Sons of the Forest 06 Patch Notes – Brings new features, balances and fixes

In a chilling open world survival horror simulator, Sons of the Forest has players navigate an island infested with cannibals in search of a missing billionaire. With Patch 06, the developers have integrated a large number of new features and improvements, aiming to improve the gameplay while squashing several bugs.

One notable feature of this update is the addition of pick-ups, allowing players to create stone structures such as fireplaces, walls, beams, and columns. The update also introduces a “Hard Survival” difficulty mode, custom figurines, and an advanced wooden sled capable of holding logs, boulders, stones, sticks, and bones.

In terms of improvements, a variety of changes have been made, ranging from practical improvements to sensory ones. Players can now use the right mouse button to empty the contents of a cooking pot or flask, and the cooking pot will be set on fire immediately if the player interacts with the fire while holding the pot. If a fire is extinguished while a pot is being cooked on it, the contents of the pot are reset to the water, though if the pot is cooked when the fire is destroyed, the recipe is kept. Other cooking improvements include an additional UI for cooking rewards and recipes, simplified triggering of equip/unequip guns, and fish caught in traps will not rot.

To add realism and improve gameplay, several audio and visual improvements have been made, including improving the audio and visuals for lava, adding the sound of thunder to lightning strikes, and introducing a static water drip effect in caves. A new AI feature now has cannibals that will occasionally drag infected companions away from the player.

The update also brings a fair share of balancing tweaks. For example, sleeping outdoors will now result in less rest than sleeping indoors, and how much rest a player gets now is affected by their current comfort rating, which can be affected by certain soups and clothing. In Hard Survival mode, players will find fewer food spawns in chests, less spawning of fish and animals, and slower health and stamina regeneration when cold.

To address several issues, this patch also comes with a list of bug fixes such as fixing issues with the player not receiving any effects from drinking the last bit of liquid from the bowl or flask, and fixing a bug where the lighter is equipped with a tether gun. Seemed weird, and corrected an issue where players got stuck when quickly closing the grab bag after opening it to things like storage, fire, and VA, among others.

In terms of sound improvements, several new sounds have been added, including the sound of the pot lid slamming when boiling, the sound of the cooking pot and flask emptying, and improved sound for the Demon Boss sequence.

If you want to see the full list of changes from the patch, here’s the list from the official function:

Features

• Added hard survival difficulty mode
• Stone pickups have been added to the world
• Buildable stone fireplace, stone walls, stone beams and stone columns
• custom statues
• Advanced wooden sleds can now hold logs, rocks, stones, sticks, and bones

improvements

• Countdown hours added to dining and dining area
• Torn ends have been added to a bathroom bursting with alcove luxury
• The cooking pot and flask can now be emptied using the right mouse button
• The cooking pot will now be set on fire immediately if the player is holding the pot while interacting with the fire
• If a fire broke out while the pot was cooking, the contents of the pots would be returned to the water. The recipe is preserved if the pot is cooked when the fire is destroyed
• Some water movement has been added to the pot when not boiling
• Visual and audio improvements to the effects of continuous dripping water in caves
• Improvements and fixes to Lava audio and visuals
• Adding thunder sounds to lightning strikes in the space city view of the gold chamber scene
• The rain catcher will no longer show the refill icon until there is at least enough water for one drink
• The pot can now be added back to the fire even if it has a completed recipe
• The Hot Key UI will no longer appear in the Quick Pick and Grab Bag menus and will only be visible when you are in the warehouse
• Loading tips have been added to assess comfort and sleeping indoors versus sleeping outdoors
• Added load hint for cooking rewards
• Fish traps now run in game time instead of real time to work better with pause and sleep
• Fish caught in traps will no longer rot
• Added UI for existing cooking rewards
• Improved user interface for cooking recipes
• Added a new equip/unequip animation for the gun that’s simpler and matches idle mode, so blending looks smoother and less clunky
• Sometimes cannibals will drag their dying friends away from the player
• General improvements to reduce AI update cost
• Kelvin can now pick up stones
• Kelvin can now fill the log with sleds with sticks, rocks, and stones
• Reduce some of the oversaturated animal breeding grounds and spread them further
• Fixed dead bodies in the beach cave and they float in multiplayer games when the host player is not in the cave
• The dolls cause players to fear cannibals based on the number of body parts
• Multiple fish will visually be stacked on the spear instead of all overlapping
• The AI ​​is no longer obscured by defensive stick spikes, but still takes damage

