The Last Plague: Blight News

• Fixed oleander burn pile's clearing being reset after a few days. Now if the center of the cloud is cleared, the cloud will slowly start shrinking every day after
  
• Fixed glass bottle position when placed on the ground
  
• Fixed clay brick kiln items getting wet in the rain even if covered by a roof
  
• Fixed bones not being placeable in the fire pit's drying area
  
• Fixed error loop relating to digging and water updates that could cause performance degradation
  
• Fixed tilling soil not working for co-op joining players
  
• Fully fix decontamination percentage not showing up for co-op joining players
  
• Added recipe for copper ingot & tin ore pieces to make bronze
  

• Greatly increased decontamination rate for all food
  
• Reduced requirements for oleander burn pile blueprint and slime oil oleander leaf crafting recipe
  

• Fungus placement in Blight clouds is now clustered in the center to give a better visual cue on where to target the clearing
  
• Blighted fungus is no longer selectable since the item isn't used in the game yet
  
• Increased small bone stack size to 4
  
• Allowed berries and pine nuts to be decontaminated
  
• Prevent auto-pickup from picking up placed items like rabbit snares or clay molds
  

• Expanded wall piece collision boxes to hopefully prevent animals from hopping over them in certain cases
  
• Fixed co-op client players not being able to use rafts properly in certain network conditions
  
• Fixed co-op client players not seeing plant growth properties and stats
  
• Fixed co-op client players not seeing decontamination stats for decontaminated food items
  
• Fixed crushed silver ore not being able to be used as a cooking ingredient
  
• Fixed multiplayer game revert and then immediate start showing a "corrupted save" due to the game trying to load the just-deleted saves instead of the new top-level save
  
• Adjusted when and how caves are loaded in memory to prevent cases of cloaked figures falling through and re-appearing on the terrain directly above the spot in the cave. Also added some failsafe code to move any above-ground cloaked figures back down into the cave
  
• Fixed realgar crystal creation point to be in front of the resource instead of being off to the side and potentially clipping through the cave wall
  
• Fixed co-op clients not seeing details when hovering over a building in the process of being upgraded
  
• Fixed leatherworking task description to better reflect completion criteria, ie. cut the tanned leather into pieces
  
• Fixed distant cave lighting weirdness related to the shadow rendering changes in the previous update
  
• Adjusted main menu news popup to longer block main menu in case of weird resolution on first game launch with two monitors
  
• Fixed translations for the wait for contact tasks
  
• Allowed rain water along with potable water for fungicide crafting recipe
  
• Fixed covered clay jar interactions so that it can be filled/emptied with a clay bowl in either hand
  
• Fixed item movement blocked in placed backpacks if an inventory holding item like a small leather bag was in the top-left spot in the bag
  
• Fixed lid removal from covered clay jar losing all stored items in certain cases instead of having the items moved to your inventory
  
• Fixed raw wolf meat cooking into boar meat
  
• Allowed jerky to be decontaminated
  
• Fixed item/stockpile placement starting and stopping instantly due to bad distance checking
  
• Fixed fungicide recipe not being locked before the relevant letter explains it
  

• Reduced Blight cloud growth
  
• Increased chance of multiple mushroom growth after a growing cycle
  
• Reduced dehydration rate of all plants
  
• Increased most plant and herb generation in the world
  
• Pine cones are now contaminated like plants (sorry!)
  

• In-game news section no longer shows non-Steam community news
  
• Raft piloting isn't automatically ended when hitting the shore to prevent unintentional character movements in some cases
  
• Added CJK fallback fonts for players wanting to use those characters in game names and other places
  
• Allow collision with player character when placing items or buildings
  
• Increased fuel requirements for tinder/kindling to get round numbers of the required materials again after the increased fuel amounts from the previous update
  

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• 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