Sons of the Forest finally gets update 1.0, patch notes revealed

Sons of the Forest has received a major update, 1.0. This update brings a lot of changes and fixes to the game. However, the developer noted that there might be some issues with the save. For that reason, they have recommended starting a fresh save to experience the story and the new features fully without any issues.

The changelog for today’s update can be found below:

Sons of the Forest Update 1.0 Patch Notes

Features

• New title scene and end credits details, visuals and music
• Added new choice alternate ending
• Added 5 new cutscenes
• Revised and added new voice acting and details to dining room, gold room, get down son and Jianyu intro cutscenes
• Added new voice acting to Sahara confidential found footage
• Added proximity voice chat with filters for in caves & underwater along with adding additional filtering to the walkie talkie
• Added creative mode, with a new alternate creative inventory, and ability to skip build animations (unlocks when players complete the game story)
• Added Raccoons and gave ability for squirrels and raccoons to climb trees
• Added 2 new mutants; Legsy and Holey
• Added new stronger puffy variation ‘Spotty’
• Added higher tier gold armor level for cannibals
• Added new sickness system tied to drinking unclean water or eating bad food. Drinking clean water or eating meds will cure sickness
• Many new story item pickups added and most story item pickups re-worked, along with new in world decorative notes and magazines
• Renamed glider to Foldable glider and it can now be hot-keyed and stashed to inventory
• Golf Carts now come equipped with radio decks and a GPS screen
• Added new world details, more paths, partially dug tunnels by excavators, new Jianyu camps, 14 new mini caves and cellars and many other environment tweaks and updates
• Revised h*** cave door opening, will now require additional steps to open
• Added NPC Timmy to h*** cave
• Added 2 final artifact pieces and final artifact can now be crafted
• You can now *(Spoiler)* or create a *(Spoiler)* with the combined artifact
• Jianyu helicopters will now take off and leave from bases around map, and may occasionally hover over player structures to check on them
• Added dying tactical soldiers with red flares that can be seen from a distance to help direct players towards locations
• Added new findable dead Tactical and Worker dudes with GPS locators that appear when nearby, helping direct players towards interesting locations
• Added campfire smoke plumes to cannibal villages that can be seen from a distance and will go out if there are no cannibals there to tend to the fire
• Added various details to the snowy mountains; outdoor Solafite areas that attract lightning, snowmobile versions of carts, and small radar dishes
• Added new cave (unlocks after end game sequence)
• Added a new Arrow Storage structure and a new explosive storage structure
• Added new nice chair and nice couch buildable structures
• Added 2 new platform prefab structures and ability to snap them to built structures
• Added new auto foundation system for some prefab structures ( including small cabin, lean-to and lookout tower, and platforms)
• Added 3 new trap structures
• Added option to extend camp fire with logs to turn it into a bonfire
• Added a range and valid target readout to the rope gun
• Added 4 new findable blueprint structures, including a glider launcher, and 3 mystery structures
• Added strikeout to the message window UI for tutorials or ingredient counts that have been completed
• Added additional achievements
• Added seed items for Twinberries and Snowberries and a new Jam Recipe
• Added new soft opening video to bunker food
• Added new rotten textures for rotten meat, oysters & fish
• Added PVP damage setting, and made it available in the multiplayer admin menu
• Added AMD Fidelity FX™ Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) support
• Added a new weather occlusion system for buildings to provide much more accurate weather visuals & Reworked interior space warmth system to be more accurate

