Greetings, Flameborn!

We'll keep this brief: Enshrouded releases tomorrow! We'll help you wait for the last day or so with an early release of our release trailer, as well as our complete changelog!

Check out our sweet trailer:

And here are the changelog's highlights.

Highlights

Finally, a full map to explore!

The full release 1.0 of Enshrouded finally lets players explore all the hidden valleys and majestic mountains of Embervale. Up in the north, beyond the now open gates past the Veilwater Basin a completely new area can be explored, the Cinder’s Cradle. Cinder's Cradle has two sides. Below, lava flows through a barren wasteland littered with the ruins of a mysterious past, some areas lost to the Shroud, others lost to time and decay. But the player's journey doesn’t end here - above the lava and ruins, the Ancients have lifted the earth to create a realm of floating islands filled with unusual fauna, intricate architecture, and unrelenting guardians. Both worlds are connected through tendrils of the Shroud, reaching ever higher to snuff out a sacred light in the Ancient midsts. 

Whilst exploring Cinder’s Cradle, a brand new threat is standing in the player’s path. Bring your best gear, upgrade it, cook the most efficient food before testing your mettle against these new formidable guardians of the last secrets of Embervale.

However, the new biome is only a part of the now complete new map. 

Two new Hollow Halls have opened their gates, one in the Albaneve Summits and one in Veilwater Basin - bring your snorkel. 

Many new areas have been added to Springlands, Blackmire and Kindlewastes specifically. These new areas expand the previous playable areas towards the edges of the world. While not as densely filled with points of interest as the central areas, they still offer many surprises and rewards for explorers - including new Shroud roots for those who need the extra skillpoints. 

As part of the main quest through the new areas, players will visit structures in the previous biomes, some of which had players wonder and desperately look for a hidden entrance for years. The time to investigate what was hidden behind these doors is now!

Bring hope to a broken world

Players finally discover the mysteries behind the Ancients and the deadly Shroud corruption - and, if all goes well, put an end to the plans that threaten all of Embervale. But it will not be easy; high up in the sky, evil is hiding its strongest champion yet. 

With update 1.0.0.0, the story of Embervale is concluded - for now. Even after dealing with the most imminent threat, the Shroud still lingers and the Fell still aim to conquer more territories. But the survivors in Embervale will now have a new sense of hope for this world - and a new inspiration to thrive, flourish and rebuild the realm. 

New levels of power

Together with the new region, a new tier of progression is unlocked. The new maximum level for the player is 50; gear can now be upgraded to a maximum level of 55.

Before entering the Cinder’s Cradle, the next Flame Level is waiting to be unlocked - which in turn will raise the maximum of Flame Altars to 15. Rumors have it that besting the biggest threat to the peace of Embervale will unlock yet another level of the Flame - with even greater might to push back the Shroud - enabling Flame Altars to shine in areas formerly unreachable. 

A new survivor, specializing in Ancient knowledge and recipes, joins the base. 

As with previous biomes, a new tier of crafting progression can be explored and over time unlocked with new equipment, tools, food and other consumables, arrows, spells, giving players the level of power needed on the new battlefield. 

The comforts back at home are certainly not forgotten; new furniture, props, building blocks and plants are unlocked as well.

Hey, listen!

All lore notes, letters, books and other texts found in the world are now fully voiced in English, German and Mandarin Chinese. 

Players can continue exploring while listening to lore notes (like an audiobook) - playback of multiple notes can be queued in a playlist. 

But it’s not just the books that talk now; all main crafting survivors and major quest-giver survivors are also now voiced in English, German and Mandarin Chinese! Perhaps now they’ll have a bit more to say than just oi… 

Advanced Adventure Sharing - The Sparkworks

Players can now create their own gameplay in their worlds using the new logic system called “Sparkworks”. The possibilities range from simple interactions like light switches over dungeons with traps, puzzles, and even enemy encounters, to… well, we think the sky’s the limit. Why not try building a challenging parkour level, or battle arenas, escape rooms - or whatever else comes to YOUR mind!

