Smoother on every device
- The first time you play, the game measures about 10 seconds of real play. If it runs below 45 FPS it steps down one graphics preset (two below 28), and tells you. It never runs again, and it skips players who chose their own settings or a frame cap.
- High renders at up to 3200×1800, so it stays sharp on 4K screens. Ultra keeps native resolution.
- Frames are about 15% faster at High, and the game uses less graphics memory.
- The ocean isn’t drawn when hills hide all of it.
- Fewer hitches the first time vehicles, animals and kits come into view.
- If your graphics driver resets, the game saves and reloads straight back into the same world.
- Browsers without WebGPU draw the world much more efficiently.
- Game servers use about a third less CPU and wake up faster, leaving more headroom on busy worlds.
New setting: Settings › Keybinds & comfort › Raw mouse input. It’s off by default on Mac, so looking around keeps macOS pointer acceleration, and on everywhere else.
Wildlife and hands
- Deer, boar, wolves and polar bears were rebuilt with new bodies, eyes and coats.
- Eating, drinking, throwing, placing and fishing have proper first-person animations, and other players can see them too.
- Other survivors’ walking and running now match how fast they’re moving, with their feet planted instead of sliding.
- Tools and loose items sit more naturally in your hands.
Snow and desert air
- The arctic always holds a cold blue-white haze, so you can’t see all the way across it. It thickens a little at night and dawn.
- The desert has a lighter, warm dust haze. Storm fog stacks on top of both.
- Footprints and tyre tracks in snow and sand were removed.
- New snow footsteps, plus new grass and rock steps, wood chopping, and jackhammer and chainsaw sounds.
New items
- Barbeque: 100 wood and 40 metal fragments. Cooks six pieces of food every 3 seconds, three times a campfire.
- Flashlight: 30 metal fragments at Workbench 1. Press F to switch it on or off.
- Lantern: 25 metal fragments and 15 low grade fuel. It burns one low grade fuel a minute.
- Supply Signal: found in military, armory and elite crates. Throw it and violet smoke calls in a supply drop.
Also in this update
- Press F7, or choose Report a problem in the pause menu, to send us a private report with a screenshot of what you’re seeing.
- Bedwars has a kill feed in team colours, marked FINAL once a team’s bed is gone.
- Server names show region, type and wipe rhythm, such as “US West Main · Biweekly”, and the server list fits on 720p screens.
- The Harbor has a deep-water berth, and sand no longer pokes through its quay wall.
- Fixed a Store exploit.
Gravewick, Tidelight and the Store
Gravewick is our Halloween collection: eight skins in pumpkin enamel, bone and candle wax that glow at night. They cover the AK, Thompson, facemask, chest plate, hoodie, pants, sheet-metal door and large box. Gravewick will be in the Store from October 24 to November 9 (UTC), sold one by one or as a whole set at 30% off.
- The $1.99 Starter Pack is now the Tidelight kit: a Rock, Stone Hatchet and Stone Pickaxe in glowing sea stone and driftwood, plus 250 Sparks. Once per account.
- Every purchase now plays a short celebration.
- The old Scrapyard crate and its skins, the weekly skins and the free Founder set have been retired from the game. Founder’s Pack, Supporter, Nightshift and First Forged items are unchanged.