Improvements

• Player can now carry up to 4 stones at once and can now place multiple stones at once, as many as currently held
• Reworked stone wall so that upper rows require only 4 stones instead of 5
• H*** cave lava, lighting, effects, details and audio re-worked and improved
• After player sleeps Kelvin will be found also sleeping somewhere nearby
• Virginia & Kelvin will now wear outfits you’ve given them in cutscenes
• GPS screen now more accurately reflects the world, showing cliffs, paths and clearings
• Moved many items and pickups to better locations
• Added support for weather occlusion to structure tarps
• Added new system to ensure multiplayer clients see completed ghost structures transition smoothly to the built version regardless of networking conditions
• Slightly increased size of the tarp sleep trigger so its easier for all players to sleep
• Grounded beams fake pillars now remove snow around them
• Powered cross and leg lamp now have a fixed snap point for the wire
• Placing a new stone floor will now orient it to place in front of where player is aiming instead of the default calculated position which might be outside viewport
• Improved some placement UI to better reflect position of the snap point
• Placing stone beam on ground now displays more accurately where the stone will be placed
• Added snow remover to snow golf cart plow
• Added sound effect when relocating structures
• Flyswatter and Bone-maker traps can now be moved after placed
• Furniture supported by other furniture is now linked, preventing the dismantling of the supporting one, destruction is also applied to the supported furniture
• Players can now trade bones
• Bunker Luxury entrance reworked and set dressing improved
• All bunkers relit, and additional details added in some of them
• Stone beams and floors now use a more subtle place animation
• Mushrooms, Twinberries and Snowberries can now be grown in planters
• Large female cannibals have new full-body taunts and short yell animations
• Added boots to players pajamas
• Oyster greeble layout improved
• Improved some areas in Cave D where players were getting stuck
• Added a tutorial message for zooming the tracker.
• Improved placement of tree structures
• Added more golf carts to golf course
• Golf carts and Hang Gliders now appear on the GPS screen when nearby
• Eagles now sometimes land on logs and dead trees
• Added some additional animal zones around map
• Improved fall detection to avoid triggering fall animation when walking over small ledges
• Stripped crunch from all textures smaller than 1024 to improve performance
• Virginia Beckon locations now save and added many more locations for her to take you to
• Any consumable, including drinking dirty water straight from a body of water, will now play the bad food eaten audio event on the player
• Added Loading screen hints for sickness and toggling creative inventory mode
• Enabled count readouts on all items on shelves that are not 1 to 1 visuals
• Improved case where muddies would run to water or food and back to trees before finishing eating or drinking
• Flashlight and shotgun no longer respawn upon loading if you already have them in inventory
• Solar panels cannot be placed anymore in occluded areas (underground cellars)
• Reduced shader variant counts & added shader warm up in loading to remove first time shader compile hitches
• The GPS Tracker will now remember the current zoom level when re-equipping it
• Blueprint structures that are being relocated will now retain their previous facing direction
• Updated strength hint in loading screen to include damage
• When a structure is dismantled, it can now spawn bundles of items
• Changed it so that the last tabs on the blueprint book stay open longer if the mouse is moved off them
• Added LODS to armor racks and armor on shelves
• Improved the debug free camera system which now uses the main camera, so assets around it load properly, and now works with gamepad (’Freecamera on’ through the debug menu)
• All held items will now play a stash audio event when they are unequipped.
• All held items will now play their mouse over audio event when the item is equipped.
• Optimized all colliders in inventory and sped up how long it takes for items to appear when inventory is opened
• Added an area light to the screen of the held GPS tracker to give it some glow
• Cloth in inventory now has a stack of five that will fill up
• Doubled the speed of the item hover animations in the inventory
• Items can now be batch added and removed from the mat in inventory by holding the button down
• Reduced the out of breath sound when the player has reached their minimum vitality when all their stats are reduced
• Improved the interaction and animation of throwing items from the grab bag
• Button can now be held to continue throwing items from the grab bag
• You can now hold the button down to keep eating berries in inventory
• Added watch pile on the crafting mat
• Removed small river rocks from lake greebles to reduce asset intersections
• Improved nav mesh for h*** cave
• Placing walls under leaning beams on ground is now possible if they are level
• Updated lean-to blueprint, using walls instead of apexes for the surrounding pieces and added one sided apexes to fill gaps on the sides
• Lowered CPU cost of having lots of idle structures
• Now only the structure being actively placed turns red when placement is invalid
• Log plank and variants now throw with the same orientation as logs
• Improved look of solafite
• Added Timmy drawings and Jianyu notes as world details
• Reworked and improved many temp art assets
• Added toss stone animation when adding stone to structures
• Added extra snow sled to help direct players from snow crash to the first ice cave
• Removed extra locator on GPS for cave F
• Improved look of skin on creepy Virginia and Armsy
• Fixed some objects in world being dynamic that should be static
• Increased headlights brightness on Golf Carts
• Added ‘search parties frequency’ and ‘building resistance’ settings to custom game menu
• Added pause menu icon over players in multiplayer ( appears as a cog over their name )
• Improved creepy Virginia ragdoll