The world was pretty before; now it shines!

A new rendering technology, the “brick renderer,” is now used to truly bring the vast open world to life. It significantly improves vistas by displaying a much higher level of detail for terrain and voxel buildings at a distance. Now, instead of turning into a pile of abstract blocks, that intricate castle you made will still look great from afar!

Each biome now feels more different and unique. The various areas have specific lighting, air moisture and sky atmosphere settings, strengthening the idea of exploring a living, breathing world. 

Numerous small changes, and some really big ones, have been added under the hood to achieve the impossible. The game runs at a good level of performance with less needed memory, while at the same time looking better than ever before. One example is the improved point light shadows - while predominantly a performance increase, this change allows the engine to render more point lights than previously, which will be especially noticeable in large player bases.

We have also improved dynamic global illumination, which leads to, among other things, more vibrant colors in the Shroud and better lighting beneath large trees, in dense forests, and inside buildings. 

Also, HDR is now supported, if you have a monitor or TV that knows what to do with that.

More spells, better spells, better combat, better players

Let's start at the beginning: the completely new faction in Cinder’s Cradle brings 14 new enemy types, which with the enemy variants we’re adding to other factions, adds a total of 37 new faces roaring for a fight.

Investments also went into making all enemies just a bit smarter, better at finding their way through our complex environments, and just feeling more convincing as adversaries.

As for the players, while the changelog is full of many, many small and big improvements for all playstyles, the biggest combat focus of this update was the mage classes. We added 9 completely new types of spells to give mages more tools on the battlefield to handle challenging enemy encounters. This includes new crowd control spells, more area-of-effect damage, summons, and utility spells. Also, many additional tiers of existing spells have been created to broaden the options for mages at all stages of the progression.

• All spells now have eternal spell variations for the late game - eliminating the need to worry about running out of charges. Never again will you realize you're out of charges at the worst possible moment. Probably. 

• Eternal spells, and arrows, can now be upgraded just like weapons or other equipment.

• Players can now actively summon skeletons to fight alongside them. They work for free, never complain, and only occasionally get in the way. This, combined with new “Necromancy” weapon gems and support skills, allows players to create an impressive amount of undead minions.

• Wand gameplay has been expanded with a heavy attack that is immediately available, as well as unlockable evasive and aerial attacks as active skills. Also, wand gameplay has been improved with many small but significant fixes for selecting targets and general handling, including free aim.

• Numerous fixes, improvements and additional settings have been added for aiming with ranged weapons, allowing players to fine-tune the aim assist, enemy targeting, and much more.

• Several new skills and improvements have been added to the skill tree. Thanks to community feedback and our own experience playing the game, the balancing of the skills and equipment continued, broadening the range of meaningful choices throughout every step of the progression.

• Looking at the combat and movement of the player characters themselves, it was time to add the next layer of quality. We added many small animations to the player character to make turns, starts and stops in and out of running and sprinting more grounded and fluid, while keeping the reactivity and snappiness on the same level as in previous versions. At the same time, the camera has been improved with many, sometimes subtle tweaks and changes so that in the best case, you now completely forget that it even exists.

• Traversal on steep slopes has been reworked to make the behavior more consistent and deliberate. At the same time, issues with involuntary sliding have been fixed.

A fresh start - Early Game Improvements

We hope that with version 1.0.0.0, many new Flameborn climb out of that Cinder Vessel for the first time, ready to start exploring Embervale with fresh eyes. It was therefore a perfect opportunity for us to once more look at those first hours of the gameplay and work on the pacing, guidance and fun of getting to know the game’s features and challenges.

We added more chests to the early game regions in Springlands and Revelwood to better reward exploration and also give players more opportunities to try out different gear and level up their weapons with more available runes and loot.

Many roads and enemy camps have been touched up to reduce the chances of getting utterly lost in the open world and instead make players feel more in control of their journey.

