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Northern Lights Patch - 0.1.3 NOW LIVE!

We are happy to announce that Northern Lights version 0.1.3 is now LIVE on STEAM and comes with a lot of improvements and fixes to both performance and mechanics!

[h3]Changelog 0.1.3[/h3]

  • Major improvements to the performance of User Interfaces
  • Major improvements and fixes to time simulation system
  • Marker items are now stacking in inventory
  • Salt items are now stacking in inventory
  • Mending now has its own button to avoid confusion (however it still opens the same mending/shredding shared menu until UI overhaul)
  • Crafting recipe for arrows is now simplified
  • Increased max meat weights in cooking system from 1kg to 3kg
  • Inventory items are now sorted newest to oldest (per category)
  • Bridges are now always visible on map to avoid confusion
  • Overall improvement of pneumonia risk mechanics

  • Balancing of cold treatment
  • Balancing of fatigue modifiers
  • Balancing of weight for some items
  • Balancing of total calories storage of player
  • Balancing of calories for herbs
  • Balancing of cooking duration for fish items
  • Balancing of weather system (weather is more dynamic now)

  • Fixed an issue causing harvesting yield to be incorrect
  • Fixed an issue causing Kerosene to not generate in Jerry Cans. NOTE: If locations where Jerry Cans are available were already visited, starting a new game is required for this to work.
  • Fixed an issue causing containers to disable after pressing E on them
  • Fixed an issue causing meat quartering to break after the first quarter action
  • Fixed an issue causing cooking items to not be take-able 5 seconds after cooking started
  • Fixed an issue causing eating fish to add twice the botulism risk
  • Fixed an issue causing hunger depletion to not work while sleeping
  • Fixed an issue causing walking through water to not cause harm to player
  • Fixed an issue causing interior temperatures to not work correctly in buildings with more chambers
  • Fixed an issue causing carcass harvesting to yield invalid meat items (harvesting 0kg of meat was possible)
  • Fixed an issue causing handheld items to be usable while placing items, causing melees to attack on placement etc.
  • Fixed an issue causing fish to be caught instantly when starting fishing
  • Fixed an issue causing ending quests to not track automatically if general "Escape Island" quest is already tracked
  • Fixed an issue causing max meat size to not show when selecting in cooking menu
  • Fixed some localization strings
  • Fixed some audio issues
  • Fixed some ending quest related issues


[h3]We will continue to address the reported issues and bugs in the following days![/h3]

P.S. We want to remind everyone that Northern Lights is in its first days of Early Access so there might still be a lot of bugs to be ironed and a lot balancing to be done.

Because of this, we encourage everyone to use the Report A Bug button found in the Game Menus in order to reach to us about possible issues! Also don't forget to join our Community and Discord Server where we have chats dedicated for feedback and new ideas!

Thank you for reading and for all your support and understanding!