New Creatures

• Mosquitos
• Fireflies
• Bees!

New Crafting Content

• Bee Armor Set (Face Mask, Shoulder Pads, Shin Guards)
• Firefly Head Lamp
• Stinger Spear
• Mosquito Needle
• Weevil Shield
• New consumable: Healbasa 
• Two new stuffed friends: Stuffed Bee and Stuffed Firefly

New Perks

• Barbarian Perk: Club damage increased

New Features

All platforms

• Equipped items no longer take up Backpack space.
• Equipped items will stay on the player after death. Each piece of equipment will take a small amount of durability damage after you die.

Changes / Tuning

Networking

• Container inventory contents are no longer replicated to clients until needed (an optimization)
• More reliable networking calls from clients to server
• Reduced the amount of network data sent between various systems.

Other

• BURG.L Chips now award science when returned regardless of whether the corresponding BURG.L quest is active.
• Mint Mallet has been renamed "Mint Mace"
• Rotten bee equipment can now be analyzed to unlock the un-rotten recipes.

Combat

• Bone weapons have slightly less durability.
• Most unblockable creature attacks are now blockable with shields (still unblockable with weapons).
• Pollen can now be thrown.
• Previously-equipped off-hand items that were displaced by a two-handed weapon are restored when re-equipping a one-handed weapon.

Interface

• Point of interest notification has been altered to be more responsive and look better.
• Notifications now will display what's in the queue to improve feedback with this system.
• Save game screenshots now work with Logout saves.
• Rest / Set Respawn UI adjustments.
• A "New Resource" queue will display on the HUD if you end up picking up new items faster than the HUD can handle displaying the notifications for them.

World

• Nectar now spawns on top of flowers instead of below them.
• Creatures will fade out / fade in when approaching their despawn distance to prevent visual popping (currently only works on host).
• Bratburst visual effects better match the ingredients that were used to craft it.

Buildings

• Buildings will be invalid less often when placing them inside structures.
• Incomplete buildings are more visually apparent.
• Buoyant Markers can now be built in the lower pond.

Creatures

• Creature Perception: Player noise now has a linear falloff as opposed to all heard player noise having the same value regardless of distance.
• Increased hearing range of Wolf Spiders from 2500 to 5000 to account for the above change.

 

Bug Fixes - All Platforms

Top Community Issues

• Foundations will no longer be invalid when snapping to other foundations that stick out of the ground too much.
• Clients can now dump canteens
• Autosaves no longer cause performance hitching.
• Fixed issue with clients failing to spawn in games that have huge player bases built.

Game

• Fixed crash with clients joining a saved game where their loot bag was collected by another player.
• Incomplete doors will no longer have collision after loading.
• The player can no longer eat or drink items while gliding or zipping.
• The player will now drop all hauled items when starting zipping.
• The player can no longer attack while gliding.
• Air bubbles will no longer spawn in large clumps when first approaching sources of them.
• Door frames now have collision applied to them.
• Fixed issue where "Craft and Equip" could cause a random inventory item to get equipped.
• Characters will no longer fall when loading a save in which they were ziplining (not retroactive)
• Dew drinking while hauling is disabled to prevent issues where dew disappears without giving you any hydration.
• Fixed crash with clients joining a saved game where their loot bag was collected by another player.

Items/Equipment/Resources

• Muscle Sprouts will now respawn
• Dirty droplets no longer act like clean ones when drinking them
• Buoyant Foundations can no longer be built underneath the water in some situations.
• Buoyant Marker can no longer be placed on land.
• Objects without physics will no longer cause the bounce pad to bounce.
• The previous weapon, for the Equip Previous hotkey, now persists across saves
• Shovel+ now has a proper faster animation.
• Fixed some interaction issues with FrankenLine.
• Soda droplets will more consistently respawn.
• Punch-O Juice drops properly despawn after 72 hours so new dew can drip out.

