Sons of the Forest Patch 7 kommt mit Dedicated Server Unterstützung (23.06.2023)

Features

• New end boss battle and cutscene
• Dedicated servers
• Drivable golf carts
• Rifle
• Decorative frogs
• Animal head trophies
• Stone doorways, struts, windows and pillar detached placement
• New stone holder structure
• Window shutters
• Updated environment on East side of the map with more streams, waterfalls, lakes, ponds, cannibal villages, rope bridges and more
• Some new story note pickups added
• Dirty/clean water system added

Improvements

• Stones now apply damage to things when thrown
• You can now attach stones or any length of log to ziplines rather than just full logs
• A held relocated structure is now thrown if the player opens their inventory
• Added new cat food visual
• Wall shelves can now store cooking pots
• Kelvin can now finish building stone fireplaces
• Improved look of burning sticks material
• Improved look of boiling water
• Improved performance of trees in winter
• Improved stone/rock text localization
• Cannibal winter clothes now burn when the bodies are burned
• „Collected“ and „added to backpack“ text when picking up items is now localized
• Added LOD support so that items in storage holders will disable when far away
• Fixed issue with armor pieces on shelves having expensive scaled mesh colliders
• Adjusted some duck landing spots on water that were over land
• Repairing floors no longer re-orders its planks
• Disassembling a Custom Effigy now takes the limb you are targeting instead of the last limb added
• It should now be easier to place furniture in crowded areas
• Improved player on fire visuals
• Added an idle variation to ducks and increased their drinking and eating rate when on lakes
• Added new stone building tutorials to book
• Added some small cannibal camps to cave D
• Light bulbs can now be used from the grab bag and can be added to shelves
• Player can no longer perform interactions when aiming their weapon
• Player can no longer open their inventory right at the same time that they trigger a hatch or security door interaction
• Fish on spears will now fall off when the spear is put away or thrown
• Set armor racks to only allow a single user to interact with them at a time
• Added some hot springs to some mountain areas
• Dismemberment blood splat optimized
• Visual fixes for cave entrances : shimmering density, seeing through entrance from distance
• Improved lava impact visual
• Setup stone beam & pillar electric wire elements
• Pillar detached placement now works with any combination of log quarters or stones

Balance

• Drinking dirty water will now cause a small amount of health damage, boil water or collect in rain collector for clean water
• Added custom game setting to allow players to toggle the pausing of the world sim when in inventory
• Pausing in inventory now defaults to false in hard survival
• Demon boss reduced health and damage it delivers. Some attacks have longer cooldown and increased it’s damage against structures
• Added additional ammo and health pickups to corridor before gold room
• Added rifle ammo chance to ammo cases
• Doubled strength of stone structures
• Gold Armor now reduces incoming non-demonic damage by 30%