The recipes in the crafting progression have been reworked, especially in the early game. The goal was to reduce the grind and get players to the good stuff faster. 

Player suggestions we included because hey that sounded like a good idea

• Shader compilation times after updates or GPU driver installations have been significantly reduced. Okay that one’s a trick we were always gonna improve it.

• A new skill allows building in a free-flying mode. This makes it so much easier to build in hard-to-reach areas.

• The boss in the Albaneve Summits has been reworked with a substantial nerf to its health, and with added opportunities to deal damage with melee weapons. Your twig collections will thank us. Also, the arena has been changed to make it easier for players to stay on solid ground or get back to it after jumping or being pushed over the ledge.

• Scattered loot can now continuously be picked up in a larger radius. Either on demand by holding a button or automatically by sheer magnificence of being the Flameborn (by setting it so in the gameplay setting). Excluded from this is loot in containers, from enemies or special quest items.

• Players can now choose between the classic and the new, more realistic character proportions, either when creating a new character or by changing an existing one at the Barber. Perfect for those of you who weren’t so keen on hobbit roleplay.

• Storage chests can now be upgraded. This can be done in place without having to empty them and pick them up first. Huge win for feng shui enthusiasts.

• Updraft charge duration is now configurable in world settings, so if you preferred instant updraft, you can have your cake and eat it, too. 

• Custom map markers and chests can now be freely named. We know that some of you are VERY excited about this one.

• Fishing progression has been improved significantly; players can now hunt for specific fish by selecting the designated bait for each tier. Also, chances for higher quality fish have been improved.

• And so, so much more..

Changelog

A public safety announcement

• When playing for the first time in version 1.0.0.0 with an existing save game, the skill tree will be reset. Please make sure to spend the skill points again!

World and Quests

• The full game world is now accessible. Yes, all of it. Go touch all the new grass. This includes the new biome, Cinder’s Cradle, filling out the northern regions of the previously inaccessible areas of the map, but also new areas bordering the previous biomes and previously locked dungeons and areas. The area sits between Blackmire and Veilwater Basin in terms of size, and brings 12 new Shroud Roots.

• All biomes but especially the Springlands, Blackmire and the Kindlewastes now have additional playable areas close to the edge of the world with new quests, new points of interest and 6 additional Shroud Roots. The overall density of points of interest is lower compared to areas on the critical path.

• The gates to the Hollow Halls have now opened in the Albaneve Summits and Veilwater Basin. As always, beware - the Hollow Halls are best visited with dependable friends. 

• Most areas that were previously marked as no-build zones have been made fully accessible for player-built bases. This should allow for some interestingly placed player-built outposts. 

• Quests are now sorted into main quests for important progression steps or story elements and side quests for more optional exploration and loot.

• Improvements to the Albaneve Summit’s boss’s (that’s a lot of apostrophes!) lair include a wider walkable area, making it less likely to accidentally fall off the edges or get pushed over. Additionally, grapple hook anchors make it easier now to return to the walkable areas after getting pushed over the edge or gliding around the arena.

• The Shroud covering parts of the boss’s lair has been lowered below the walkable area. There is already enough going on; the visual noise of the Shroud certainly did not help with keeping an eye on things. 

• Added numerous improvements to the shrouded areas all over Embervale. Especially in the Nomad Highlands it is now easier to find the way through the shrouded regions and potentially more importantly, out of the Shroud again. Additionally, 3 new save points have been placed in the Nomad Highlands Shroud.

• Locked chests and doors on higher tiers now need a new set of lockpicks. Archaic lockpicks are starting in the new biome Cinder’s Cradle. Locks keep getting fancier, so your lockpicks had to as well. 

• Wooden chests now have a chance to contain a weapon or armor piece on the level of a silver chest. At the same time, the common tier loot has been removed from silver chest loot lists. 

Enemies

• Added numerous new enemy types to all existing enemy factions. Some are variations of existing enemies; others are completely new. All of them want to kill you.

