | — | |
| 7 Dead Bugs Bugs Fixed · Mixed reality is working again. · Cake can be picked up with the trigger again. Mmmm. Cake. · Fires are now neverending again. Car fire is back! · If you fall off the plank, the app menu buttons are temporarily disabled. This stops accidental game menu opening when in panic mode. When demoing, we also recommend enabling arcade mode in the steamVR console to also disable system butt… | — | |
| You asked to fly faster. Now you can. You want to fly faster? You get to fly faster. Enable Ludicrous Speed mode in game settings in the VR menu. May cause motion sickness. It also has less wind drag so it's a lot more loose around corners. Enjoy | — | |
| Mountain Terrain + Richies Plank Update Today's Richies Plank Experience update includes: New HD building on the ground floor. Across the street from starting location. Headset fades to black if you try to cheat and peek through the elevator doors. Terrain texture is now complete. It looks WAY better when flying through the mountains. Be sure to enable 3d terrain in the graphics settings. Higher res realistic lighting. Improved skybo… | — | |
| 6 month celebration update GRAPHICS · New light raytrace light baking · New static car · Car shadows · Better frame rate · Better street lights with light emission. · New aggressive rocket models and particle effects. Faster looking and better frame rate. · 2 New buildings. · New fire particles! Better looking and better frame rate. · Improved bloom effect. · PBR Plank Textures. Much more realistic looking. · Improved El… | — | |
| Glorious Atmosphere is Here In this update: Without Glorious Atmosphere With Glorious Atmosphere (enable in App Menu Button -> Graphics -> Glorious Atmosphere) GRAPHICS · Enable Glorious Atmosphere in App Menu Button -> Settings -> Graphics. It's disabled by default until more testing is done. Please report back if it doesn't work. · Now using Single Pass Rending. · Adjusted Color Correction BUGS FIXED · Custom sky writin… | — | |
| Love is in the Air Update It's nearly valentines day! This update includes: · New flower growth when you hose the grass. The more you water, the bigger they grow. · A custom sky writing message so you can surprise your friends and loved ones. Video: | — | |
| The Gardener Update GRAPHICS What happens if you hose the grass in the main park? What happens if you hose it? Lift doors are now realistically thick. Added a flower bed for our friend Meelad's niece and nephew. Improved color correction. Increased draw distance. Positioned birds closer to the plank. Improved quality of the grass. Made skybox less orange. Added more cars. BUG FIX Cars don't glitch together anymore… | — | |
| Christmas is Over Update This update fixes a few issues and removes the christmas button&bell. If you still want to ride in that sleigh, there's an option to enable it again in Game Settings. Fixes and improvements in this update: GRAPHICS Trees are now animated. Lighting and shadows have been re-baked. GAME PLAY · Removed santa simulator as default (re-enable in Game Settings) · You can now disable falling off the pla… | — | |
| Real world plank measurement now 15cm (6") more accurate Now available in the latest minor update. | — | |
| Bell Bugs Update This update has some bugs fixed... · Everything fades to black after going up in the lift. Fixed! · Bells now ring properly. · Bell in the sleigh is now more reliable. · Fixed presents falling out of the Sleigh at the start. His aggressive approach was responsible. · VR Menu was glitching some of the buttons. Made them unusable. Should be fixed now. · Changed settings are now auto saved even af… | — | |
| Santa Simulator is now on Richie's Plank Experience There's a mysterious bell in the elevator. You ring it. Next minute, you're riding in a sleigh, dropping presents in chimneys. Welcome to Santa Simulator, now on Richie's Plank Experience. 15 Second Gif - Use the trigger on your controller to ring all the bells and throw presents into the chimneys. How many presents can you deliver? 0 - 5 presents - Santa School Student 5 - 10 presents - Shoppi… | — |
| Date | Day | Time | Patch title | Build ID | Branch | Depots | Download Δ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Aug 2026 | Thu | 15:59 | No patch notes · unannounced build | 24974602 | public | 2 | — |
| 26 Aug 2026 | Wed | 01:37 | No patch notes · unannounced build | 24940231 | beta | 2 | — |