The new update for Sons of the Forest brings over 100 bug fixes, new features and a smarter Kelvin.
Sons of the Forest has received a major update: more than 100 bug fixes, new features and other improvements are now designed to make your excursion into the dangerous cannibal forests even more exciting. We show you the most important changes.
The new features in the major update for Sons of the Forest
The first highlight of the update is the new means of transportation on the water: You can now choose between three different types of rafts and, with the help of a jetty, securely moor your boats near the base.
The boundaries of the game world have also been expanded, making exploration by boat even more exciting – but we don’t yet know whether developer Endnight Games has hidden a few dangerous surprises here.
The proven construction system has also been further improved: With the new blueprint mechanic for defensive walls, all you have to do is draw a construction task – your loyal AI companion Kelvin will then collect the necessary resources and build the walls independently. This leaves you with more time for exploring or fighting the cannibals and mutants.
What’s more, a new secret outfit is hiding somewhere in the game world – perfect for all explorers.
Improvements and bug fixes
Especially fans of ranged weapons can rejoice: The accuracy of the crossbow, compound bow, homemade bow, shotgun, and slingshot has been noticeably improved. Those who play with a laser sight will now benefit from a more precise projectile trajectory – making ranged combat significantly more effective.
There is also a long overdue innovation in co-op mode: If a teammate dies while swimming, they can now be resurrected directly in the water.
The bulk of the update is dedicated to bug fixes: A total of 128 issues were addressed, ranging from minor graphical glitches to more disruptive gameplay bugs. For example, the annoying inventory glitch that occurred after consuming an item is now a thing of the past.
Logical errors such as freezing in the so-called
have also been corrected. In addition, drying racks now finally work as intended and dry items over a fire correctly. Despite the success of Sons of the Forest, which was one of the best-selling early access games on Steam in 2023, it still lags behind its predecessor in one respect : While The Forest still enjoys an extremely positive rating and has seen a high of over 23,000 concurrent players in the last 24 hours, the sequel currently has a very positive rating and around 19,000 players. It will be interesting to see how the big update affects the numbers.
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Sons of the Forest – Patch Notes
Features
- 3 new raft structures
- New mooring structure
- Added structures for RitterV and glider mounts
- Added structures for towed defensive walls
- Added support for Steam Game Recording
- Added secret player outfit.
Improvements
- Improved crossbow, compound bow, homemade bow, shotgun, and slingshot aiming
- Improved arrow flight to match archery trajectory
- The “Skip Place Animation” option is now applied when logs are added to ghost structures
- Added the ability to resurrect players who die while swimming in multiplayer
- Players who die out of the water and then fall into the water will be pulled into the water and die there
- Kelvin now has a faster swim animation that he will use most of the time
- Kelvin and Virginia can now pull themselves out of the water on edges with collision in range
- When swimming, Kelvin will now swim towards the player he is following
- Kelvin now has blood and wetness support on all of his outfits, not just the default
- Built structures now register as a single hit for scatter shots (e.g. shotgun)
- Golf cart batteries can now be added on shelves
- Expanded world borders to allow more raftable area
- Increased accuracy of network audio event localization
- Improved overall quality of motion blur
- Improved appearance of ghosted structures when intersecting with the camera
- Optimized drying racks and fire physics rigs for better performance
- Some collider tweaks for Firewood, Bone Chair, Bone Chandelier, Stick Chair, Bone Storage, Firewood Storage, Wood Storage, Rock Storage, Stick Storage, Hunter’s Cabin, Bone Lamp, Mannequin, Planter, Rain Catcher, Defense Shrine, Arrow Storage, Weapon Stand
- Optimized physics colliders for items when added to the Lumber Yard, Stone Yard, and Firewood Yard
- Improved prompt layout for using the Lucky Bag UI
- Improved ranged weapon calculations to ensure impacts are detected when they start in a collider
- Throwing a corpse into water now generates splatter and wave particles
- Shooting tree vines with bows and firearms now breaks the vines
Bug fixes
- Bug fixed: Fire effect sometimes appears in the air when setting a corpse on fire
- Bug fixed in the rebind menu in Portuguese
- Bug fixed in the calculation of seawater displacement when there are no waves
- Fixed an issue where collecting a rabbit from a hutch or cage as a multiplayer client would not work if you already had a live rabbit
- Fixed a bug with the Tactical Axe where the spine was rotated too far up in the neutral attack positions, causing jerky transitions back to idle
- Corrected the appearance of Silver Hellebore when burning
- The player no longer freezes in the hell cave