• All enemies now recover their health over time if players exit the combat area instead of resetting their health instantly. This new behavior will not make a drastic difference for regular enemies since their health bar is relatively small, but it makes a big difference when reattempting a boss after the whole party has been defeated. When re-engaging the boss in a timely fashion, some of its health will still not have fully recovered, giving the party an advantage in the next attempt. 

• Improved the pathfinding for enemies that try to find the way home after chasing the players through unknown territories. They get scared when they get lost.

• Improved the line-of-sight checks for enemies to support better and more consistent decision-making. 

• Fixed several behavior issues for tamed enemies; for example, they no longer investigate noises from players - they just trust that everything is fine. 

• Enemies now actually search for players when they hear something instead of magically knowing where everyone is by looking into the current memory of the game.

• Added a new phase to the Albaneve Summits boss where it stands on the playable area, exhausted. This allows melee-focused players to get in close for some devastating blows before the regular attacks continue. 

• The stun meter for the Albaneve Summits boss has been reworked. Before, the best and fastest method was to parry its projectiles back at it. This is still a powerful option, but using stun arrows or shock damage now works significantly better than before.

• The air push attack of the Albaneve Summits boss pushes players more upwards than previously. This gives players more time to deploy the glider to get back safely. How nice of them!

• The weak point on the back of the Albaneve Summits boss now works as a regular weak point for all weapons; previously, it only worked as a weak point for arrows.

• Fixed an issue with the Albaneve Summits boss that could cause the encounter to reset while players were still present in the area.

• Improved the flight curve of the Albaneve Summits boss projectiles. The projectiles can now also hit players standing very far away. You know who you are…

Gameplay

• The new max level for players is now 50. Accordingly, the max level for equipment is now 55 when fully upgraded. 

• Added 9 new types of spells, available at various tiers.

• Added numerous additional tiers for previously existing spells, so that mages now have a wide selection of options for every part of the progression.

• All spells now have an eternal version, many of which unlock in the current highest progression tier. No more worrying about whether or not you brought enough charges.

• Area-of-effect spells now have a new ground cursor at the target position.

• Improved the balancing of the spells. The goal was to strengthen the unique role of each spell type while at the same time bringing spells in line that were too weak or too strong within the current progression.

• Reworked or improved several spell visual effects to better align to the gameplay vision. 

• Wands now have heavy attacks. 

• Switching targets with wands and bows in hard-lock is now possible much faster after the attack.

• A new free aiming mode for wand gameplay has been added to the combat section in the gameplay settings.

• Wand special abilities don’t get interrupted by enemy attacks while casting anymore. 

• The player's blocking intention and fast reflexes are now rewarded by immediately utilizing the camera blocking direction, rather than the direction the character is facing.. This should make blocking feel more responsive.

• Improved the stats and perks for a large number of weapons.

• Reworked the weapons that can be found specifically in the Hollow Halls. The goal was to make these weapons work particularly well against the Hollow themselves, while also being effective in combat outside the Hollow Halls.

• Rebalanced, fixed and improved several weapon gems. Lowered some stats on Gem of Battle Mania and Gem of Obsession. Buffed the damage of the Gem of Toxic Reaction, leading to a +21% dps on level 10 up to 65% on level 50. 

Fixed a bug that caused climbing speed to be unnaturally fast when tilting the movement stick very slightly on controllers.

Crafting and Survivors

• Players can now place a gem forge station in the player base in the late part of the game. 

• Regular 24-slot storage chests and Magic chests can now be crafted earlier in the crafting progression.

• Storage chests can now be converted to magic chests and upgraded. This can be done without having to clean them out and pick them up as a crafting resource. We know how annoying that was.

• The Barber now offers the service of changing the body type from the classical proportions to the more realistic proportions. Or the other way round, Elio supports you either way!

• The crafting survivors for the different combat classes now also offer upgrade services for eternal spells and eternal arrows. 

• Vanity items can now be crafted with gold coins at Mei-Yin Chen, once unlocked.

