Hi everyone,

A new stable build 0.28.00 has just been released!

IMPORTANT: There are notes below covering the new save game location and instructions for copying over your previous save data. Please follow these instructions if you wish to preserve your old save game.

This build transitions our latest work on the experimental branch to the stable branch.
If you haven’t been following the progress of our experimental branch, here’s some of the new features included:

New Mining System, New Roofing System, New Clay and Rock minable resources and Pick tool, New Brick building tier, New Furnace and Brick stations and more!

We’ve covered the new features in the patch notes below and you can also read more on the new features in our previous experimental patch notes here:
New Clay resource, Brick building tier, Furnace and Brick station
New Roofing system
New Mining system and Minable resources

We had been receiving emails about players not having user permissions to write world or map data. There were a few possible causes for the error, but the most common seemed to be when the game was installed in the Program Files folder and the user account didn’t have sufficient privileges or security settings. So from this stable build on we’ve changed the location of the game’s save data. You will need to do a simple copy-paste to move your old save folder to the new location. A quick guide can be found here —
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=892983896
This also allows players with multiple users (brothers, sisters, friends, etc) to have their own unique save game data if they have their own user account on the PC.

Also a small note for Mac users: In testing we have noticed that the game needs to be launched from the Steam app or a desktop shortcut created by Steam. If the game is run directly from the .app file, Steam fails to register as initialised and you will see an error message in the game.

Have fun!

Stay Alive!
:: Beam Team
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0.24.01-0.28.00 CHANGE LOG

BUG FIXES

- Fixed Shipwrecks not spawning on Small Islands.
- Fixed item display names not persisting.
- Fixed Smoked Meat reverting when stored in Containers.
- Fixed Water Still resetting timer when re-entering an island causing much longer waits.
- Fixed occupied or invalid building connectors blocking valid connectors behind when placing.

CHANGES

- Added Hammer mechanics to Tutorial.
- Added shadows to Crafting Ghost for better sense of placement depth.
- Replaced Steel building tier with new Clay building tier.
- Replaced Buckets with new Clay Water Bottle.
- Changed Steps placement to use rotating keys.
- Changed crafted objects to immediately pickup or store in backpack when crafted if possible.
- Changed Clay Waterbottle to start off empty.
- Changed world data and save file location to use user’s special documents folder.
- Increased Solar Still collection rate.
- Moved Wedge Foundations and Wedge Floors into Foundations and Floors crafting categories.
- Removed Structural Support.

NEW FEATURES

- New Mining system!
There’s a new tool – the Refined Pick and two new minable resources – Rock and Clay. You can use the Pick to harvest the new resources which can be found around the islands. Rock is generally found on the islands, while Clay can be found under the water around the islands.

- New Pick craftable item!
- New Rock resource!
- New Clay resource!

- New Building Tier – Clay Bricks!
The Steel building tier did not fit the survival theme of Stranded Deep so it has been replaced with a Clay Brick tier. Clay can be found on islands and turned into Bricks with a Furnace and Brick station.

- New Brick station!
- New Clay Bricks building item!
- New Brick Foundation building item!
- New Brick Floor building item!
- New Brick Wall building item!
- New Brick Half Wall building item!
- New Brick Windowed Wall building item!
- New Brick Arch building item!

- New Roof building system!
The new Roof system is the final piece to constructing an authentic looking island hut! There’s two new types of roofing – Wood/Thatched and Clay/Brick. There’s 4 different roof pieces available so you can fill in most designs. Don’t forget that you can rotate building pieces with the Q and E keys when placing. These keys can also be reassigned in the input settings. It will be important to remember to use these keys so you can place roof pieces in the correct orientation with all the different placement possibilities.

- New Wood Roof Middle building piece!
- New Wood Roof Corner building piece!
- New Wood Roof Wedge Corner building piece!
- New Wood Roof Cap building piece!
- New Clay Roof Middle building piece!
- New Clay Roof Corner building piece!
- New Clay Roof Wedge Corner building piece!
- New Clay Roof Cap building piece!

- New Furnace station!
- New Clay Water Bottle item!

- New Great White Shark animal!

0.27.00-0.28.00 CHANGE LOG

BUG FIXES

- Fixed Skinning not allowing you to skin with a full inventory when the reward is Rawhide.
- Fixed Skinnable animals not saving skinned state correctly.
- Fixed possibility of Tutorial crafting objectives not completing if auto-stored in backpack.

DEV NOTES

- Reduced performance overhead when creating and initializing new items.