Release Notes for Starsand

ADDITION: Recipe papyrus for basebuilding recipes
ADDITION: Camel “follow mechanic”
ADDITION: Saddle and Sunshade items
ADDITION: while riding a camel, it’s now possible to whistle (T key) to make camels in range follow/unfollow you
ADDITION: The changelog gets now displayed in the intro menu scene
CHANGE: The camel bag must now be placed on the saddle
CHANGE: Metal spear ranged damage increased
CHANGE: It’s now possible to attach a wall over another wall up to three times
CHANGE: UI panel to manage different camel mechanics: ride, feed, rename, follow/unfollow
BUG FIXED: The metal hammer will now display the health of basebuilding pieces
BUG FIXED: Camera effects (blood, poison, etc) overlaying UI panels
BUG FIXED: Water Well recharging time not saving
BUG FIXED: Switching satchel with backpack not updating the slots in the inventory
BUG FIXED: Items can now be picked up when a hotbar slot is free and the inventory full
GOG: Introduced Achievements

Optimization on memory usage.
It’s now possible to use Inventory / Craft / Map menus while riding the camel.
Fall damage is reduced by 90% while using the seeder’s suit.
Water dropping in the cave now restores thirst like other water sources (like the oasis).
The sword now deals more damage against animals and aliens but can’t be used to cut tree or plants.
Turban stats have been increased.
Cooking time of the raw meat has been decreased.
Dead animal bodies will remain longer.
Scolomorphs will now spawn once every 2 days and not every day anymore, and their number will increase at a slower rate.
No settings reset on build change.

Disappearing camel.
Stack from storage to inventory.
Game crashing on opening / closing fence gate.
Mouse inversion while riding the camel.
Tutorial - placing a marker.
Camel disappearing under terrain.
Overlapping texts in message display.
Dead trees in the canyon oasis.
Storage box under the double ramp stairs.
Placeable items disappearing in additional inventory slots / storage box / camel bag (now will drop the crafting materials of the item).
Zombie aliens and dead body falling down under the terrain.
Sandstorm in canyon cave.
Moving animals with fence gate preview.
Refilling water on water bottle or leather canteen.
Items explosion on drop or other situations.
Is not possible anymore to use tools or to consume food in the hot-bar while sleeping.
Wooden spike never-ending damage on player and camel.
Fire arrow hitting an explosive barrel not causing it to explode.
Loot in loot chests respawning each load game.
Wrong camera rotation while riding the camel.

We listened and added more stones. The number of stone deposits that you can mine with a pickaxe remained the same for now.
Spike traps deal a bit more damage now.

A bug with map icons that prevented some players from saving the game.
Game crashing on some rare occasions when pressing numbers over 6 on the keyboard.
Items disappearing from the inventory when loading a saved game.
Infinite sandstorm.
Enemies taking damage by spike traps and wooden spikes even when they are under the ground.

Crafting time for the explosive barrel has been reduced to 40 sec and to 100 sec for the water well.
Improvements to climbing behavior on coconut palms.

Earthquake animation perpetually resetting upon hitting red membrane. The animation ends now after the first hit.
It's now possible to load the game when the fertilizer is inside a farm plot.
Items on the water's edge can now be retrieved.
Wooden spikes do not cause game crashes anymore.
Pyramid floor texture glitch has been fixed.
Character no longer gets stuck in the shelter, and it's now easier to aim at it in order to save.
The whirling around at the start of the game should no longer occur
Motion blur option „off“ works now.
The temperature shouldn't go high more than it's supposed to anymore.
Artifact number does not randomly reset now, and the game doesn't freeze at the white screen.