• Moved a few recipes to Mei-Yin Chen, such as fireworks and confetti bombs. 

• Mei-Yin Chen now has a preview model when placed. 

• The roaming distance of survivors can now be configured before placing them for the first time. 

• Reduced the minimum roaming distance to 2 meters.

• Reworked the unlock criteria for craftable armor sets. Previously, there were different unlock criteria, such as picking up specific resources, etc. Now, every time the Flame gets upgraded, the armor sets for the following crafting tier get automatically unlocked. This serves two purposes: firstly, players no longer accidentally miss out on important upgrades simply because they didn’t mine the correct material or missed a quest. Secondly, the recipes of the armor sets now better guide the players through the new biome.  

• Reworked the available armor sets for the ranger classes in the Revelwood and Nomad Highlands tiers. Previously, those two tiers didn’t have a craftable set that focused on dagger builds. The dagger sets could only be found as loot. Now both the tier 2 and 3 have one craftable ranged combat set and one craftable dagger set each. The Marksman and the Sharpshooter sets have instead been converted into loot items for the Revelwood and Nomad Highlands loot chests respectively. 

• The dagger sets Assassin, Frostbite Slasher, Blood Feather, and a new set now have a melee attack critical hit chance improvement upgrade perk instead of a sneak attack damage increase. This makes the upgrades generally more versatile and a better fit for these sets. 

Adventure Sharing and Base building

• Added a new feature called “Sparkworks” that can be accessed by crafting a new set of tools and interactive props. Sparkworks allows the connection of interactive elements in the player base and adds behavior rules to the interactions. To help players set up complex logic connections, a new 2D graph editor has been added where all the inputs and outputs can be configured and where the connections and rules are visualized in a convenient way.

• Added a new skill “Airborne Architect” at the center of the skill tree that enables building in a free-flying mode. All of the scaffolding experts are out of a job now.

• When unlocking Flame level 11, the maximum number of Flame Altars in the world is now 16. It’s free real estate!

• Fixed several cases where water would act in inconsistent or incorrect ways.

• Improved the adventure sharing menu. All sorting categories now have a “show more”-button that takes the player to the complete list of adventures but sorted by the selected category. Also a new category for highlighting adventures has been added and several new tags for creators to pick from to describe their adventure. 

• It is now possible to remove your up- or downvote on shared adventures.

• The name and details of a shared adventure can now be viewed while visiting. Likewise, voting is now also possible while still in the shared adventure.

• Fixed an issue that prevented picking up objects in large and complex player bases. 

• Fixed an issue that caused glitches with building shapes when placing them near the Shroud.

• Fixed an issue that caused animals to somehow glitch through fences. Even if farmers might say it’s realistic, it was still annoying.

• Fixed that animals would decide to run instead of walk even when it made no sense because, for example, they were close to an obstacle already.

• Improved several issues with the movement of animals, especially with the big ones like the Yak.

• Added more preventive measures for save data with an impossibly large amount of Flame Altars. We can’t guarantee it will always work.

• Added a previously missing tree from the Revelwood biome to the crafting recipes. 

Player movement improvements

• Added new stop animations for the player character after running and sprinting.

• Added new directional start animations for the player character.

• Added new run and sprint 180°-turn animations for the player character.

• Added Inverse kinematics for the player character and enemies. This allows hands and feet to end up at the correct position in more situations, e.g. both feet touching the ground when standing on uneven terrain.

• Reworked how the player character behaves when walking or jumping up very steep slopes. The goal was to make climbing feel more consistent when a slope is just a bit too steep. We still want to support players looking for a way up, but we also want to make it clear when an area is too steep, so you don't end up in weird gameplay situations that consist of glitchy movement, bunny-hopping, and sliding backwards. 

• Greatly improved the movement smoothness of the player character when ascending or descending stairs with 1 voxel height and 2 voxel width. We know that sounds oddly specific, but it’s a big deal, we swear.

• The player characters now look into the direction of the camera, as well as at interesting objects, enemies, other players, or survivors when nearby. 