balance

• Sleeping outdoors is now less comfortable than sleeping indoors
• The amount of rest a player gets is now adjusted by their current comfort rating (some soups and clothes can affect their comfort rating)
• Decreased chance of medicines in chests
• Large demons can now appear above ground after the end of the game
• The Lumberjack Smoothie recipe has been reworked so it’s easier to make in Quiet Games
• Added survival difficulty to starting difficulty settings
• Cooking times changed from 8 hours to 4 hours in game time.
• Difficult survival Reducing food production in crates. The stocking chest cannot be respawned upon loading in this game mode. Reduce the caviar of fish and animals. The target’s health and stamina recovery speeds decrease while cold. Increased punishment for raw/spoiled meat

repairs

• Added some missing translations for cooking
• Fixed the player not getting any effects from drinking the last bit of liquid from the bowl or flask
• GPS locators placed on standing sticks now show and retain the selected symbol after saving and loading and improve positioning of the 3D model on the stick
• Fixed the ability to interact with the cooking pot when refilling a pot from the pot
• Fix for the grab bag to open instead of the player eating from the pot if the player was looking at the pot the whole time they were cooking
• Fixed utility page button color
• Changed stick quantities required in the book from 48 to 60 for the advanced log sled
• Fix skinning on gold shield pickup
• Fix for some sizes of lakes flowing through the terrain
• Fixed protein shake recipe spelling
• Fixed lens flare blockage does not work if blood or cryotherapy is active
• Fixed player getting stuck closing grab bag quickly after opening it to things like storage, fire, and VA
• Resolves an issue where perishable devices are damaged on shelves when a multiplayer agent removes them and fake drops them
• Fixes a player entering an unrecoverable state if they eat something in the inventory immediately after loading a game save
• Fixed an issue where screen area mirroring was not always properly disabled
• Various memory improvements
• Fixed issues with doors and portals going into an asynchronous state for multiplayer clients in some cases
• Fixed logs no longer appear outside after loading a save game into a basement or cave
• A female cannibal’s broken neck and her head flipped over in injury were repaired with a Molotov cocktail interaction
• Fixed a bug where equipping the lighter with the rope gun would look weird
• Fixed some appearances on the crossbow animation
• Fixed Kelvin’s inability to pick up and drop arrows
• Fix for Muddy Cannibals staying near trees where the player only stays near trees, sometimes causing it to crash too often
• Fixed an issue where audio could get stuck on Knight V
• Constant sound when cutting tree with chainsaw
• Repair of navigational cuts when laying walls in ground that slopes upwards
• Players’ Carry Bag now closes when interacting with an extinguished fire
• After loading a save game, when drinking from a pot on fire, the player will now get the correct recipe stat instead of water

My voice

• Added pot lid sound when boiling
• Adjust some high extremities to ambient events and mutant steps
• The maximum splash made the distance much shorter and freed up the volume curve
• a new voice for the Demon Boss sequence; More synchronized effects and sounds of grappling, jumping and singing demon boss
• It is better to fill the bowl with the sound of water
• Added a hug sound in the helicopter departure sequence
• Making Knight V on mud and water does not play splashing water when stopped
• Added sounds of emptying cooking pot and flask
• Change the sound of the golden vista lightning room
• Fixed the guitar sound to stop playing when it was interrupted by a crash or knock