- The setup of the particle accelerator has been standardized for all rock collector variants
- Bug fixed: Audio for flares does not follow the transformations when they are thrown
- Fixed some bugs in the ocean when exiting the game
- Fixed a rare case of a memory error that could cause possible crashes
- Fixed a bug in the projectile path when using weapons equipped with laser sights
- Fixed bug where the accuracy of the tactical bow was affected by the fps
- Fixed bug where it was not possible to see opponents on clients when the host was in the Timmy hallway cutscene
- Fixed a bug where Puffy’s cutscene and multiplayer rendering would not turn off properly when far away from the local player
- Fixed a bug where Mudlly could degrade during a jump/climb if the tree was damaged
- Fixed a bug where throwing a dead female cannibal could sometimes cause the ragdoll leg to move/position incorrectly
- Fixed a bug where the left and right hand animations could become out of sync if you were hit while reloading after previously sheathing an item in your left hand
- Increased texture resolution on keycards
- Shifted bunker volume translation up to fix the fog transition in supply bunkers
- Fixed dead workers’ eyes outside the food bunker
- Fixed missing tutorial when pufftones cutscene ends
- Make sure sleep icon updates when sleep is blocked
- Optimized fire effect on network players
- Fixed not burying the coffin completely
- Fixed items in right hand no longer applying on network players when items in left hand are stowed
- Fixed a bug where sea turtle eggs would have double stitches, causing z-fighting
- Fixed a bug where angry and scared facial expressions would not work properly for some player variants in multiplayer
- Fixed: Flare thrown on the ground is now displayed when opening the inventory
- When picking up items that are only held, the item in the right hand now waits until the animation for taking off has been played before it disappears
- Fixed an issue where held logs would appear too early when picking up a log for the first time
- Fixed an issue where the sound of the lighter bow would get stuck when storing the lighter and would not play after equipping it for the first time
- Fixed bug: hits with flaming weapons in multiplayer no longer set other players on fire
- Fixed bug: fire FX on other players stop too quickly
- Fixed bug: demon boss sometimes gets stuck on trees and rocks outside
- Bug fixed: Secondary attack with the chainsaw is sometimes interrupted when nothing is hit
- Bug fixed: The fall animation is played until the chat window is closed if the chat window was opened while the player was falling
- Bug fixed: It is no longer possible to turn a defensive wall that supports other structures into a gate
- Fixed leaning and platform columns casting shadows while ghosted
- Optimized CPU costs for structure placement
- Fixed getting stuck in some cases when consuming in the inventory
- Fixed a bug in the structure culling grid to fix some cases where structures were hidden
- Added pos and rot sync on first instantiation of built structures on the client to remove transform popping or lerps
- Fixed a bug where the sounds of area emitters would cut out and relight when the player moved from inside the area to outside (e.g. on the seashore)
- Fixed a bug where hits from clients on built structures were not properly registered on the server
- Reduced the mass of driftwood
- Logs no longer make an early splashing sound when thrown to fix instances where it splashed just above the water
- Added height restriction between defensive wall beams to prevent oddly shaped gates
- Fixed missing terrain displacement at fallen tree trunk E and fallen tree trunk F
- Removed some dirt decals that were sticking through the wall in the food bunker
- Improved multiplayer transform synchronization
- Chat box was sometimes not displayed, fixed
- Added sanity checks for sleep and jump time events to ensure they don’t fire during loading
- Fixed loading games sometimes resulting in a different camera rotation
- Fixed the sled popping up for customers
- Fixed numerous cases where built structures placed on freeform structures would not save their link
- Fixed some low-res splash particles on waterfalls
- Fixed thrown firewood not sliding into place in the firewood storage structure
- Fixed Vail castables burning forever
- Fixed the ocean having visible grid cracks under certain conditions
- Reduced Kelvin Ragdolls clipping and popping out of their damaged state when dying
- Improved the GUI of the book prompt to be less prone to motion tweaks
- Player interaction prompts have been smoothed out to make them less prone to movement changes
- Fixed a bug where the ground was not being checked for at each end of numerous structures when they were placed
- Fixed an issue where Ghosts of Blood Stools and Sofas could not be placed in the same location as the previous ghost
- Fixed being able to add more ingredients to the fire even though all cooking spots are already taken
- Fixed a bug where snow textures on moving objects would scroll
- Fixed a bug where collisions from dedicated servers in the ocean would not be recognized on clients
- Fixed a bug where seated players would not stand up when their seat was destroyed
- Fixed a bug where the cooking pot would disappear when the fire was destroyed in multiplayer games