• Fixed animations and issues with the timing of effects when using the pickaxe while moving.

• Harvesting bushes, picking up loot or interacting with items while crouching no longer causes the character to stand up.

• Fixed several small glitches or incorrect movements during combat and exploration. 

• The trajectory of the player character has been improved when pulling towards an anchor with the grappling hook. 

• Fixed many issues with hair looking bad with various armor pieces. Staying protected shouldn’t mean you can’t slay.

• Fixed clipping or other issues when combining armor pieces from different sets. Tight boots and loose pants were especially problematic before. 

• Added several new hairstyles. Ask your local barber for details.

• Drinking a health or mana potion now shows the correct potion model in the hand.

User Interface and Texts

• Reworked the various menus in the pre-game.  Among others, we unified the flow for starting a game.  Also, the setup menu for hosting a game has been simplified into easily selectable modes that allow additional configurations if needed.

• Slightly re-organized the main menu to have the links in a sub-menu for a cleaner presentation overall. 

• Reworked and improved several hard lock and soft HUD icons for various weapons. Soft lock icons are no longer displayed for melee weapons. The goal is to give the most useful information for each weapon type. 

• Fixed several cases where the menu layout or UI elements broke when setting the font size to 140%.

• Keybinding conflict detection has been improved. Fixed several cases of possible false positives and the jumps to the conflicts work more reliably now.

• Added visibility settings for all HUD elements to give players the power to customize the optimal level of information versus immersion while playing.

• Storage chests can now be freely named. We named ours Jeff.

• Acquisition hints for resources are now also shown in the details menu of the resources. 

• Added acquisition hints to several resources that didn’t have one previously. 

• Browsing the various lists of the Adventure Sharing menu should now work more as expected with controllers. 

• Fixed several layout issues and improved navigation for the various adventure sharing menus. 

• Admins or hosts can now set the permission role of other players in the social menu at any time. When a player then leaves and rejoins the session, the previously set role is remembered for the next session. When players join a server, admins and hosts can see a message in the chat widget, informing of the joining and what the permission level of the newly joined player is. 

• Custom map markers can now be named freely. Note, custom map markers are only visible to the players themselves, not for other players. 

• Quests now show whether they are personal quests or world quests.

Sound

• Lore notes, letters and other texts found in the world are now narrated in English, German and Chinese. Other languages are planned for a later date. Now you can have lore beamed straight into your brain through your ears. The future is now.

• For German enjoyers, the lore notes are narrated by Dietmar Wunder - the German voice of Daniel Craig.

• A new widget gives players full control over the playback of the narrated journal entries. Tracks can be queued or played immediately, paused during combat, and much more. 

• The important crafting survivors and quest givers now have voice-over in English, German and Chinese.

• Added improved sound reflections, reverb and environment detection to have sounds react more correctly to the shape of the dynamically changing terrain.

• Added a system that limits the amount of identical sounds that can be played at the same time. This helps reduce ugly sounds in areas with many traps, for example. 

• Reduced spammy sounds in large enemy camps connected to the enemy alert states. 

• Fixed an issue where sounds continued to be played while the game was paused in single player. It should now be completely silent when paused. Finally, peace…

• Added several new sounds to UI interactions and buttons.

• Fixed multiple small sound issues during combat.

• Added a new system to dynamically lower the volume of certain sounds. This was required to keep the narrated lore notes audible while continuing with the gameplay. 

General Visual Improvements 

• Thanks to a new rendering method called brick rendering, voxel terrain and buildings now have a much higher level of detail at large distances, drastically improving the look of vistas and far away points of interest. This should be especially noticeable in complex player builds.

• Important props like trees can be seen at much further distances in player bases than before.

• A more granular representation of the world, including props of a medium size and bigger, is now used to calculate the dynamic global illumination, resulting in an even more realistic real-time lighting.

• The various biomes, day and night cycle and weather situations now have specific lighting settings, different air moisture and sky atmosphere settings, which helps convey the “feel” for each region much better.