World

• Gnats will get happy after boops more consistently.
• Aphids will now face the correct direction when descending grass blades.
• Clovers will now save and restore properly.

UI

• The field of view will no longer sometimes oscillate when sprinting sideways.
• Fixed issue with the "low O2" black vignette not working on clients.
• Fixed issue with the 3rd person camera being in odd tilts after respawning

Ominent Practical Technologies

• [All information regarding the activities of Ominent Practical Technologies in this update are to remain confidential]

0.6.0 Public Test Patch Notes for Update Build 0.6.2836:

Changes / Tuning
Interface

• Layout revision to the OS Config menu to make viewing the status effect icons and details easier.
• Weapons and arrows that are embedded in creatures will not display their floating icon until the weapon/arrow becomes dislodged. This cleans up some icon spam when using a bow.

 

Bug Fixes - All Platforms
Game

• Structures that were anchored to certain objects, such as the baseball or flagstones, will no longer be considered unsupported.
• Fixed issue where kicked players end up having their inventory lost in the save data (does not retroactively restore inventory for players that have been kicked prior to 0.6.0).

Items/Equipment/Resources

• Items floating on the water will now despawn when appropriate.
• Bratbursts now visually work correctly for clients.

World

• Grubs can no longer be dug up by the Repair Tool or the Mint Mace.
• Fixed issue where sometimes sleeping creatures were displaying as awake on clients.

UI

• No longer showing the "Health Bar" for creatures that cannot be killed (BURG.L, Koi Fish, etc.)

Audio

• Fixed submerged audio getting stuck on clients after death if they died underwater

0.6.0 Public Test - 2830 to 2836 Changes (Only noticeable across Public Test Builds)

• Fireflies are now more successful at returning to the yard at night.
• Bees no longer float while sleeping.
• Fixed Equipment Bonuses not being removed/updated on unequip.
• Pollen slows creatures it gets stuck on when thrown.
• Healbasa should no longer aggro creatures.
• Updated Healbasa art.
• Updated flying creature audio.
• Buffing damage on the Mosquito Needle. Added a small amount of stun value as well.
• Bees now eat Nectar.
• You can now equip a Dandelion Puff again when you have a full inventory.
• You can unequip items by dragging and dropping them onto a backpack slot.
• Improved the visuals of Fireflies at a distance.
   

0.6.0 Public Test Patch Notes for Update Build 0.6.2851:

Changes / Tuning
Interface

• Items dropped in the world that uses the temp loot bag model (armors, etc.) will have their item icon displayed on top of them.

World

• Busted Acorns can drop more shells.

Bug Fixes - All Platforms
Game

• Fixed issue with depositing items into a full container with a controller.
• Items/Equipment/Resources
• Hauled items will correctly be dropped when knocked down in multiplayer.
• Dropped web will properly display on clients.
• Fixed issue with depositing items into a full container with a controller.

World

• Mites no longer sometimes animate like they are walking while not moving.

UI

• Fixed issue with pixelated lighting artifacts showing up on weapons when held up to the sunlight.
• Fixed some rendering issues with player eyes around lights.

0.6.0 Public Test - 2836 to 2851 Changes (Only noticeable across Public Test Builds)

• Improved the firefly audio.
• Flying creatures have better fall physics on death.
• Bees no longer randomly drop pollen.
• Updated bee hive temp art.
• Fixed issue with blocking doubling the hit stun values of attacks.
• Increase the amount of bonus block value the Weevil Shield gives.
• Fixed Splatbursts not working properly.
• Fixed an item duplication bug that could happen when throwing two-handed weapons.
• Fixed an issue with creatures sometimes never dropping aggro after a certain amount of time.
• Increased range of Mosquito combo attack.
• Fixed Healbasa sometimes not working when thrown.
• Implemented a fix to make the Sleep button work on click again.
• "Fix Creature Locations" will no longer reset the fireflies back into the yard during the day as they aren't supposed to be there during the day.