I figured I would make a thread for it since we've been mentioning it a lot. The Forest updated today! Old save files are once again incompatible so we all loose all of our progress, but oh well.

Voice chat was added to the game itself so we don't have to use Skype and the Forest now for co op.

They've added rope climbing, and made a lot of the caves inaccessible without rope. They also replaced Treehouse steps with climbing rope. I really hope the rope climb mechanic is well planned because otherwise this is really going to suck. Not that the treehouse stairs were useful.

Some buildings now have platforms so you can have them flat and adjust their heights.

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Tweaked enemy density in caves

This scares me.

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New creature added! - Check the caves.

This scares me more.

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Re-worked save game system so future updates will (likely) not erase save games to work!

Good.

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(multiplayer) default player cap increased to 8 along with option to go up to 128 players (for adventurous players only! not recommended)

FE, LETS HAVE AN ADVENTURE!

This update added tree bridges! You can build bridges from tree to tree. That's cool. I built a basic treehouse and the rope worked fine, but it still required all the lumber for the stairs. I found a few other new bugs, but the new foundations for certain buldings look really cool (but take an insane amount of logs)

Patrick @ 1/12/2014 19:38

Drr what's your video card? Wondering if the new laptop I ordered will be able to run it.

NVidia GeForce GTX 560

There are lower graphic settings and adjustments. I haven't tried them, but they're probably alright.

I did have a memory leak problem once a while back, which is a common-ish problem. My FPS dropped to about 6 eventually right after I tried cave diving. I think its because I was attempting to burn down the forest on that save just for the hell of it.

A great way to get used to the game if you're afraid of dealing with the things is to use veganmode. Type veganmode in the main menu and they won't spawn. I like it for when I'm trying to finish buildings from coop.

Played for a bit last night with Curtis and then continued the save in single player. we built a Log cabin on a huge platform and connected it to a tree platform. It was pretty nice.

Tree bridges weren't working for us in co op but I got it to work in singleplayer. Really glitchy to put down, and they require a lot of logs, and I THINK I had to have both platforms it connected to built, but once the blueprints were up it went smoothly as any other building project and turned out pretty nicely. I didn't have any glitching with actually using it. I was pretty surprised how well it worked since it was at a weird angle.

I think there's a huge amount of new possibilities with the new patch. I'm also really curious how long the bridges can be before the game tells you to go fuck yourself.

Just found a map someone posted somewhere. It's the most up-to-date/accurate I've found. Not quite right after the new patch but the closest I've found.

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What was it near again? The music lake, or that one cliff area that we made that big fort?

I THINK these are about right:
Yellow is the rough area where we built the huge Fortress
Green is the safe haven we almost built that giant gazebo on
Pink is where we built the cabin in the sky
And I THINK cyan is the music lake where we built that one fort on the cliff.

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I don't like to play looking at a map but I like to look at them after. I'm actually sorta confused. Either I found the new lake zone mentioned in the change log and they altered the area a lot, or one of those ponds is actually huge.

I'm leaning towards new lake though. It's a really glitchy one with trees sticking out of it that almost everything else in the game doesn't seem to realize is water. That describes most water areas, but theres no effort by the game to stop things from spawning right in the lake at all

Last night I tried to explore a cave, but the FPS dropped to 3. I know it was that because I was trying to record it and my recorder lists the FPS. After engaging in a battle it dropped to 0, and then I still won.

There's a problem where sometimes the game has a memory leak. Reloading works when that happens but if the problems were there at the start, idk

Good news for a small fraction of our console friends:


Really wish they would finish the PC game first though!

I was testing out a glitch that allowed me to ascend to the heavens, but something went wrong, I was killed in the sky, and awoke in a cave. In the cave I found a treasure trove of flares and meds. Then, while trying to escape, I was suddenly underwater and my flashlight wouldnt work, so I pulled out my lighter. Soon I was ascending once again, still submerged, and found myself once again above the surface, in the ocean. But wait! I wasn't at the surface, I was still below it, but above the cave. I could see my one fort from below it. I tried to run towards it, but I fell once again into the cave, as a strange light glowed within. I was above the cave and within it at the same time. Then I fell once again, into a void sea of black, a glowing sphere of sky shrinking above me as I fell through infinity.

This game is so fucking glitchy

I wanted to finish up a few things before the update tomorrow(/today?). I had a temporary camp set up for no real reason. A fire and a hunting shelter in a little corner, back to a cliff, on one of the less populated beaches. I was minding my own business, murdering lizards for their skin and feasting on their fleshy innards. The usual. Suddenly I get attacked by a very small raiding party, just two guys. One with the club, one with the fire stick. I didn't have much for weapons in this save. My plane axe went missing and all I had was a slow stone axe, and I was out of cloth. I was struggling with club guy, so when the starving lady showed up and took my side in the fight, I let her take on club guy and went after fire guy. I walked over, hoping to sneak up on him since I didn't feel like catching on fire.

He was standing in front of my hunting shelter. He took his fire stick and attacked the shelter, and lit it on fire. It turned out he was too close, and he caught on fire himself. Right after he burned to death, my shelter fell apart.

I heard about structures getting destroyed before, but never saw it until now. It was awesome.

This just got posted on Steam by the devs:

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Hey everyone, Todays v0.11 update will be releasing at 6 pm PST as we test the last few issues with multiplayer server saving!

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Heldi03 Just now why and what take so many time? Heldi03 4 minutes ago when come the update im waiting and waiting and waiting it means that the update come at 9 p.m.

People have been crying for multiplayer saving for SO LONG. And now that we know it's coming, people are crying about waiting another couple of hours.

Nah, that's the only hint they've given on future updates. There's a new update every 15-20 days and they usually contain a lot of bug fixes, new features and more each time. We'll know in about 5 hours what the new update contains