Wildmender News

What do nature, gardens, and Halloween all have in common?


They’ve all been focal points for our competitions!


We’ve run two competitions so far - one for Wildmender’s launch and one to celebrate Halloween. Your entries have truly been incredible, which has been wonderful to see, but very hard on us judges!


We wanted to celebrate the winners of both competitions in this post and show off just how beautiful (or scary) the gardens have been.

Launch Competition

For our launch competition, we challenged you all to create a garden with the theme “Living in Harmony with Nature” to celebrate our collaboration with the Rainforest Alliance, and boy did you deliver!


The grand prize for these incredible entries was a hand-made Spirit Darter plushie for the winner, a Frog plushie for second place*, and a free copy of Wildmender for third place.

Winner: Caro



Second Place: Ivefan



Third Place: Em



These three gardens embodied how one can be at harmony with nature, restoring life back to the desolate world of Wildmender.


* Ivefan graciously donated the Frog plushie to another community member, Martouf, for their incredible work on the Wildmender Wiki.


The Halloween Garden Challenge


In honour of Halloween, we ran another garden creating contest, but this time the challenge was to create the spookiest garden.


All three winners received an exclusive Wildmender wearable blanket, while the first place also received a free copy of Wildmender. The gardens were so good that we gave out an extra Wildmender blanket for our honourable mention!


Winner: Ivefan



Runner-up: Elwyndrya



Runner-up: Shimaneguy



Honourable Mention: Wolfeen



All of these gardens really sent shivers down our spines and nailed that Halloween vibe.


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We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who took part in our competitions so far and it’s been such a joy looking at your incredible entries!

If you haven’t had a chance to enter one of our competitions just yet, don’t worry. Check out our Discord to be the first to know about any future competitions!

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Hi Wildmenders!
In this week’s patch update, we are once again focused on bug fixes as well as performance improvements. We’ve just pushed a build (199a) on Steam. Because of the console certification schedule, the newest PC version of the game will temporarily not be cross-play compatible with the console version. If you’re cross-playing with friends between PC and Consoles, please see the instructions below on how to keep playing together on the last version. Looking ahead we are planning for fixes and improvements, as well as reviewing everyone’s ideas for new content and features.

Now, onto the patch notes.

Build 199a:

• Fixed the issue of Canyon Wraiths appearing outside of the canyons in multiplayer
  
• Fixed the issue of player character stuck in constant jump on top of the titan crab
  
• Fixed a case of items not able to be crafted in multiplayer due to missing recipe.
  
• Fixed the issue of plants in planters teleporting to a spot in the desert upon logging in during multiplayer.
  
• Fixed another rare case of tool duplication at Arx - if you end up with duplicate tools for some reason, reloading the game should remove them.
  
• Fixed some specific spots in terrain where players can get stuck. Also added a cheat code in case players are stuck in terrain still. If you are stuck, hit the Enter key to call the text chat box. Then type in: /unstuck This will get you out of the sticky situation.
  
• Fixed a rare case of loading not progressing past 25% due to a clock issue.
  
• Added a new relay service as well as a new “Network” page to settings. This allows you to directly control the game’s use of the relay service when direct P2P connection cannot be established and something in the network may be blocking your connection to your friends. If you have issues connecting with your friends, this may help you get around them.
  
  To use the relay service, please have you and your friends all go into Settings in the Pause Menu then click on Network. For the Always Use Relay Server option, turn it to On. Please also have the host player select the closest relay server region (the host could try a few different ones if the current one doesn’t work).
  
• Reduced overall damage dealt by Dust Storms, in particular to larger plants and structures
  
• Reduced the chance of seeds spontaneously germinating by about half; any plant created this way also starts with the Tired status
  
• Fixed the Brittle Scroll taking Essence instead of giving it, if read after the associated perk is fully unlocked
  
• Fixed item spawners (such as mineral veins) not respecting an intended cap on the number of nearby buried items
  
• Increased the Frog’s base storage size to 16. Frog movement will now cover a larger area around upgraded springs.
  
• Removed the “aura bubble” from recruited Spirit Darters as it caused too much visual noise
  

Performance improvements:

• We’ve made a number of performance improvements targeted at larger gardens, in particular to memory usage in the hopes of reducing crashes on lower-memory hardware.
  
• The game should require less memory upon loading a large garden (by about 10-15%), and increase less over time.
  