• Cave entrance bat flocks can happen at any time of day now
• Improved Ai interactions around village objects
• Added burning sound and light when an actor is on fire
• Required Ingredients UI will now no longer show an available count higher than the required count
• Added a tutorial for when the player has been killed and needs to pick up their backpack
• Tab for the currently active page is now kept active instead of only when hovered over
• Both held books now have a close UI prompt at the bottom
• Updated the UI text and added localization for when a battery or air tank is used to recharge the equipped item
• Some items can now be added to storage more than one at a time
• Removed the page numbers from the top of the page in the blueprint book since the tabs now stay open for the current page
• Added a flashing Exclamation mark and bright red light to discoverable laptops
• Added a loading screen hint for drying racks placed by fire drying things faster
• Gold Armor renamed to Ancient Armor
• Added Drink and Dump Out UI for the flask and cooking pot
• Fire arrows and Torches will now ignite bodies when the arrow impacts or the torch performs its downward thrust attack
• Updated Cooking buff UI notifications to include the cooking pot icon
• Ziplines will now have visual harnesses when attaching stones or logs to the zipline
• Added a cooking pot stand for when the pot is placed on a fire to avoid it visually floating
• Required Items UI for structures is now hidden when the player is in caves or bunkers
• Added a pulsing light beacon to the dropped inventory bag to make it easier to find in the dark
• Added close UI when holding a story page item
• Lakes will now visibly freeze when players are nearby
• Various memory and CPU optimizations
• New dead Puffy poses added to the world
• Other players names are now hidden when riding in the golf cart
• Increased host not responding delay from 5 to 6.5 seconds
• Texture streaming budget will now update when changing texture resolution options
• Optimizations to streaming system to improve movement around the world and remove risk of leaving things active when moving fast
• Renamed Kelvin ‘take item’ order to ‘take clothing’
• Reworked game save code to be more robust in case of error during the serialization process
• All blueprint pickup items are now called blueprint instead of the recipe name to avoid spoilers
• Added audio event notification on game saved
• Updated default bindings for golf cart, will now use RT and LT by default
• When giving items to other players using the grab bag, the UI on the item will now say GIVE instead of USE
• The mini-map view is now zoomed out a bit
• Improved flashlight on the hanging tactical
• Updated the inventory visuals for the Ancient Armor
• Story Objectives are now displayed in red
• Added a tutorial to build storage the first time the player fails to pickup an item due to full inventory
• Improved billboard texture memory usage
• Action cameras are no longer fake dropped. If the player collects the camera and already owns the video clip, they are notified with a UI notification
• Added UI notification to display how many people are waiting to sleep in multiplayer to let others know its time to sleep
• Added UI to inform the player how to change the icon on held GPS locators
• Added bones and skulls to some of the clay pots when broken
• All blueprint structures should now properly clear grass and bushes
• Campfire and standing fires now use new fire burning audio events
• If the bow does not have an arrow loaded but the player does have an available arrow type available in inventory, it will be automatically loaded into the bow
• Storage will now drop certain items in bundles when the structure is destroyed
• Only one person can interact with a campfire at a time
• Structure dismantling is now X instead of C to prevent clashing with adding items to storage
• You can now drink water when holding a spear
• You can now add twin and snow berries to shelves
• Improved some spittle layout in caves
• Added a UI notification for when the player is interrupted sleeping from enemies nearby
• Dead tactical soldiers now wear balaclavas and have b***** clothing
• Mountain fog layout improved
• Torch smoke trails improved
• Added terrain anisotropic graphic setting
• Player now has idle and moving animations when holding artifact pieces
• Player can now look down further before the spear switches grip
• Rebreather mouthpiece is now moved offscreen when leaving the water
• Eating berries while in inventory is much faster
• Heavy cannibals can now wear winter clothes
• Glowing Puffies now have more unique looking materials
• Fix some issues with cannibal facial deformations not matching on carried bodies and not darkening when burned
• Added more variations to the enemy search party events
• Improved texture loading speed of items in inventory
• Added Holosprings logo to screens in bunkers
• Improved look of walkie talkie
• Re-worked look of bunker icons on GPS to be distinct
• Smaller cave icons on GPS
• Added UI to show player current strength level
• A.I. Can now better navigate around player built furniture and small structures
• Improved AI navigation in player bases
• Added AI pathing to rope bridges
• Improved blood and wetness of creepy Virginia and on babies
• Improved physics of bushes when cut
• Dead stumps react better when cut
• More saturated coin visuals to be able to see them better in inventory
• Kelvin can now walk over logs ( also fixes pushing them through terrain )
• Inventory now gets the correct fake ground applied every time the inventory is opened
• All items in the inventory now have hover animations
• Setup LODS for preset tarp elements
• Optimized construction database to reduce amount of CPU usage and lower amount of data to send over network in multiplayer games
• Setup combined LOD system and added 4th LOD to optimize rendering cost of stone floors
• Improved look of defensive wall LODs
• Made rendering of the Construction UI more consistent visually
• Broke up tiling on frozen lakes
• Added shoreline wetness to the cliffs
• Rainbows will now show up after it rains

