Sons of the Forest Patch 6 is here and things are getting more complicated. At least if you want it. Last update Sons of the Forest introduces Hard Survival difficulty for the first time to one of the best co-op games this year, and also adds stone as a resource that can be collected and used to create all sorts of structures to strengthen your own defenses and build a better base Sons of the Forest.
The Hard Survival Mode is for players who enjoy the torment of finding food and water in difficult environments. When choosing this new difficulty, you will experience a decrease in the amount of food in boxes, a decrease in the number of fish and animals in the world, reduced health and stamina regeneration in the cold, an increased penalty for using raw or rotten meat, and no respawning of boxes for storing items when loading games.
Whether you like this mode or not, adding a stone to Sons of the Forest should make some buildings much stronger. This new resource can be harvested around the world and used to build stone walls, beams and columns, and stone fireplaces. Kelvin will be able to collect and use stone if you ask him to, and it can be placed in the upgraded log sled along with logs, rocks, sticks, and bones.
Among other details of the patch Sons of the Forest (which you can check out below), you will also be able to create your own stuffed animals, quickly pour out the contents of a pot or flask, and put the pot on the fire more easily by holding it. There are plenty of other small updates too: cannibals will now drag off injured friends, a rain trap won't tell you when it's ready until there's enough water to drink properly, and trapped fish will no longer rot before you've collected them. .
Sons of the Forest patch 6 release date and patch notes
Patch 6 for Sons of the Forest already out in Steam. Here are the full patch notes, courtesy of developer Endnight Games:
New opportunities
- Added Hard Survival difficulty mode.
- Added stone pickaxes to the world.
- You can build a stone fireplace, stone walls, stone beams and stone columns.
- Custom stuffed animals.
- Improved log sleds can now hold logs, rocks, stones, sticks, and bones.
Improvements
- A countdown clock has been added to the dining room under the Food & Drinks section.
- Exploded limbs have been added to the blown up bathroom in the Bunker Suite.
- The bowler hat and flask can now be dropped with the right mouse button.
- The Cooking Pot will now immediately be placed on the fire if the player is holding the Pot while interacting with the fire.
- If the fire is destroyed during cooking, the contents of the pot return to the water. The recipe is saved if the pot was ready by the time the fire was destroyed.
- Added some water movement in the pot when not boiling.
- Visual and audio improvements to the constant dripping water FX in caves.
- Improvements and fixes to the sound and visual effects of lava.
- Adding thunder sounds to lightning strikes in the space city scene in the golden room.
- The rain catcher will no longer show a refill icon until there is enough water for one glass.
- The cauldron can now be re-fired even if it contains a completed recipe.
- The hotkey UI will no longer appear in the quick select and grab bag menu, but will only be visible in the inventory.
- Added tooltips for loading Comfort and Indoor/Outdoor Sleeping ratings.
- Added a tooltip for loading bonuses for cooking.
- Fish traps now work in game time instead of real time to work better with pauses and sleep.
- Fish caught in traps will no longer rot.
- Added UI for current cooking bonuses.
- Improved user interface for cooking recipes.
- Added a new equip/unequip animation for the shotgun that is simpler and more consistent with the hold pose, so blending is smoother and less awkward.
- Cannibals will sometimes drag their dying friends away from the player.
- General optimization to reduce the cost of AI upgrades.
- Kelvin can now collect rocks.
- Kelvin can now fill a log sled with sticks, rocks, and rocks.
- Reduced some over-saturated animal spawn areas and made them more spread out.
- Fixed corpses floating in the beach cave in multiplayer games when the host player is not in the cave.
- Stuffed players cause fear in cannibals depending on the number of body parts.
- When hooking several fish on a spear, it will visually overlap each other, and not overlap.
- AI is no longer blocked by defense stick spikes, but still takes damage.
Balance in Sons of the Forest Patch 6
- Sleeping outdoors now provides less rest than sleeping indoors.
- The amount of rest a player gets now depends on their current comfort rating (some soups and clothes can affect comfort rating).
- Reduced the chance of medicines falling into crates.
- Large demons can now occasionally spawn above the ground after the game ends.
- The Lumberjack Juice recipe has been reworked to make it easier to make in non-player games.
- Hard survival has been added to the initial difficulty settings.
- Cooking buff duration changed from 8 hours to 4 hours in game time.
- Difficult survival; Reduced the respawn of food in crates. This game mode does not spawn storage boxes on load. Reduced the number of spawns of fish and animals. Reduced target's health and stamina regeneration rate when cold. Increased the penalty for raw/rotten meat.
Additional bug fixes you can find on the game page Steam.
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