We cooked up some fantastic additions for Outbound that we're happy to share with you today!
Patch 1.1 is now live!
This is a larger content update that introduces Fishing as the main feature, along with new buildable items such as fish tanks, stairs, and doors to expand your base-building options.
Fishing
- Added Fishing!
- Added 3 Fishing Rods to obtain and craft, each required to fish in different areas.
- Fishing Rods can be obtained from newly added Download terminals.
- Added a new fisherman's hut to explore in the first biome.
- Added a new fisherman's hut to explore in the second biome.
- Added a new fisherman's cabin to explore in the forth biome.
- All lakes and rivers, as well as the sea now contain fish that can be caught.
- Added 32 collectible fish across all four biomes.
- Added 4 pieces of Junk that are sometimes caught instead of a fish, that provide additional Litter or Bottle Caps.
- Added a new Journal page to track the fish you've caught.
- Each caught fish has a star-rating between 0 and 5. The highest caught star-rating will be logged in your journal.
- Caught fish can be put into Fish Tanks that you can add to your homes.
- Please note that we decided fish will not serve as a source of nutrition. Instead, they are intended as collectible and decorative elements for your homes.
- Added 1 more fishing-related painting to collect.
Base Building
- Added 4 buildable Fish Tanks that can serve as habitats for your caught fish.
- Added 6 buildable Stairs that can be used to create multi-level homes in addition to ladders (some of those need to be researched).
- Added 4 buildable Doors that can be used to create rooms within your home. Doors can be opened and closed.
Bug fixes
- Some improvements to RAM consumption.
- Bamboo shelf counter - fixed targeting of placed items and added more slots to place.
- Airplanes can be heard from further distance now.
- Your dog companion now keeps proper track of not putting more items in its storage while searching for new items.
How to get your fishing rod
You can play with your existing save file, or start a new journey - whatever you prefer! The first fishing rod is available on Map 1 at the fishing hut near the lake with the pier in the first biome. This will also provide you with your first couple of buildable fish tanks. Following fishing rods and fish tanks can be acquired on Map 2 and 4!
A note regarding achievements: We decided not to add any new achievements to Outbound, as we want players who have already completed all achievements to retain the completionist status.
Please note that we are constantly improving Outbound, and there's much more to come. We will continue releasing smaller patches with bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements between major content updates.
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! :)