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Hotfix 1437 | Animals Carcasses Fix and Visual Fixes

Hello, Fountain Seekers!

We released a small hotfix to address the issues reported since the update release.


[h3]Here's the list of changes:[/h3]
  • Fixed issues with grass loading in the first and third regions (including grass growing through the floor).
  • Fixed the issue with animal carcasses not disappearing in traps. Unfortunately, this won’t affect carcasses that are currently in traps, those won’t disappear.
  • Fixed textures of the Bamboo Flask.
  • Fixed textures of equipment made of leaves.

[h3]Known Issues[/h3]
  • Small Palms don't regrow from stumps right now. Coconut, Date, and Chinese Palms have no issues.

Huge thanks for your reports! As always, you can share them in the comments, at [email protected], and on our official Discord server!

The Survival: Fountain of Youth Team


Patch 1433 | Trees Respawning, Game Optimization, and More

Greetings, Fountain Seekers!

Patch 1433 is ready to be downloaded! This time we bring you some long-awaited features — yes, trees, finally! — as well as a whole bunch of improvements, changes, and bug fixes.

As always, thank you for providing us with feedback and suggestions for the new update!

So, let’s jump into some details, shall we?


[h3]NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS[/h3]
  • The number one requested feature is in the game — trees respawn now! Finally, you don’t have to choose between a big proper base and saving the ecology of the Survival: Fountain of Youth’s world. Just remember to leave a stump for the tree to regrow — and in a certain number of days, you’ll be able to chop it off once again!
  • Art assets/textures optimization. Can’t promise you’ll be able to launch the game on a calculator now, but as a result, players should experience reduced memory consumption, better game performance, and higher fps. Please note that some textures are not final yet, we'll continue polishing them, as we consider the visual part of the game as important as its performance.
  • Improved animals’ behavior and animations in battle. A bit more natural and less scripted, a bit more diverse, and a bit easier to control with a new red highlight before the attack (Animal Attack Indication — you can turn it off in Controls).
  • Improved Barrel which contains up to 60 units of liquid. Storing water is as important as gathering it!
  • Animals’ carcasses now disappear over time. Just 3 days and you can say goodbye to your pet cemetery!
  • Native support for Sony DualSense (PS5) and Sony DualShock 4 (PS4) controllers.

[h3]BUGFIXES[/h3]
  • Fixed the visibility of the ignition failure.
  • Fixed long loading time when traveling from the first region to any other.
  • Fixed the bug with a quiver disappearing when trying to equip it.
  • Fixed the bug with a stingray getting stuck in the monolith and electrocuting when approaching it.
  • Fixed several bugs with loading save slots.
  • Fixed interactive objects that couldn’t be interacted with.
  • Fixed the bug with Set of Tools counting as an inventory item until it is dropped and retaken.
  • Fixed the bug when a character could catch the Burning Sun and Heat statuses while standing in the shadow.
  • Visual improvements.
  • Localization fixes.
  • Multiple small fixes.

[h3]WHAT'S NEXT[/h3]
The Snake region is coming! It is being shaped, built, tuned, filled with features, and tested — and after today’s release, it has our full focus. While we can’t give you any specific dates or details just yet, we promise not to leave you in the dark and share our development news as we move closer and closer to day X! And we’ll definitely have some interesting things to share!

The Survival: Fountain of Youth Team

Six months in Early Access!

Hello, Fountain Seekers!

Exactly six months ago, on April 19th, Survival: Fountain of Youth landed in Early Eacces. Our whole team is saying a huge thanks to all of you for supporting us, establishing this awesome community, and sharing feedback and ideas that helped shape the game into what it is now.

To celebrate this humble yet very important anniversary, we want to share some curious facts and numbers behind players' achievements:


Thanks again for supporting us so far and being the best community out there!

The Survival: Fountain of Youth Team

Patch 1397 | No-HUD Feature, Rotten Food Destruction, and More

Hello, Fountain Seekers!

It's time for a monthly development update! V. 1397 is live adding some quality-of-life improvements and addressing several pressing issues.

Hope you've been enjoying the latest content patch as we've been enjoying receiving your feedback! We cannot express enough gratitude for your continuous support, streams, funny screenshots, comments, and, of course, bug reports.

And now, to the changes!



[h3]IMPROVEMENTS[/h3]
  • ‘Faint and respawn’ can be done without penalty once per region. So, if you get stuck, you can use it one time in a region without losing items in your inventory. That being said, we'll still try to come up with a more sophisticated unstuck option for the future.
  • Astrologers proclaim the week of cleaning your containers: rotten food and small animal remains have the ‘Destroy’ button now. The ability to destroy big carcasses needs some additional work but is also on the way!
  • No HUD-feature. No need to describe it: just go to Settings > Controls > Hide UI. The time for your awesome wallpapers from the game has come!
  • Blocking ability now works against sharks (but please note that a weapon works even better).
  • We've added the system for determining recommended graphics settings for the first launch of the game. The game will choose the most suitable graphic settings depending on the RAM and VRAM capacity.

[h3]BUGFIXES[/h3]
  • Fixed the bug with traps when it was impossible to interact with animal remains in a trap
  • Fixed the bug with not being able to place an improved floor on an improved pole
  • Fixed the bug with a Portable Leaf Bed disappearing when pressing the Drop button
  • Fixed the description of the primitive trap not matching its mechanics
  • Fixed the bug with the stack continuing to move to the character's inventory when hovering the mouse cursor over a stack of items in a container
  • Multiple small fixes

[h3]WHAT'S NEXT[/h3]
In the meantime, we are neck-deep in development, concentrating on improving the game's performance, working on the next region, and addressing some of your most popular suggestions. Survival: Fountain of Youth will be bigger, with more features and content. We can promise that.

The Survival: Fountain of Youth Team

Hotfix 1374 | Throwing Book Fix, Ship Barrels Fix, and More

Hello, Fountain Seekers!

We’ve just released Hotfix 1374, addressing several important issues.


[h3]Here's the list of changes:[/h3]
  • Fixed the issue with the Throwing book on Iron Island that didn't add a new effect.
  • Fixed issues with loading of some saves.
  • To build an Improved Smelter, you now need a Copper Ingot.
  • Updated Learning II and Learning IV descriptions (not retroactive).
  • Fixed holes in the rocks near the temple on Iron Island where a character could get stuck.
  • Fixed the issue with the game freezing when trying to read a book near the fire.
  • Several minor fixes.

Huge thanks for your reports! Feel free to share your feedback in the comments, at [email protected], and on our official Discord server!

The Survival: Fountain of Youth Team