Northern Lights News

Hello and Happy New Year everybody!

We are happy to announce that Northern Lights version 0.1.5 is now LIVE on STEAM and comes with a lot of improvements and fixes to both performance and mechanics!

[h3]Changelog 0.1.5[/h3]

• Major improvements to overall performance of the game
  
• Major improvements to particle effects performance
  
• Major improvements to herb spawners performance
  
  
• Added support for audio localization
  
• Added russian audio to game
  
• Added updated turkish file to localization manager
  
• Notebooks can now be shredded into tinder
  
• Fire starting now consumes/decays starting items even if failing to start a fire
  
  
• Balancing of cooking pot and frying pan weights
  
• Balancing of marker decay ratio
  
• Balancing of firewood burn rate
  
• Balancing of cabin fever mechanics to make more sense
  
• Balancing of wetness values for drying rack and ground drying to make more sense in relation to time
  
  
• Fixed an issue causing HUD stat chevrons to display incorrect trends
  
• Fixed an issue causing journal to not display correctly in other languages
  
• Fixed an issue causing a cave to not load in game
  
• Fixed an issue causing game to stutter when looting or triggering afflictions
  
• Fixed an issue causing passive stats to not recover correctly
  
• Fixed an issue causing interactables UI to sometimes not work correctly
  
• Fixed nature objects that were floating in air
  
• Fixed various text from localization
  

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!

Hello everyone!

With the Winter Holidays around the corner and 2020 coming to an end, we want to wish you a Merry Christmas, and all the best for 2021!

We really appreciate all the support we've received from you throughout this year and we are looking forward with hope and excitement to what 2021 will bring.

Our team will be off between the 24th of December and the 2nd of January, resting and enjoying time with our loved ones. Yet, if any game-breaking bugs appear in our game, we want to assure you that we will be around to fix them :)

We hope you will enjoy playing Northern Lights during this winter holiday, and we look forward to seeing you all again in January!

Happy New Year!

- MadGoat Studio

We are happy to announce that Northern Lights version 0.1.4 is now LIVE on STEAM and comes with a lot of improvements and fixes to both performance and mechanics!

[h3]Changelog 0.1.4[/h3]

• Improved overall performance and usability of world objects' user interfaces
  
• Improved animal fat harvesting and usage mechanics
  
• Improved hitboxes for picking up items (rocks, sticks etc.)
  
• Arrows can now be taken back
  
• Spruce bark is now stacking in inventory
  
• Paper stacks now show as materials
  
• Cold affliction now won't trigger randomly when outside
  
• Treatment panel buttons now pulse when the items are available for consumption
  
• There are now more pinecones scattered through world
  
• Save system now only keeps last 5 autosaves
  
• Clothing now only gets wet while outside
  
• Certain items now go into their containers when looted (bullets into ammo boxes etc)
  
• Added some missing localizations
  
  
• Balancing of hunger stat
  
• Balancing of encumperance stat
  
• Balancing of vodka hydration loss
  
• Balancing of food poisoning treatment
  
• Balancing of cold affliction
  
• Balancing of food poisoning affliction
  
• Balancing of drying and wetting speed for items
  
• Balancing of loot spawning
  
• Balancing of quest loot spawning
  
• Balancing of carcass spawning numbers
  
• Balancing of cooking recipes
  
  
• Fixed issue causing poisonous herbs to sometimes show as 0% poisonous
  
• Fixed issue causing rain coat to not be equipped on character
  
• Fixed issue causing pelts to not be takeable after placing to cure
  
• Fixed issue causing quests to not trigger credits on ending after cutscene
  
• Fixed issue causing credits to not exit to menu after playing ingame
  
• Fixed issue causing cursor to show for 1 frame when interacting with non-ui based objects
  
• Fixed issue causing snow to render on top of campfires
  
• Fixed issue causing botulism/foodpoisoning to add 0% to risk causing them to trigger wrongly
  
• Fixed issue causing canned food to not yield recycled can
  
• Fixed issue causing socks to not be placeable
  
• Fixed issue causing batteries to last 1 minute
  
• Fixed issue causing lantern light to light too high
  
• Fixed issue causing snow render volumes to break when buildings are scaled
  
• Fixed issue causing particle render volumes to break when multiple buildings loaded
  
• Fixed issue causing save manager to detect non-save file as saves causing game to break
  
• Fixed issue causing trap to spawn carcass on load even when it shouldn't
  
• Fixed issue causing tracked craft quests to display requirements multiple times in journal
  
• Fixed issue causing nature water to miss watercollision
  
• Fixed issue causing items to not dry in inventory
  
• Fixed issue causing impact particle in interiors to be red
  
• Fixed issue with weather station interiors
  
• Fixed issue with old town interiors
  
• Fixed various issues with ending quests
  
• Fixed various localization issues
  

[h3]MadGoat Team wishes you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays![/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!

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!

[h3]Northern Lights Patch 2 is now live on STEAM! [/h3]

This patch is focusing on improving the overall performance, stability and playability of the game!
With this being said, there is still a lot of room for improvement in this regard, and we will continue to gradually improve performance and load times in future updates.

[h3]0.1.2 Changelog[/h3]

• Improved performance of the game
  
• Improved stability of the game
  
• Improved loading times
  

Along with these improvements, we also fixed some other issues that were reported:

• Empty loot storages no longer pause the player until the dialogue is over
  
• Objects that can be salvaged without a tool will no longer display the timelapse screen (planks, bushes etc.)
  
• Sun glare no longer shows through mountains
  
  
• Balancing of loot spawned on the grounds in starting region
  
• Balancing of hydration restore from drinking water
  
  
• Fixed an issue causing snowfall and blizzard effects to render inside caves and buildings when leaving a game session and loading another
  
• Fixed an issue causing severe hypothermia to not cure
  
• Fixed an issue causing arrow shaft to not be craftable with all types of knives
  
• Fixed an issue causing HUD messages to display on top of other menus
  
• Fixed an issue causing torch and candles to not find matches as starting items
  
• Fixed an issue causing salvaging to not display new item notifications
  
• Fixed an issue causing place button to not work
  
• Fixed some localization 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!