Patch 1.0.12 - Ladders and more Home Customization

First of all, a huuuuuge thank you to over 100,000 Outbounders on Steam! This is a huge milestone for us, and we’re incredibly grateful to see so many of you enjoying the game. Your support and feedback means the world to us. ❤️

Patch 1.0.12 just went online!

Ladders and more Home Customization

As with every patch, next to the bigger additions we did to the game, we also fixed a couple of bugs and improved general stability and balancing.

Features

• Massively improved ladders.
• It is now also possible to click to snap onto a ladder.
• Ladders can also be used from above.
• Setting to turn off / on look direction to change movement direction on ladders.
• Ladder animations in multiplayer.
• More customization options for all wooden items.

Bug fixes

• Fixed that Bean Bag chair was not in the game. If you acquired the "Chill Chairs" pack from a signal tower, you now own it as a blueprint.
• Materials being left in the camper van's bio burner are no longer lost when quitting the game.
• Fixed that battery assembler could only hold 4 items in output.
• Fixed companion UI text overlap (in some languages).
• Fixed that sometimes Cap 'n Snaps were not storing already taken blueprints properly.
• Fixed customization of Trellis Foundation with Ladder.
• Fixed colliders of the rain catchers at the Sunbeam Acres Farm.
• Multiplayer: Fixed making copies of customized furniture.
• Multiplayer: Fixed customization of base center foundation.
• Multiplayer: Dog companion can now pick up dropped items.
• Multiplayer: Improved vehicle physics in multiplayer, especially with the Pathmaker.
• Fixed graphics glitch at the hangar.

Balancing

• Reduced cost of Power Cell from 4 Battery Components to 2.

More customization options for all wooden items!

Based on your feedback, we’ve added many new colors to the wood customization options. You can now make your home shine in your favourite color! :)

Ladders - click to climb

We’ve heard your feedback about ladders and made major improvements to how they work.

First, we’ve added a new way to climb ladders: you can now interact with them to snap directly onto the ladder. This is especially useful when climbing from above. Previously, getting onto a ladder from the top was difficult and often nearly impossible.

Ladders - touch to climb

You can still simply walk toward a ladder to start climbing. Since many players are already familiar with this behavior, we decided to keep it unchanged.

We’ve also improved ladder snapping detection overall, especially when stepping off ladders, making movement feel much smoother and more reliable.

Ladders - controls

Previously, movement direction was determined by your look angle. Looking upward meant moving forward would take you up, while looking downward meant moving forward would take you down. We’ve now added a setting that lets you choose your preferred behavior, including an option where moving forward always means up and moving backward always means down.

Ladder Animations in Multiplayer

We added ladder animations for multiplayer!

We hope you’re enjoying the additions and improvements we’ve been bringing to Outbound. Thank you for playing and for being part of the journey! :)