Wayward News

• Added a new selectable "Protected" item feature instead of only being able to apply it to equipped/quickslotted items. You can hover over items and use "P" or right-click them and select the "Protect" option to protect items.
  

• Reduced the amount of delay after swapping positions or being blocked by creatures.
  
• "Carve with Tool" action will no longer use "Protected" items.
  
• Item tooltips are now updated as changes are made to the item.
  
• The sort menu for crafting/inventory dialogs is now ordered based on frequently used selections and shows which is the default in each case.
  
• Quality is no longer included when sorting by name (except in the cases of legendary types).
  
• Spruce cones can now be used for stoking fires.
  
• Removed delay from some actions that did not require it and added it for those that required it to fix quickslot usage issues.
  
• Removed "Protected Crafting Items" and "Protect Crafting Items for Containers" in favor of the new individual item protection system.
  

• Fixed sorting by name doing a reverse sort and the reverse sort doing a normal sort.
  
• Fixed multiple multiplayer desyncs related to owners of tamed creatures disconnecting.
  
• Fixed a glitched item highlighting feature when hovering over boosted skills (from legendary effects) in your skills dialog. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
  
• Fixed a multiplayer desync that occurred when players attempted to rejoin the server if they previously left while sleeping/resting.
  
• Fixed an error when updating the mod.json file of a mod after publishing, and added a new, more correct & useful warning for if a situation like this happens again.
  
• Fixed being able to join the server as a local game if in the process of connecting the server shut down.
  
• Fixed "Navigator" milestone triggering incorrectly. (Thanks Lardi!)
  
• Fixed an oversight that made it so tiered treasure chests did not have ever-increasing item quality chances. (Thanks Franck!)
  

• Increased the health and damage of many mid-tier creatures.
  
• Reduced damage blocked by parrying slightly.
  
• Low tier treasure chests will now only provide copper-based tools, armor, and weapons. High tier treasure chests will provide wrought-iron drops instead of iron.
  
• Treasure chests that are lockpicked will now be damaged, reducing usability when disassembling.
  

• Added support for mods that are bigger than 100MB.
  
• Improved performance of uploading/downloading workshop files.
  
• Modded status effect renderers can now cancel base-game layer rendering. (Thanks Saervok!)
  
• Added support for skipping walk to tile's blocked tile check.
  
• Leftover Steam Cloud files are now cleaned up after publishing mods.
  

• Crafts are now defaulted to sort by discovered time due to performance concerns.
  
• Improved the performance of sorting, filtering, and updates to the inventory and crafting dialogs.
  
• Upgraded Wayward to TypeScript 4.
  

• No longer gets stuck when attempting to travel past open fire.
  
• Fixed TARS sometimes getting stuck when trying to carve a corpse if it doesn't have an item that can carve.
  
• Will prefer rocks over rock ground when looking for a sharp rock.
  
• Protects swords from being used when dismantling.
  
• No longer thinks the world is round.
  
• Won't try to dig under chests anymore.
  
• Will now reinforce good equipment when its durability gets low.
  
• Fixed getting stuck if an NPC walked in its way.
  
• Fixed loop of taking and removing items from chests when near max weight.
  

• Added a /backup chat command for dedicated servers.
  

• Improved the accuracy of the anatomy-based "mostly uninjured" message by adding a case for full health creatures/players/NPCs. (Thanks Ursa!)
  
• The save game button is now hidden for clients in multiplayer games.
  
• Removed "Reputation" messages from the "Chat" message filter by default.
  
• Removed vagueness in wording for enchant/transmogrify actions. (Thanks Ursa!)
  
• Player "turns" now start as 1 instead of 0.
  
• Added a new "Events" message filter type and added several messages that were not categorized/miscategorized before.
  

• Fixed traveling to the west and east always producing the same island.
  
• Fixed errors and desyncs related to fish and other creatures moving at the edge of the world.
  
• Fixed auto save options only appearing in quick settings (and removed it from there as well). (Thanks Amax!)
  
• Fixed clients in multiplayer games not receiving credit for Navigator and Helmsman milestones.
  
• Fixed dedicated servers not saving fog of war of players when running in console mode.
  
• Fixed creatures being forced to spawn over tiles they shouldn't when gathering treasure. (Thanks riftborn!)
  
• Fixed updating binds not showing on quickslots until a restart.
  