- Fixed a bug where other players could not see the variation of a severed head or limb being held in multiplayer games
- Fixed a bug where the visual variation of a severed head or limb did not change in the inventory
- Fixed a bug where a placed rock sounded like it was hitting metal for clients in multiplayer games
- Fixed a bug where players could move slightly while on the pause screen in multiplayer games
- Added additional checks in the cave entrance manager to prevent errors
- Chairs, benches, and sofas at the edges of structures must now be placed so that there is enough space in front of them for the player to stand on them
- Fixed some bugs caused by clients using the “Build Immediately” command
- Fixed an issue where players could become in poor condition if they fell into the water from structures while interacting with fire
- Block interaction with fire while swimming
- Fixed issue where objects would not float in some cases in large currents
- Fixed issue where placement and cancel icons did not match their location on the active physics device
- Fixed issue where floating deer rugs could be placed
- Fixed issue where the spirit of the shelter had a collision before logs were added
- Fixed issue where gilded floors would sometimes revert to normal when off-screen
- Fixed a bug where corpses killed by fire would not retain the burn marks when carried
- Fixed a bug where big heads would sometimes still appear or grow and shrink randomly after turning off big head mode
- Fixed a bug where there was a jerky movement when rope climbing when the player moves
- Fixed a bug where a rifle bullet was briefly visible next to the camera after firing and stopping aiming
- Fixed a bug where hidden enemies could push the falling items on the last single-player death screen
- Fixed a bug where severed limbs that were cut directly from the body could have the wrong buoyancy or no buoyancy at all
- Fixed clients sometimes not hearing the craft completion audio when building screw structures
- Terrain height query was invalid on the first frame of the game fixed
- Fixed backpack weight issues and animation glitches when putting on and taking off the mystery bag
- Fixed crashed plane collisions in snowy mountains
- The LED Lighting button’s click sound now plays in the correct location
- Players will no longer receive their Solafites back when the Repulsion Shrine consumes them
- Fixed the Casserole Stand sometimes being visible even when there is no Casserole on the fire
- Fixed the sizes of the snow removal tools not matching when placing the leaf trap
- Fixed the repulsion artifact for clients no longer being synchronized when ore was manually removed from the artifact, thereby disabling it
- Fixed dead tree stump B lod0 mesh offset from lod1 and lod2
- Fixed shooting with ranged weapons while moving causing trajectory issues
- Fixed leaf stepping particles on the player would sometimes appear in snow or when jumping
- fixed player camera being rotated incorrectly when seated
- fixed audio from floating items sometimes repeating when hovering over an item in the inventory
- Fixed a bug where lighter icons would overlap the UI of the item they were lighting
- Fixed a bug where a helicopter could circle a camp indefinitely
- Removed duplicate knightV in a cannibal camp
- Fixed bug where swollen texture continued to animate after death
- Fixed a bug where the killbox was triggered multiple times on some pickups, which sometimes caused items to be removed from the inventory
- Fixed a bug where the fireplace, deck railing, fence, and fence post structure types could not be connected to supported screw structures
- Fixed: Network players would perform certain placement animations that would cause the wrong sound to play during other placement actions (e.g. removed players pick up a beam or tarp, then break a stick to build a fire, which plays the beam sound)
- Fixed wire snap point is hard to hit from certain angles around solar panels
- Fixed powered structures not turning on/off in certain contexts
- French localization fixed for “brain bite”
- Strange blur artifacts occur in certain lighting conditions when holding newspapers
- Fixed an issue where free-form destruction is not transferred from screw structures to subsequently supported structures (e.g. wires between driven structures)
- Fixed a bug where a player would get stuck in a bad state if they immediately canceled lighting a fire when “Skip Build Animations” is enabled
- Fixed a bug where a player would get stuck in a bad state if they unequipped the rifle while also equipping the flashlight
- Fixed an issue where fire would not dry items on drying racks
- Fixed an issue where the winch would show an impact point on objects that did not actually impact
- Fixed an issue where the cannibal’s jaws would sometimes look wrong during the death animation
- Made improvements to Lake Nav’s web to fix small islands where the AI could get stuck
- Fixed a case where the killer whale could get stuck in place for customers
- Fixed: Dedicated server not saved when setting the game to creative mode
- Fixed missing beep on GPS near missing team B member locations
- Fixed wayside shrines appearing in gold when broken
- Fixed icons popping that could occur when quickly switching between save structures
- Wall planter anchor is now centered to match placement detection so that it is properly connected to the supporting entity