• Improved handling of various common VFX like essence wisps, destruction puffs, and buried item glow to prevent memory bloat.
  
• We’ve also made some general performance improvements that will keep FPS from dropping quite as badly in large gardens:
  
• Improved performance of various biome-related checks in dense gardens
  
• Reduced the frequency of water mesh updates that aren’t near the player (visuals only, does not affect flow behavior)
  

Consoles & Crossplay
If you want to continue playing with friends on consoles, you can switch to the ‘crossplay’ Steam beta to continue playing on the previous version.

In your Steam library right click on Wildmender, go to Properties, find the Betas tab, select the Beta Participation dropdown and select “crossplay - For compatibility with current console builds”

Once this patch goes live on consoles, you can switch back to “None” on the betas tab, and get playing on the latest version.


Thank you all for all your support and stay tuned for more updates!

“I thought I’d be easy prey for those Wraiths. So tired, thirsty, hungry. But this barren place is magical. Plants I’ve never seen, with properties as if they understand my needs. If you are unfortunate enough to find this book, use my drawings. Save yourself. Survive.”

[h3]Thorntail[/h3]



“I don’t recommend eating these, as just a small bite left me feeling queasy. However, when crushed, it has healing properties.”

A bushy pointed plant, capable of surviving in almost any environment. Its seed pods are slow to grow and mildly poisonous, but were cultivated for medicinal purposes. Several types of Thorntail are known, with medicinal experts finding hybrids that have a soothing sap. There are even rumours of a variant that has grown hardy brambles, which are designed to dissuade attackers or bind intruders.

[h3]Monument Mushroom[/h3]



“Only eat if you have no other options. The shade they provided was well welcomed.”

A strange fungus that grows to immense size. It absorbs and neutralises corruption. They enjoy the natural shade and humidity that the Canyons provide. Monument shelves can come in many different forms and sizes and, while edible, the toxins running through them make them less than palatable.

[h3]Rainbloom Cactus[/h3]



“The holy grail of edible desert plants. I could eat these for days. The saving grace of this wasteland.”

A flowering cactus that can survive the harsh desert. It once bloomed in the rain, but will now give up its fruit in exchange for some gentle encouragement from your flask. The fruit is surprisingly tasty, with a slightly sour undertone. It is incredibly juicy and, as such, is ideal as a travel snack.



The rest of the pages are torn, the ink faded. Perhaps, though, there may be a way to restore them?


If you liked this field guide, let us know what plants you’d like to see next in the comments!


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What’s got the frogs croaking with joy?


Finding out that our Wildmender merch has launched! 🐸


We’re trialling out some brand new merch with two designs available - our stunning Wildmender Nature Circle soundtrack logo and an adorable Halloween design! Grab those Halloween goodies while you can though, because we’ll be discontinuing that design at the end of November 🎃




These designs may not ever go on sale again, so pick them up while you can!

Purchase yours now!


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Have you got any merch design ideas yourself?


Let us know in the comments or on Discord, and if there is a strong enough interest, we’ll make more!

Header Image made by Wolfeen

And the last known survivor plants their seeds in the night. And she's watching us all with the eye of the tiger. 🐯


Naia, the Mother of Rivers and Goddess of Water and Growth, is the first god you will meet on your journey through the desert in Wildmender. This gentle tiger goddess once ruled the luscious dunes, before the wraiths turned them into a wasteland. With you by her side, she wants to take back the dunes and restore this barren landscape to its former glory, one seed at a time.


“Water is life, life is water, and Naia the mother of both.”




Despite concerns from some of the other gods, Naia brought you back into the world of Wildmender to help restore the wastelands and free them from corruption. The dunes she once ruled were home to many farmers and medicinal experts, but that’s long since been forgotten. Her nurturing eye isn’t trained on the rivers alone, as she keeps you under her watchful gaze and protects you along your journey like a loving parent. At times, it may seem like she’s hiding some of her past and powers, even from you.





Naia will provide aid to you throughout your adventure. Using water and essence, she can create Blessed Drops, which can either be consumed for water, as an antitoxin, or used to restore blocked springs throughout the world.


Take a Tarnished Talisman to her and she can restore it to be a Flame Talisman - shifting the power of fire away from the vicious wraiths and into your hands.


Oh, and don’t forget to bring her favourite offering - Acorns! They may be the key to your goal of restoration.

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Header image by Crazyoutlaw27.

Want to know about the other gods? See our deep dives on Gleb and Stryge!

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