• Prevented new players that join non-pvp dedicated servers that switched islands from spawning at the edge of the map.
  
• Fixed renamed items reverting when canceling a rename action. (Thanks Azhukar!)
  
• Fixed weight not being updated when attempting to paddle when a boat was placed within a container.
  
• Fixed penguins providing an incorrect reputation amount when killing them. (Thanks Ursa!)
  
• Fixed instances of players in multiplayer games rejoining as new characters if the game was ever closed without a save (due to crashes or incorrect server shutdowns).
  
• Fixed walk to tile failing if a tamed creature is in the way but cannot be swapped.
  
• Fixed containers staying open when they were dropped into the void or deep water.
  
• Fixed mods breaking with "!" in the game's path. (Thanks Cth!)
  
• Removed the "You see a fire spread uncontrollably." message from the "Reputation" message filter. (Thanks Amax!)
  
• Fixed sailboats not warning about breakage on use.
  
• Fixed eating aloe vera leaves also "applying" them, curing the burned status effect. (Thanks Ursa!)
  
• Fixed saved opened containers not showing their name or calculating their weight.
  
• Fixed some tiepos. (Thanks Ursa!)
  

• Increased the amount of glue/resin required to fully reinforce normal quality items, while reducing the amount required as quality increases (was previously the reverse of these rules).
  

• Fixed mod publishing erroring when publishing a mod with comments in its mod.json file.
  
• Fixed the wayward +mod update command not updating the waywardVersion property in the mod.json file.
  
• Fixed JSON comments not being supported with wayward +mod command.
  

• Improved performance when dismantling, disassembling, and many other item interactions. (Thanks Arnkh!)
  
• The launch_options.json file can now have comments.
  

• Fixed getting stuck by a tree if there was a corpse on top of it.
  
• Will no longer try to repair kindling items.
  
• Will now disable right hand when it's a shield. The left hand equip will try to be the appropriate damage type against the nearest creature.
  
• Fixed failing to run away from creatures when at low health.
  
• Will destroy trees more often if they are in the way of quicker pathing.
  
• Fixed harvestable trees being ignored when searching for items.
  
• Added the ability to create and use multiple water containers.
  
• Will attempt to carry multiple kindling items in the inventory to start fires easier.
  
• TARS will maintain a tidy base by moving items that are on the ground into chests after it obtains a leather armor set.
  
• Will carry food, water, and a bandage with it before attempting to upgrade weapons and armor past leather.
  
• Will no longer get stuck attempting to move to the same targets over and over.
  
• Now always uses a knife when a recipe requires a sharpened to stop ruining swords!
  
• Will no longer be scared of sharks when wearing decent equipment.
  
• Will leave extra items at the base before moving far away.
  
• No longer attempts to run away from targets that do not move, getting stuck.
  
• Fixed TARS sometimes trying to dig/carve when it can't.
  
• Will prioritize crafting items when all the requirements are within inventory (stops filling inventory up before crafting).
  
• Will craft items that require a furnace/anvil more reliably (hopefully).
  
• Will now return to drop off items at base once it's carrying too much.
  
• Added the ability to create and use multiple water stills.
  

• Added a new "Drop on Dismantle" option.
  
• Added a new note for hunger/starvation.
  

• Containers now re-open when reloading a game or traveling.
  
• Items crafted now properly checks your inventory and containers within your inventory in order, instead of checking sub-containers last. (Thanks riftborn!)
  
• Clicking the clear/exit button in filters now removes focus from the filter.
  

• Fixed a crash involving the skills dialog. (Thanks Levvy!)
  
• Fixed cases where extinguished lit doodads (like furnaces, campfires, etc.) could decay and become destroyed. (Thanks Ursa!)
  
• Fixed an issue where inputs could become "stuck" on after typing in the crafting/inventory filters. (Thanks Jiamil!)
  
• Fixed creatures being able to walk over NPCs.
  
• Fixed treasure being able to spawn in void in cave layers. (Thanks Vardis!)
  
• Fixed macro bindings being lost on reload.
  
• Fixed the wrong terrain type being set when placing down tiles in the "Ice Cap" region. (Thanks Vardis!)
  
• Fixed world tooltips not working after dragging and dropping an item to the game screen. (Thanks Vardis!)
  
• Fixed duplicate messages showing up when rejoining multiplayer games.
  
