Age of Survival News

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Hello! I am aware of a big issue that has been happening with the game now live, and the server on AWS running at higher capacity.

I have woken up the last couple days, and even looked at the server in the middle of the day to see that it has crashed.

When the server crashes, and isn't shut down properly the players on that server will lose whatever progress they have made in between the last time the server was shut down properly.

I will be posting an update soon here within the next couple days that will make tghe server save files every 5 minutes or so, or when a player logs out of the game, instead of only when the server is shut down using the shut down command.

I apologize if you have lost buildings or progress because of this, it is my goal this week to fix that, so if the server crashes for some reason players will only lose progress from the last 5 minutes, instead of the last time the server was properly shut down.


I was informed about this bug early on, and i got you guys, give me a few days.

I'm not sure why the server crashes, i'm running the game on AWS servers, at the medium server setting, so it's quite possible it gets overloaded at some point, or other factors may be making it crash,

I can't see anything in the server logs as to why it is doing that. I'll make this my first priority to fix before anything else.

The game is now released, people have been able to log in and play it, with multiple people online!

Here are my plans for the next month release , whcih I'd like to get out in the middle of september or so.

- Steam achievements.

-A more advanced animal AI (herding behavior for animals like the wildebeest, and better behavior when the animals are being attacked , or need to flee or be agressive, or both.

- Procedural spawning and de spawning of fish underwater based on the player's location. (there are a few small fish groups spawned regularly now as an example but do not despawn yet like the land AI do.

- integration of an anti cheat system like easy anti cheat

- any small bug sixes in game that need to be adressed

- fixed arrow crafting recipe
- fixed wildebeest corpse harvesting
- fixed tubers not spawning from certain bushes

I have just uploaded the 2024 update of Age of Survival! It is a very early build still.

I originally built the game in the Unity engine, and as everyone knows it wasn't a good release, for a lot of reasons. I behaved badly towards the community and bad reviews. A lot of bad things happened, no more excuses can be made and my focus is to move forward on the project.

Moving forward this release is fully multiplayer enabled. I have one dedicated server runnig in the USA WEST region, which can accept 20 concurrent players at one time.

I have included the server files for you guys, which you can run online yourselves. In your game folder you will see a folder for the server files.

You need to open tcp/udp port 7777, and also tcp/udp port 27015 on your router to be able to run a dedicated server from your machine.

You can edit the server name, the number of players the server will accept, and the spawn rates of items for your servers in the server folder on steam, under AOS2023/content/ServerConfig.json

Open that file with notepador etc and configure the file to your liking.



I have not updated the store graphics as of yet, it is 10 pm on a tuesday night........... and TBH I don't have a lot of multiplayer video footage for a trailer. I would like you guys to take your best videos if you are into it, and post them here on this post! I will use your videos, and still pics for the steam page, and the new steam trailer.




There are a lot of bugs.......... I'm going to list what I am aware of here :

THe in game menus when you are playing in the map are kinda crappy to navigate through. Press I to get to the inventory menu , then navigate through all the other menus through there... but you have to go back to the inventory menu and press I to close that all out. I realize crappy UI developemnt. I will work on that for the next update.

The animal AI is VERY basic. This project has been a huge learning experience, and the AI (as well as the whole project), is blueprinted from scratch. My known issues with the AI, besides the basic behavior are that the agressive AI will freeze up and then decide to pursuit the player in certain situations. THe passive AI seems to behave pretty well, although also being a pretty basic AI behavior.

There's not much underwater yet to explore, although there are two shipwrecks under the map, and some small coral reefs i painted out by hand.

The animals on land are spawned out in a procedural fassion, but there's no procedural fish spawned out yer in the water in this build. I just need to do a check for certain parameters within the players radius to the spawn zones to be able to make tha thappen, and make sure they spawn underwaer and stay there.

There are some physics oddness with ragdolls when you kill an animal.... the wildebeest is ok, but because of the size of the rhino and it's collision settings it may act oddly with the player when you kill it and loot it.

Otherwise the majority of the structure of the game is in place....

I'm considering this a shadow release, and I'm going to go to bed because I have to work in the morning.

I will post a video, and more info tomorrow and the rest of the week as I can.


Help me by posting your gameplay links here!