Beyond the Map News

[p]General[/p]

• [p]New movement system should completely prevent clipping with both mouse and keyboard movement.
  As a side effect, you can now drop off ledges. Climbing up will be added in a future update.[/p]
• [p]All worlds now include 2 additional snowy islands with high-level skeletons, making it easier to farm high-level items.
  These islands will remain until Q4 2025, when dungeons arrive and become the main source of high-level gear.[/p]

[p]Skills[/p]

• [p]Roll cooldown reduced to 6 seconds, with Agility now having a smaller effect on reducing it further.[/p]
• [p]Void Orb now correctly deals 100% SP damage per second (was 20%).[/p]
• [p]New melee-focused skill: Charge, dropped by 1+ star Drowned Warriors.[/p]

[p]Items[/p]

• [p]Newly crafted and looted boots will always roll with movement speed.[/p]
• [p]Reduced stat scaling for higher-level items.[/p]
• [p]Rare affixes "+8–12% Strength/Agility/Intellect" replaced with bonus damage to specific skills (Charge, Rapid Fire, Void Orb).[/p]
• [p]All weapons now properly receive their intended legendary affixes instead of random ones.[/p]

[p]Misc[/p]

• [p]Improved performance when loading a world and moving through areas with many trees or built objects.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug that could cause crashes when approaching certain locations or when loading a world.[/p]
• [p]Wooden arrows removed; other arrows are now crafted in stacks of 50 and require fewer resources.[/p]
• [p]Turtle's Wisdom now stacks to 50, increasing damage by 1% per stack. The chance to gain a stack of Tension increased to 150%.[/p]
• [p]Scholar's Portal no longer disappears randomly.[/p][p][/p]

[p]Sep 8 Hotfixes [/p]

• [p]Terrain cliffs are smoother now, with fewer spots where you can get stuck.,[/p]
• [p]If you do get stuck, there's now an Unstuck option in the pause menu, which resets your respawn point and kills your character.,[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug that caused the default respawn point to be slightly below the terrain, often leading to respawning in the water beneath it.[/p]

[p]Base Building[/p]

• [p]You should no longer clip through the floor.
  Known issues: this may still happen when spawning or when building over deep water.[/p]
• [p]Base structures now have better resistance to higher-level enemy attacks.[/p]
• [p]Sharp Stakes now deal 100% of the damage they take back to enemies attacking them in melee range (was a fixed amount).[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug that caused base structures to be vulnerable to Arcane damage (most importantly, Ghost explosions).[/p]
• [p]Storage Boxes can now be placed under Packing Tables.[/p]

[p]Bugs[/p]

• [p]Fixed a bug that caused enemies to camp endlessly at the player's death spot.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug that caused +Slash and +Pierce damage affixes to incorrectly increase Fire damage.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug that caused wands to consume arrows.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug that caused save file corruption if the game was closed during world loading.[/p]

[p]Misc[/p]

• [p]Raft no longer requires a rope and now sails 20% faster.[/p]
• [p]Enemies no longer attack portals.[/p]
• [p]World loading is now faster.[/p]
• [p]Bosses no longer follow players into the ocean.[/p]
• [p]Nighttime raiders can no longer have more than 1 star (and the strongest of them can't have any).[/p]

[p]While big updates are still being worked on, this patch addresses the most important issues players reported within the first two days after launch.

General[/p]

• [p]New option: Friendly Fire (off by default) - allows damage to player-built objects.[/p]
• [p]Night spawns are now less frequent, contain fewer enemies, and can no longer incorrectly spawn inside player bases.[/p]
• [p]Teleporting now grants an aura that makes enemies ignore you for 10 seconds or until you attack.[/p]

[p][/p][p]World[/p][p]Some issues with world generation caused entities to be missing or to never respawn.[/p][p]⚠️Unfortunately, these fixes only apply to newly created worlds:[/p]

• [p]Islands are now larger and should always contain the intended content (specifically Ghosts).[/p]
• [p]Most enemies now respawn properly within 2-4 in-game days.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where islands ignored the world seed, which caused different layouts of POIs with the same seed.[/p]

[p]Note: you can play the same character across multiple worlds.[/p][p][/p][p]Transmutation[/p][p]Originally planned as part of Alchemy (which didn't make it into launch).[/p][p]For now, 3 new recipes are available at the Spellforge:[/p]

• [p]Linen to Copper[/p]
• [p]Linen to Tin[/p]
• [p]Silk to Iron[/p]

[p][/p][p]Misc[/p][p]Some of these fixes had already been implemented earlier but were not documented:[/p]

• [p]Skeletons now drop more Silk.[/p]
• [p]Bosses can no longer be frozen.[/p]
• [p]Ironhead Arrows now correctly appear at the Workbench after discovering Iron Bars.[/p]
• [p]Fixed several localization issues where text was missing or incorrect.[/p]
• [p]Freezing damage reduced from 10% to 5% health per second, and now starts closer to the coast.[/p]
• [p]Silver Lockboxes now contain 2-3 Silver (was 1-2).[/p]
• [p]Enemies no longer chase players into the deep ocean.[/p]
• [p]Ghosts now have a higher chance to drop Ghostweave.[/p]
• [p]Drowned Cook's Enrage now lasts 5 seconds and no longer stacks (still dispellable with bone piles).[/p]

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Next patch:
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[p]Beyond the Map has officially launched in Early Access, and you can grab it now with a 10% launch discount. [/p][p]This is just the beginning − here's what you can dive into today, and what’s coming next:[/p][hr][/hr][h2]What's in the game right now[/h2]

• [p]Procedural world with multiple islands[/p]
• [p]Level cap at 30[/p]
• [p]2 biomes, each featuring its own boss, resources, and equipment tier[/p]
• [p]Plenty of rare and legendary items to hunt down[/p]

[hr][/hr][h2]Roadmap has been moved to a separate post:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2896380/discussions/0/707749927473701537/[/h2][hr][/hr][h2]Beyond that?[/h2][p]That's up to you! I've got plenty of ideas, but your feedback will shape where the game goes next. Play, experiment, and let me know what you'd love to see added or improved.[/p][hr][/hr][p]
Thanks so much for the support, and have fun![/p]

[p]Today, Beyond the Map's demo crossed 20,000 players - thank you all! ❤️ [/p][p]That's a great milestone to wrap things up. [/p][p]The demo will go offline tomorrow as I focus on polishing the full version.[/p][p][/p][p]Join the Official Discord: https://discord.gg/dz4MzD2YUW[/p][p]Talk to other players, vote in #polls, post your #feedback and #bug-reports, and show your loot in #item-showcase![/p]