Apr 2, 2026
View on Steam↗SPRING CLEAN
4/5 Significant
New Armoured Ladder Hatch and Water Wheel items arrive alongside a massive Tech Tree UI overhaul and GPU-driven terrain rendering.
Key Changes
- 1New Armoured Ladder Hatch (Tier 3) provides maximum durability for vertical base access
- 2Water Wheel added as a new renewable hydro-power source for rivers and oceans
- 3Tech Tree overhaul allows multi-unlocking entire paths with a single click
- 4New GPU-driven terrain renderer significantly reduces drawcalls and CPU load
- 5F1 Console completely redesigned with new admin tools and item management features
- 6Shield hitbox nerfed: smaller when idle, larger only when actively held up
- 7Overfishing mechanic introduced to prevent AFK fish farming in bases
- 8Server Mesh Stripping saves 600mb of RAM and 2.7GB of disk space
- 9Plant ripeness window extended from 14 to 24 hours
- 10Visual remakes for the Salvaged Axe and Medical Syringe
All Changes
🏗️Construction & Items(4)
- newArmoured Ladder Hatch: Added Armoured Ladder Hatch, a Tier 3 high-durability upgrade for vertical access available in square and triangle variants.
- newWater Wheel: Added Water Wheel, a renewable energy source that generates power in rivers or oceans and can be manually operated by players.
- newHot Air Balloon: Added Hot Air Balloon Altimeter to help players visualize how altitude affects flight direction.
- changeIO counter: Added IO counter reset value setting.
⚙️Gameplay Systems(8)
- changeTech Tree: Implemented Tech Tree Multi-Unlocking, allowing players to select any node and automatically unlock the entire prerequisite path.
- buffPlants: Increased plant ripeness duration from 14 hours to 24 hours to be less punishing for daily players.
- nerfFishing: Introduced Overfishing mechanic: areas become overfished if too many fish are caught quickly, resulting in only junk catches until the area repopulates.
- buffFishing: Buffed Deep Sea fishing by removing Herrings and Anchovies from the loot pool to concentrate high-value catches.
- buffChainsaw: Chainsaw now always hits the 'X' marker when farming trees.
- nerfWatchtowers: Watchtowers can no longer be spam placed in close proximity to each other.
- nerfShield: Shield hitbox now changes based on state: uses a smaller square hitbox when idle and the full hitbox only when actively held up.
- buffShield: Fixed a bug where shooting a shield applied additional recoil (intended only for melee).
🖥️UI & Quality of Life(5)
- changeF1 Console: Completely redesigned F1 Console with command lists, item favoriting, recent items, and admin teleport/mute buttons.
- newLight Toggle: Added Light Toggle Radial menu (hold bind) to allow individual toggling of multiple light sources like NVGs and flashlights.
- newChat: Added custom color pickers for chat tags including Discord DMs, team chat, and cards chat.
- newButtons: Implemented colored buttons with nested radial menu support.
- changeSleeping Bag: Added visual indicators to distinguish between different sleeping bags in the deep sea on the death screen.
🚀Performance & Technical(5)
- changeTerrain: Introduced new GPU-driven terrain renderer, reducing drawcalls by ~1000 and improving CPU main thread performance by ~0.65ms.
- changeServer Performance: Implemented Server Mesh Stripping, saving approximately 600mb of RAM and 2.7GB of disk space on dedicated servers.
- changeNetworking: Updated Network Groups to use circular logic and distance-based entity networking for better optimization.
- changeServer Performance: Enabled UsePlayerUpdateJobs 2 by default for all servers to improve player update loop performance.
- newServer Performance: Added experimental UsePlayerUpdateJobs 3 using UniTask to eliminate allocations and further parallelize networking.
🎨Visuals & Cosmetics(3)
- changeSalvaged Axe: Complete visual remake of the Salvaged Axe with new high-res model, textures, and animations.
- changeMedical Syringe: Complete visual remake of the Medical Syringe with new high-res model, textures, and animations.
- newSalvaged Axe: Salvaged Axe is now skinnable in the Steam Workshop.
🐰Events & Store(2)
- newEaster Event: Easter 2026 event active until April 16th, featuring egg hunts and collectible egg upgrades.
- newStore Items: Added limited-time Bunny Costume, Excavator Rustigé Egg, and Easter Wallpapers to the Steam item store.
🐛Bug Fixes(1)
- fixJunkpiles: Fixed junkpiles spawning on top of player sleeping bags.
Summary
The Spring Clean update introduces high-tier base defense with the Armoured Ladder Hatch and renewable hydro-power via the Water Wheel. Players can now navigate the Tech Tree much faster with a new multi-unlocking system, while the F1 console has been completely redesigned for better administration and item management. Significant technical improvements include a new GPU-driven terrain renderer and server-side mesh stripping to boost performance.