Fixes

• Fixed Knight V’s and gliders vanishing in some save games
• Improved and fixed most cases of artifacts caused by having too many built lights
• Improved weather occlusion and added a quality option that can be turned up if needed to fix issues of occlusion visually breaking
• Fix demon boss in overworld rescaling during some attack animations
• Fix for idle heavy male cannibal audio being audible from far away
• Removed deprecated option to place wire on standing stick
• Fixed pillars placed at the corner of two connected stone beams shifting if a stone is removed from one of those beams
• Fixed incomplete stone beams allowing removal of sibling beams supporting a pillar
• Fixed dismantling first stone from a complete stone beam not cleaning up links to supported structures until the last stone was removed
• Fixed stone fake pillars remaining on when disassembling a grounded stone Beam in a specific order
• Fixed stones allowed to be added to quarter log pillars
• Fixed using a repair tool on a second story leaning beam causing it to clip into the pillar its leaning against in a specific context
• Tweaked stone beam visual so lightbulb fits under it
• Fixed placing a strut underneath a tarp causing the tarp to collapse
• Fixed dismantling and replacing ramps resulting in broken weather occlusion for those tiles until game was reloaded
• Improved weather occlusion inside of the beached yachts
• Fixed being able to remove a pillar supporting a strutted beam if there was a linked beam with a strut on the other end
• Fixed cut pillar calculations sometimes preventing cutting a half log high pillar into a quarter log high pillar
• Fixed invalid linking issue when adding a pillar bellow a beam that connects a pillar to a wall
• Fixed various small building issues with struts and beams
• Fixed being allowed to cut pillars that are supporting furniture
• Skinned animals now have head removed
• Fix player sometimes stuck sliding on ground while in knocked down state
• Fix „Take Item“ Kelvin order causing player to try to equip previous item before opening grab bag
• Fixed placing a beam between two pillars with a full wall underneath not linking that beam with those pillars properly, which resulted in a beam impossible to dismantle while it has sibling beams linked to it
• Fixed half log spawned when cutting window sometimes staying stuck in the wall
• Fixed second stick placement failing when building a fire in a stone fireplace
• Fixed error spam when placing a leaning beam on beams supported by a wall in some context which would prevent the beam placement
• Fixed stone fireplaces getting destroyed too easily
• Fixed struts broken off of a structure not spawning a pickup
• Fixed picking up a held item while holding multiple stones causing player to only drop one stone pick up
• Fixed error spam on multiplayer client side any time a trigger touched a log pickup
• Fixed placing door not orienting it as the inside towards the player consistently
• Fixed stone structures not affected visually by snow and wetness occlusion volumes
• Fixed Defensive Wall Gate handles changing orientation when repaired
• Fixed cooking pots not always having the correct stew after save load
• Fixed adding the the first item to a storage holder being difficult in some cases
• Fixed issues with the cooking pot loosing its recipe in certain situations
• Fixed issue in multiplayer where the cooking pots current volume on the fire was not being updated when another player takes liquid from it
• Fixed pots with stew turning into water when moved from one fire to another
• Fix for erroring when trying to pickup any item that is a volume container but does not have a recipe
• Fix for empty cooking pots getting destroyed when a campfire burns out completely
• Fixed issue where dumping out the flask or cooking pot would also dump out the other if the other had been equipped before going into the inventory
• Fixed issue with shelves where some spots on shelves would not save properly
• Fixed standing fire UI interaction positioned too high
• Fix for getting into a broken state if the player tries to open the guide book when in inventory
• Fixed issue with multiplayer clients not being able to send objects on ziplines in both directions
• Fixed Kelvin sometimes able to get pickups far out of reach
• Fixed ducks sometimes getting interrupted while going to lake
• Fixed some activation and render distance inconsistencies on enemies and animals
• Fixed bug where it was possible to skin animals or creepies through collision
• In peaceful mode, villages will no longer have a chance to get covered in creepy spittle
• Chair inside bunker food will no longer show up in the inventory view
• Fix for having to look away from the zipline for its interaction UI to update
• Filling a held pot with stew that’s on the fire will now look like the correct stew
• Fix for opening inventory when the waiting for sleep interaction is active getting player into a bad state
• Fix for being able to eat from pot and light fire at the same time when loading into a game that had a cooked pot on an unlit fire
• Amount of stew remaining in a pot on a fire is now synced across multiplayer clients
• Fix for sometimes getting into a bad state with held items when equipping previously held item at the same time as performing another action like eating
• Fix for ziplines not getting destroyed when attached to trees that are not LOD 0 or other destructible world objects that are not trees
• Fixed missing visuals for one of the mushroom pickups
• Fix for boiling audio continuing to play if the fire that an active cooking pot is sitting on is destroyed
• Fixed cooking not always taking the satisfied recipe that has the most ingredients
• Fixed sporadic collision on laptops after they have been broken

Audio

• Added all the missing mouseover and pickup events (Action Camera, seeds, lightbulb heads)
• Updated distances on flare audio attenuation and tuned levels
• Impact sound effects are now also triggered when they hit other pickups so that a pile of pickups would make sound