The Last Plague: Blight News

Original Studios just launched The Last Plague: Blight, an uncompromising wilderness survival game based on a more realistic set of game mechanics.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/uncompromising-wilderness-survival-game-the-last-plague-blight-now-in-early-access

• Fixed duplicate crystal gathering task appearing after dropping off crystals or silver. This was due to an oversight around opening/closing the relevant letter more than once
  
• Hopefully fixed the two monitor window issue by setting the game to use Fullscreen Window mode by default instead of Exclusive Fullscreen
  
• Fixed cases where silver wasn't present on the island by also generating it in caves. Any island caves you may have explored will be regenerated automatically after this update
  
• Fixed queued crafting recipes resetting the container that is chosen for the output, ex. crushing berries into one bowl won't switch to another after the first completes
  
• Fixed player rotation being tilted when getting up from bedroll causing loads of the autosave to have a weird camera setup on the character
  
• Fixed wheelbarrow and hand cart disappearing and/or becoming un-interactable when dragged into a cave
  
• Fixed extra construction materials being lost when using the "add from inventory" button to add remaining materials in certain cases
  
• Prevented auto-save on wakeup if your character dies due to poison or other cause
  
• Fixed distance check code to avoid construction interaction stopping instantly just as it starts
  
• Bears can no longer consume closed containers like clay pots or glass bottles
  
• Fixed wooden chest/workbench collision with floors
  

• Greatly reduced requirements for various stick shelter pieces
  
• Increased tin ore rock generation chance
  
• Increased ginseng plant generation chance
  
• Increased fuel amount for almost all wooden items
  

• Confined cursor the game window in windowed mode
  
• Added "N" to red part of the compass needle to make it more clear that it's north
  
• Reduced shadow distance and reworked shadow rendering to reduce amount of flickering close up, due to the sun changing angle every frame
  
• Reduced default amount of chunk messages sent per frame to hopefully avoid initial issues with players joining in co-op on slow host connections or performance
  

• Added new auto pickup feature (default key T) - holding this button will have your character automatically move towards nearby items in a small radius to pick them up, only if they can fit in your inventory. Note that the check for making sure they fit will ignore the normal pickup process of auto-unequipping held items to make space for large items like firewood. This works best for picking sticks/leaves from freshly felled trees
  
• French localization option!
  
• Remaining time display for fire pits and other similar structures is tinted red if it starts to get low for more obvious hint
  
• Any damaged buildings will now show orange labels if using "show nearby items" to help identify which need repair more easily
  

• Fixed issue where fire pit and other fuel burning structures would show extra phantom fuel time to add that doesn't reflect what items are in the fuel inventory area
  
• Fixed missing OpenGL shaders on Linux. If you have issues running the game normally (which uses Vulkan by default), you can add the launch option "-force-opengl" in Steam to start the game in OpenGL
  
• Better fix for your character starting and suddenly stopping the pickup process of certain items if you ran towards them
  
• Add missing deer meat cooking recipes
  
• Fixed chamomile flower collection task not counting dried chamomile flowers
  
• Fixed rare error that could happen during autosaves that would corrupt the list of discovered items/buildings in your journal catalogue
  
• Fixed a bunch of uncaught errors. Thanks to everyone who opted in to anonymous usage statistics! Has helped a lot to isolate a lot weird and rare issues
  

• Reduced late game hostile creature amounts, removed weaker hostile creatures entirely in the late game to avoid cluttering. This will mostly apply to games started after this update
  
• Increased stack size of dogbane stems from 1 to 4
  

• Reworked settings UI rows to have more consistent sizing regardless of the text label's length in different languages
  
• Increased saturation of the different item label categories to help make them stand out more: green for plants, brown for burnable objects like sticks, red for clay, and blue for ore rocks
  

• Fixed steel bear trap not being placeable
  
• Reduced errors related to the saving process if it takes too long
  
• Removed the delete game button after deleting a game in the host game window since there is no longer a game selected to delete
  
• Fixed one chunk not loading properly breaking all future chunk loads until a restart/rejoin
  
• Fixed game join not working consistently if connection isn't fast enough to receive chunk data within a certain amount of time
  

• Reduced amount of duplicate events sent for anonymous statistics collection