Poly Skies News

This small patch applies a fix for the vulnerability found in certain Unity Engine versions.

No impact has been detected for any users.

For more details about this vulnerability please read the following:
https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-59489

Update 2.3 has arrived. This is a small content update adding some extra décor buildings, natural population growth and various fixes.



ADDED:

• Street Sign
  
• Small bush
  
• Medium bush
  
• Tall bush
  
• Stag Statue
  
• Villagers can now reproduce! Keep an eye on your population
  
• Natural population growth limited to 100
  
• Villagers respond to being selected
  
• Villagers now visually carry various items
  

CHANGED:

• Snow can now last for days, not hours
  
• Slightly increased chance of rain and snow
  
• Airship can now be called at any time, instead of just once a week
  
• Slightly improved camera handling
  
• Shadow performance improved
  
• Portal VFX updated and performance improved
  
• Other minor performace improvements
  

FIXED:

• Missing plates on tavern benches
  

Have a chat in Discord.

Thanks,
Matt.

Update 2.2 has arrived. Although working on a new project, it's always a pleasure to come back to Poly Skies and give it some love. Please do post any bugs you find, also, I'd love to see some of your villages, you can always post them in the Discord or the Discussion boards here!


ADDED:

• New range of relaxing music (all copyright-free and streamer-friendly):
  
  1. Champ De Tournesol by Komiku
     
  2. Otjánbird Pt. I by Spheriá
     
  3. ARNOR by Alex-Productions
     
  4. Helice by Monplaisir
     
• Button to shuffle music
  
• Wind wisps
  

CHANGED:

• Vulkan Graphics API now used where supported
  

FIXED:

• Villagers phasing through their house door
  
• Villagers getting stuck in the watch balloon
  
• Airship no longer phases through ground
  
• Grass no longer hangs over island edges (new world generation)
  
• Missing building icon removed form Tier 4 popup
  
• Ambient Occlusion causing material ghosting and odd specular lighting
  
• VSync toggle no longer reversed
  
• Resolution dropdown now works correctly
  

UI:

• Updated design of build panel
  
• Tooltips are now easier to read
  
• Some button hover and click colours rolled back to green
  
• Save game deletion confirmation button is now red
  
• Save game overwrite confirmation button is now red
  
• Increased text shadow intensity slightly
  
• Darkened button bevel slightly
  
• Fixed a tooltip leaving the screen border
  
• Homeless marker now always shows
  

Have a chat in Discord.

Thanks,
Matt.

Happy Easter all! Just a small patch for you today containing some fixes and minor tweaks.

CHANGED:
- Chickens now produce slightly more eggs, more frequently
- Chickens are now included in Creative Mode resource counter

FIXED:
- Chickens are now added to resources once traded
- Villagers will now check if a building has moved without throwing errors
- Villagers are less likely to get stuck in Watch Posts

UI:
- Fixed various overlap and layout issues
- Fixed some misaligned tooltips
- Added a minor shadow to text for readability

VFX:
- Updated villager firebolt

Don't forget, if you experience any issues you can report them on the discussions board or my Discord. The demo version of the game has also been updated with the above changes.

Thanks,
Matt.

Update 2.0 has arrived, woohoo! Let's waste no time with the change list...

ADDED:

• Dynamic weather system (sun, rain, snow) ☀🌧❄
  
  • Snow pauses Plot production
• Ability to rename islands in a new panel that lists unlocked islands
  
• Ability to see labor in a new panel that lists all workplaces
  
• Buildings:
  
  • Tavern (Tier 4)
    
  • Paddock (Tier 5)
• Animals:
  
  • Chicken
    
• Resources:
  
  • Eggs
    
• New achievement: "Cracking!" Have 100 eggs in storage.
  
• Trade panel now has 2 sections, for consumables and animals
  
• Added visual filters:
  
  • Standard
    
  • Asteroid City
    
  • Calm
    
  • Warm
    
• "Continue" option in the Main Menu to load most recent save
  

CHANGED:

• Changed how objects are highlighted
  
• Camera speeds at low zoom increased
  
• Moonlight colour now has a blue tint and is slightly dimmer
  
• Changed some post-processing effects affecting colour
  
• Thin path is now thinner
  
• Storage Barn collision box is slightly smaller
  

BALANCES:

• Arborist output amount reduced from 15 to 5
  
• Arborist output rate reduced from 20 to 30 seconds
  
• Arborist growth rate increased from 30 to 20 seconds
  
• Arborist can now grow up to 12 trees at a time
  
• Exchange rate of crystal changed from 25 to 50
  
• Exchange rate of metal changed from 5 to 3
  
• Exchange rate of wood changed from 2 to 1
  
• Villager skills now max at 30. A fully trained villager will be 1.5x as fast as a villager with 0 experience in that skill
  
• Villagers will now eat up to 10 units of food when hungry instead of 6
  
• Villagers now gain 3 happiness from being at home instead of 2
  

FIXED:

• [Crash] Fixed game crashing or deleting buildings if using "Repair" on a building not damaged
  
• Quest notifications will no longer show if already in the quest menu
  
• Arborist will no longer spawn
• lots* of trees nearby
  
• Trees will now correctly save/load if they are destroyed
  
• Villagers won't get stuck if a portal they need has moved
  
• Villagers no longer get stuck at certain buildings
  
• Fading effect between scenes now works correctly
  
• Fixed a rare bug where trees couldn't be manually felled, but counted towards a quest and achievements
  
• Fishery placement checks no longer offset
  
• Windowed mode toggle no longer uses Exclusive Full Screen option
  
• Plots will now show assigned villager count on holding 'Alt'
  
• "Notify" sound will no longer immediately play on new game
  
• Village name is now sent to Steam Rich Presence when loading save file
  
• VSync and Windowed toggle now work correctly
  
• Fixed UI camera rendering incorrectly
  
• Airship now docks at mooring with animation
  

UI:

• (Yet another) UI rework
  
• Contextually placed tooltips
  
• New UI sounds
  
• Sharper font
  
• Deleting a save file now requires confirmation
  
• Sliders can now be moved without selecting the handle first
  
• Render scale slider now matches text correctly
  
• Homeless and idle villagers counter now correct on new game
  
• Villager count now includes total housing room (eg. 6/10)
  
• Villager status image in the villager list panel is now updated correctly
  
• You can no longer open the villager list if in build mode
  
• World space UI no longer freezes when game is paused
  

AI:

• Improved accuracy of the Navigation Mesh on Islands
  
• General AI stability improved
  
• Villagers now avoid obstacles in the environment
  
• Villagers will now stop sharing the same positions at certain buildings
  

PERFORMANCE:

• Arborist tree pooling algorithm improved for less memory usage
  
• Tree animations optimized and culled when not visible
  
• Audio and music compression methods updated
  
• Minimap camera optimized
  
• Improved Occlusion Culling
  
• Lamp Posts no longer cast shadows
  
• Removed light source from mine
  

If you experience any bugs please report them on the discussions board or my Discord.

Thanks,
Matt.