Balance

• Babies are now single hit kill from any weapon in normal mode
• If a player sleeps in unprotected location, they can now sometimes be interrupted by enemy search party
• ‘Containers don’t refill on load’ set to True by default in Normal games. Can be set in a Custom game.
• Players max strength level has been increased from 50 to 100
• Each level in strength now increases melee and tree chop damage by 1%
• Adjusted Hang Glider ‘down force’ when pitched up to make it easier to gain altitude
• No printer resin by default in printers, instead you need to find and add it
• Players name tag will now be hidden when crouching in multiplayer games
• Large cannibals running now drains more energy
• Sea turtles now respawn at rate of 1 per day (4x faster)
• Added 10 more sea turtle zones
• Explosions will now cause break damage to all armor pieces hit
• Added more golf carts to golf course and around map and made more connecting paths to drive them on
• Adjusted the rates at which the players skin temperature changes and the rate at which the player gets wet and dries off
• The player will now get soaked from snow much slower than when in rain
• Indoor temperature is now clamped within a range so that indoor temperature is not always the same as outside
• Fire sources are hotter now so the player will dry off faster
• Adjusted the amount of rest the player gets indoors and outdoors and how comfort modifies it
• Energy Bar Fullness increased from 15 to 30
• Some item counts in inventory have been reduced to match their visuals in the inventory and to encourage using storage
• Cat food and Oysters can now rot
• Increased the raw fullness of some of the perishables
• Adjusted spawn logic of cannibals in villages so stronger types won’t spawn at villages close to player start points at start of game. Fewer Elise spawns, and added a few Franks in villages
• Igor, Henry, and Elise can no longer appear in early game search parties
• Igor, Henry, and Elise can now appear in nomad families starting day 8
• Rotten items can no longer be used in cooking
• Dried perishables will no longer go rotten
• Cooked foods now take twice as long to rot compared to raw
• Air tanks now drain 25% faster
• Stone Storage and sled now carry 28 stones instead of 27
• Updated eggnog recipe to use 4 eggs
• The taser stick now only has 3 charges per battery
• The player downed time before respawning has been greatly reduced. Also sped up the skull animation to give more sense of urgency
• Buckshot count reduced from 15 to 8, and cone spread reduced from 25 to 20
• Slug ammo will cause now cause shotgun hit reacts on enemies even if armored
• Fence electric wire now sustains damage when electrocuting something (can fire 6 times before being destroyed currently)
• You can now carry 20 Solafite
• Fat cannibal Health increased from 140 to 170
• Heavy cannibals now can wear armor
• Increased chance of spawning head armor and body armor pieces on enemies
• Tweaked all enemy armor values
• Cannibal head damage multiplier from sharp melee reduced from 2x to 1.5x
• Demon attack increased damage by 25% and increased Coop game health up to 30%
• Adjusted the enemy spawns in some caves and bunkers
• Regular male cannibals run & walk 20% faster and are 5% larger on average
• Puffy attacks have increased speed
• Creepy plating attack changed from 1 to 2 waves (each wave slightly smaller) It will also now include the new creepy mutant types
• Balanced enemy structure damage and fixed some creepies, demons and large female cannibals being unable to damage structures
• Set structure distortion at 70% of structures max HP and partial collapse at 20%
• Stick spikes and electric fences are now more fragile

Audio

• Improved audio for open areas like fields and on mountain
• Increased volume of bats
• Added updated music for Jianyu intro
• Added music to get to chopper cutscene
• Added new H*** cave audio and reverb snapshot
• Updated and retimed the music on opening crash cutscenes
• Added ‘stone’ pickup audio and mouse over when in inventory
• Removed ducking of music on settings menu
• Added Player getting a little sick sounds
• Tuned open air audio and default ambience
• Made mutants in caves footsteps louder, made cave wind louder
• Tuned mutant epoxy footstep distances
• Tuned Demon Boss distance vocal events
• Fixed old weapon hits lasting as events longer than their audio
• Added bunker announcement events to underwater group and tuned rebreather sounds
• Added better audio for Big Boss intro
• Made ambush event 2D
• Added events for moving structures and changed reverb on in cave objects
• Reduced steam hiss sound
• Tuned Golf Cart audio
• Tuned squirrel foot sound distances