Hello everyone,

the new patch has gone live and includes:

• The kunai is now stuck in the ground if it has not hit a target.
  
• We added a shrine that you can only solve together.
  
• The Potion Station Wagon Upgrade's placeholder model was replaced with finished visuals.

• We reworked some elements in the option + main menus and removed most of the weird behaviour in some menus when navigating them with a mouse.
  
• Visual improvements of rosis "Resting Stomp" upgrade.

• Range role: can now attack faster.
  
• Range role: the combo now resets faster, which makes fighting feel much better.
  
• Reduced the amount of armor for all armor challenges by 1.
  
• Increased the amount of health the enemy has per crossroads in endless mode.
  
• Increased the amount of damage players get per crossroads in endless mode.
  
• Increased the amount of health banners get per crossroads in endless mode.
  
• Reduced the score multiplier per crossroads in endless mode.

• Wrong visual effects for left and right hand while throwing knives.
  
• In the second biome, the player trader upgrades were different between host and client.
  
• It should hopefully no longer happen that the titles are not displayed correctly at the end of the game for clients.
  
• Some performance improvements (e.g. when entering the camp).
  
• Sometimes players could not join the local lobby.
  
• Sometimes some mysterious floating rings appeared in the level.
  
• The endless mode tile had a Russian translation instead of a Thai one.
  
• Chinese & Japanese glyphs didn't have the correct outline sometimes.
  
• Some font glyphs had boxes around their shape on low resolutions.
  
• Sometimes the second boss area could not load correctly, which led to consequential errors for clients.
  
• Parts of the Traveling Merchant were sometimes not affected by firelight.
  
• Cats did not stop auto attacking when you exited the menu after you opened it while holding the attack button down.
  
• Coins should not be able to spawn on top of Sydds head.
  
• You should not be able to teleport on top of Sydds head.
  
• The traveling merchant always offered free upgrades.
  
• The join menu had the wrong button propts.
  
• It was possible to insert characters into the join input field that were not allowed.
  
• In the menu, some buttons sometimes did not play a sound.
  
• Incorrect navigation icons were used in the options menu on the Steam deck.

Stay wild and pawsome! 🥰

Hello adventurers,

we're excited to see how many of you are enjoying our new experimental endless mode. If you want to share your highscores and see other players' final scores, head over to our Discord[discord.gg] 👑



Bug hunting can sometimes feel more like detective work than development, so let us take you behind the scenes of the player upgrade bug:
Some of you may have come across a bug where two of the three players' upgrades were swapped in camp. At first, we thought it was a client-side bug, possibly caused by a network problem. So we built a tool to test our theory. The result was: Nothing, according to the numbers, everything was working fine. So no way to reproduce the bug 🫤 A few test sessions later, however, we had a breakthrough 🥳 The bug only occurred for the host, and only in the second biome. More importantly, only the game's visuals were suspicious. With this information, the solution was quickly found. To make a visual change in the second biome, we wanted to mirror the player's upgrade shop. This was done by adding a “-” in front of a “1” in Unity. Best of all, the solution was implemented as soon as it was found: Delete the minus 🚮
All in all, it took us several days to find the bug, but only a few minutes to implement the solution 😅

Thanks to your reports on Steam and Discord[discord.gg], we’re able to reproduce a good number of bugs quite quickly. Others take a little longer to find and fix (see our story above).

Through bug fixing and constant development, we have improved the performance of Wild Woods further.

Future Plans

• Hot Join (joining runs that have already started)
  
• Session Browser
  
  
  We hope you all have a fantastic weekend! 🌞💚