Project Castaway News

• Item pickups, carriables, low vitals alerts, AI harvesting and loading screen localization.
  
• Added quest items UI: Items closer than 25m on the horizontal axis and 40m on the vertical axis will have a pop-up UI, guiding you towards it.
  

• Fixed quest items and blueprints going under meshes sometimes. The fix is also applied on saves, you can load a save file and it will correctly reposition itself to the nearest spawn point.
  
• Fixed blueprint not visible if looked from above water.
  
• Fixed meat getting huge upon rotting on rack.
  
• Fixed standing torch fire not following torch correctly on raft.
  
• Fixed bug reports input: Moving the mouse or pressing WASD no longer unfocuses the input field.
  
• Fixed tutorial directional arrow not showing when loading a save file.
  

• Improved bug reports API: Players no longer have to manually share save files or contact the developers on Discord or Steam - You can fully take advantage of the report system. Keep in mind that no follow-up can be made, but you may leave a contact (discord or email) when reporting.
  

• Added voice slider to the audio settings.
  
• Added more clear messages when something can't be added to the compost bin.
  

• Fixed infinite immortal sharks.
  
• Fixed wrong far island calculation, causing framerate drops near the shores.
  
• Fixed missing playable button on the Escape quest upon loading a previous save.
  
• Fixed death screen UI calculating survived time wrongly, which also caused times to go into negatives.
  
• Fixed inability to add fuel to fires sometimes.
  
• Fixed extreme speed when jumping, more obvious when bunnyhopping.
  
• Fixed progress bar appearing on the water collector when you build a campfire near it.
  
• Fixed inability to destroy water collector.
  
• Fixed angled rack having no collision.
  
• Fixed pepper and coffee plants being too bright compared to the rest.
  
• Fixed low framerates on saved games sometimes.
  
• Fixed an issue causing loaded saves to not start at all.
  
• Fixed an issue causing loaded saves to start with no grass and no quest tracker.
  
• Fixed an issue causing insta-death on loaded saves.
  

• Fishing rod returns metal scrap when disassembled.
  
• You are able to decompose more things.
  
• You can slice banana leaves for decomposing.
  
• You get at least one item back when destroying things that have low requirements. This means you get Wilson back when destroying the scarecrow.
  
• Improved loot from wrecks.
  
• Lowered shark axe teeth requirement.
  

• Fixed backpack not accounting full inventory, allowing the player to infinitely pickup things.
  
• Fixed cooked food giving the same stats as its raw versions.
  
• Fixed raw fish fillet not giving any proteins.
  
• Fixed raft physics going crazy when you place things on top, especially adding things to the storages or campfires.
  
• Fixed raft rudder causing raft physics to once again go crazy.
  
• Fixed raft sails continuous force even when it's out of water, causing a glitchy raft to never come back again.
  
• Fixed built structures inside the raft loading with strange rotation.
  
• Fixed an issue caused by demolishing campfires, smokers and barrel stoves.
  
• Fixed inability to craft bugnet.
  

• Food replenishes roughly 50% more hunger.
  
• Low vitamins and proteins only affect 50% of the max hunger restore from an item. This means if you are low nutrients, you can at least partially satisfy your hunger.
  
• Proteins and vitamins are more balanced. Meat leans more towards proteins, while vegetables and fruits lean more towards vitamins.
  
• Hunger depletion rate is now 50% slower (full stomach lasts twice as long).
  
• Hunger starts at 75% instead of 50%.
  
• Increased meat rack longevity from 2x to 4x.
  

Modern life, as Blur would say, is rubbish. It's too complicated, there's too much going on, it's all too busy and fast and simplicity is impossible to find. That's why the call of the desert island is so strong, being dropped on beautiful sands with no worries other than shelter, food, and water, seems increasingly seductive. Thankfully there are games like Project Castaway to let us know that it's not all flowers and roses, especially when you're losing your grip on what remains of your sanity.

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