• Added height fog, depending on biome and day and night cycle, to increase the feeling of depth.

• Added nice-looking Shroud clouds to the world outside the playable area.

• Reworked the colorgrading and tonemapping to create a more natural and harmonic look of the whole game. 

• Slightly reworked the sun brightness levels to help improve the overall image quality. 

• The indirect lighting and colors are now more vibrant in shrouded areas.

• Improved the lighting below large trees and in dense forests. Previously, the areas below the canopies could be darker than one would expect.

• Reworked the visuals of the intro slides. The voice-over is now switched to the lore narrator.

• Added outro slides. 

• Props like trees, wooden bridges, etc. now correctly disable the display of raindrops below. 

• Fixed a flickering in the Shroud when viewed in the far distance “performance” graphical settings. Note, there can still be some shadow flickering in the distance on performance settings. This is being investigated and will be fixed in the future. 

• Increased the range at which decorative elements are shown at building voxels.

Technical Improvements

• Implemented several methods to save video memory without sacrificing graphical quality. 

• Added several methods to improve performance.

• Significantly reduced the VFX shader compilation time at the start of the game after updating the game or the GPU driver. A small amount of compilation time is unavoidable, however. 

• Fixed an issue that led to visual effects and sound effects playing significantly delayed. 

• Fixed several graphical issues that could occur on very large and complex player bases. Shoutout to everyone who submitted their builds to us to check out via support and social media.

• Reworked the point light shadows with the goal to support large player constructions with many lights. Point lighting impact on performance has been drastically reduced.

• Reduced the memory needed for server and client communication.

• Added several measures to reduce the performance impact on CPUs. They’ve been working hard, and they deserve a break.

• Enshrouded now supports HDR if a compatible monitor or TV has been connected. Also, a new calibration screen has been added to configure the HDR settings.

• Switched to a new collision system.

• Fixed an issue that could prevent the game from starting due to a faulty search for connected microphones. Turns out the game was just trying to find someone to talk to.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the soft or hard lock icons to stop working correctly during longer play sessions. 

• Improved the behavior of cloth simulation, as well as other simulations such as hair and dangling elements on armor and enemies, while also improving the impact on performance. 

• Improved the memory consumption and performance for the water simulation. 

• Added additional measures to try and load save data as best as possible even if corrupted data has been detected. 

• Updated the list of graphics settings presets for the automatic GPU detection system. 

Additional Quality of Life Improvements

• Holding the interaction button now collects all scattered loot in the vicinity of the player. This excludes loot in containers and defeated enemies, and quest-related items. A new setting allows players to automatically collect all such loot constantly without a button press.

• The language for text can now be selected in the game settings.

• At the same location, the newly added voice-over language can be selected.

• The Shroud can now be pushed back with flame altars. You can finally show that fog who’s boss. To unlock this feature, the final flame level 11 has to be unlocked. Alternatively, the required flame level can be lowered to any level via the world settings. 

• Reworked the warning messages for server performance. Previously, the warnings could trigger too soon.

Save data

• Enshrouded now uses a new save data format which results in smaller save game files and a simpler data structure in the save data folder. Basically, it’s better in every way.

• When loading version 1.0 for the first time and the game detects a save game created with version 0.8 or earlier, the existing save data will be firstly backed up and secondly automatically migrated to the new format.

• In the character selection menu and the world selection menu, players can now select if they want to use a local save game folder or the Steam cloud folder. This is organized in separate tabs, so make sure to select the correct tab if you don’t see the character or world that you expected to see.

• The game now displays a warning that the save data can’t be overwritten for both the world save and the character save. This could happen if for some reason the save data is set to read-only in Windows. 

• The locally stored save data can now be found in this save data folder in Windows: C:\\Users\\WINDOWSUSER\\Saved Games\\keen games\\Enshrouded\\default

That's it for us for today! Come back tomorrow for the grand finale: our (very cool) Highlights video and the release! One day left!!!