• Fixed needing to use the "Show More Information" bind once after changing the "Always Show More Information" option. (Thanks Amax!)
  
• Fixed render depth/order not working correctly at certain positions on the map. (Thanks Amax!)
  
• Fixed macro input being doubled up and reset at the wrong times, causing double click to sometimes not work on items. (Thanks riftborn!)
  
• Fixed join server retry button not always working correctly.
  
• Fixed multiplayer clients sometimes displaying messages for other players.
  
• Fixed save interrupts not always showing.
  
• Fixed permanently burning not reducing player health in the challenge mode at certain health/strength values.
  
• Fixed some status effects not properly affecting regeneration/reduction of stats.
  
• Fixed "Worth" item value dropping unexpectedly due to reinforcement/durability calculations. (Thanks Vardis!)
  
• Fixed damage notifiers moving sporadically after killing creatures while moving.
  
• Fixed ash appearing over rock/impassible terrain. (Thanks riftborn!)
  
• Fixed the permanently poisoned challenge modifier reducing player strength/health to very low values.
  
• Fixed the "Operator" milestone not being obtainable. (Thanks Caerold!)
  
• Display the correct message when gathering/harvesting if the "Drop on Gather/Harvest" option was enabled but the tile beneath you was full.
  
• Fixed stats not showing properly after loading a save game that uses milestone modifiers until one turn has passed.
  
• Fixed dedicated servers timing out (and not reconnecting to matchmaking server) after traveling on lower-end hardware.
  
• Fixed milestone modifiers not applying after travel. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
  
• Fixed the "Explorer" milestone being unobtainable. (Thanks Oragepoilu!)
  
• Fixed closing the action menu with a click off of the menu not showing tooltips afterward in certain instances. (Thanks AxelDominatoR!)
  
• Fixed quickslots changing item types when using items that turned into others.
  
• Fixed solar stills being referred to as water stills in some cases. (Thanks Vardis!)
  
• Fixed several cases of capitalization issues in notes. (Thanks Ursa!)
  
• Fixeded some typos. (Thanks riftborn!) (Thanks Vardis!)
  
• Fixed incorrect upgrade check on saves, leading to very large saves after repeated loads. (Thanks Amax!) (Hotfixed)
  
• Fixed multiple multiplayer desyncs related to merchants, wells, and creature movement/offering. (Hotfixed)
  
• Fixed the backup command not backing up if backups weren't enabled. (Hotfixed)
  

• Permanent status effect challenges will no longer modify player strength/health or give additional healing items. They are balanced through their effect rates now.
  
• Made stoke values for items consistent. (Thanks 𝕽𝖆𝖓𝖉!)
  

• Comments are now supported in mod JSON files (mod.json, language files, etc), using Microsoft's jsonc-parser module. (Thanks Amax!)
  
• Fixed modded items with undefined weight causing your weight to show as NaN.
  
• Fixed status effect icon paths not being relative to mod directory.
  

• In-game messages are now once again logged to the console & log files.
  
• Fixed source map warnings showing in developer console.
  

• Lava will no longer count as a valid tile to spawn on. (Thanks Amax!)
  

• Added a new item group to all troposphere items and added additional groups to all items that matched ones from the base game.
  
• Snowflakes can now be used as "liquid" items or used for drinking and can be found via storm stones or boulders rarely.
  

• Added /DebugToolsPermission chat command. This lets dedicated servers enable debug tools for players.
  

• Will no longer kill itself while resting repeatedly in multiplayer or real-time games when hungry.
  
• Will no longer eat grass seeds.
  
• Fixed TARS not always functioning correctly after respawning if permadeath was disabled.
  
• Fixed more water still issues.
  
• Fixed issues with gathering water.
  
• Fixed TARS sometimes getting stuck in infinite loops when trying to acquire items.
  
• Will now attempt to only move items TARS needs into its inventory when gathering and dismantling items.
  
• Fixed being unable to repair copper items.
  

• Added a custom game options to disable traveling effects for all players or just offline players.
  

• New islands are now deterministic and based on the original seed.
  
• Turns now pass normally when players are ghosts.
  
• Changed order of custom game options based on perceived frequent/important usage.
  
• Removed the ability to trade with merchants after they had already moved away from your facing position (while in multiplayer).
  
• Void tiles will now be placed on the edges of all cave layers for compatibility with old saves.
  
• Links in the changelog menu now appear the same way as other links.
  

• Fixed seeds with large numbers not being saved properly. (Thanks ODevil!)
  
• Seeds are now sanitized, preventing potential strange terrain generation with unorthodox values.
  
• Fixed performing actions from item menus moving the menu position instead of closing it after performing an action that caused the player to update their direction. (Thanks riftborn!)
  
• Fixed container dialogs changing their position/size when traveling. (Thanks num ca nem vi!)
  
• Fixed other items being used swapped as your boat after traveling in rare instances. (Thanks Caerold!)
  
• Fixed being able to move items into merchant's inventories (without trading). (Thanks Oragepoilu!)
  
• Fixed fish (and some other items) returning bones both when being cooked and when eaten. (Thanks Abs!)
  
• Fixed quickslotting containers not toggling open/close properly on hotkey press. (Thanks Caerold!)
  
• Fixed torches spawned in caves not having proper decay values set.
  
• Fixed game options not being correctly initialized for old save games. Fixes the new respawning system not being available in old save games that were set to "Casual". (Thanks AxelDominatoR!)
  
• Fixed moving not causing item menus to close (like action menus do).
  
• Fixed the export and counterclockwise buttons not working on the character selection screen at low resolutions. (Thanks Aurum!)
  
• Fixed a problem that could cause the selected mod language to not be loaded on startup. (Thanks Lovefield!)
  
• Improved reliability of traveling in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed players that log in over water not swimming by default.
  
• Fixed many multiplayer desyncs.
  
• Fixed line of sight still being applied as a ghost in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed being able to still be on your boat after traveling with PVP enabled and spawning on land.
  
• Fixed paddling facing deep water tiles extinguishing held lit torches/candles.
  
• Fixed excessive recent packet logging in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed errors when mods try to get bindings for unregistered bindables.
  
• Fixed the Helmsman milestone needing to travel to four islands instead of three. (Thanks Caerold!)
  
• Fixed fog of war resetting when rejoining dedicated servers.
  
• Fixed Steam and Discord Rich Presence showing the wrong player counts for multiplayer games.
  
• Improved the grammar in the failed to cook message. (Thanks 𝕽𝖆𝖓𝖉!)
  
• Fixed an oversight when players could attempt to travel in caves. (Thanks Arnkh!)
  
• Fixed an error when exporting save games that have not yet been loaded/saved in the latest version. (Thanks Arnkh!)
  
• Fixed joining games from Discord not initializing Steam integration correctly.
  
• Fixed an issue where clients could not move on dedicated servers. (Hotfixed)
  

• Reduced the chances of traveled to islands being "Coastal" types.
  
• Reduced obscuring effect on tattered maps slightly.
  
• Slimes will no longer combine into Jelly Cubes at reputation levels where they couldn't spawn normally.
  
• All mushrooms will no longer increase thirst/dehydration and will spawn more commonly frequently in the coastal island.
  
• Added more difficult creature spawns to "Arid" caves.
  

• Fixed invalid argument segments disappearing from output strings.
  
• Fixed the list segment not working correctly for some values.
  
• The list segment now supports {...}, formatting a list of all arguments.
  
• Fixed the escape segment not removing its own curly braces.
  
• Fixed status effect registration. (Thanks Noita!)
  
• Fixed modded status effect handlers not re-initializing on loading saved games. (Thanks Noita!)
  
• Increased reliability of publishing/updating mods. (Hotfixed)
  
• Publishing Workshop mods that contain symlinks will no longer throw errors. (Hotfixed)
  

• Various logging events will no longer be logged without "Developer Mode" enabled.
  
• Added support for enabling/disabling sync checks from commands.
  
• Reduced the amount of logging to log files.
  

• Improved logic when waiting for water from a water still in multiplayer.
  
• Removed "leave desert" functionality that no longer applies for coastal islands.
  
• Will now ensure the base is built near a suitable water source.
  
• Fixed sometimes not being able to build an anvil.
  
• Fixed being unable to repair items that require an anvil and fire.
  
• Fixed rare infinite loop when trying to move items to chests.
  
• Fixed TARS switching hands constantly after dying in some instances in casual mode.
  
• Will now respawn when dying in casual games.
  
• Fixed memory errors/issues after running for extended periods of time through multiple games.
  

Currently in Early Access, Wayward is a wilderness survival roguelike from developer Unlok and the 9th major update is out now with the Seafarer expansion.