Ashes & Ancestors Patch Notes

Here is a list of patch notes for the Ashes & Ancestors update!

Content

New Chapter: Dziady

New Points of Interest

• The Carver

• Lost souls

  • The Drowned Witch

  • The Murderer

  • The Deceased

  • The Feud

  • Basic Lost Soul

• Dziady

Other new Points of Interest

• Lutki ritual place

• Ghost Release

• Cursed Spirit

• Bound to the Bog

New Biome: The Spruce Forest

New Crafting Stations

• Spell Binding Table

  • Craft charms and protection items

• Furniture Workbench

  • Sell Building Blocks and craft Blueprints

70+ new Building Blocks

New unlockable Character Customization options (new outfits)

Other

• Added pages in journal for trinkets and wearables/ clothing

• Improved Journal Usability

• New travel screen mechanic

• New character controller for more precise jumping

• Added content warnings (You can turn them off under Settings > Controls > Content Warnings)

• New music

• Updated rendering and lighting engine

• Implemented new Graphics Settings

• Implemented toggleable fog blur

• Due to technical limitations we had to remove the back to main menu button from the pause menu. We are sorry about this.

• Steam Deck playable badge

Performance

• Major Performance improvements

  • Decreased load on CPU

• Implemented FSR3.1 upscaling algorithm

  • This can be toggled and adjusted in the graphics settings

• Steam Deck - adjusted recommended settings

Fixes

• Unity update to fix Unity security issues

• Fixed grass not being under the terrain

• Fixed floating terrain and floating structures

• Clothing don’t clip into NPC’s body model anymore

• Reka can no longer glide on fences

• NPCs are no longer getting stuck in the ground or walls

• NPCs can no longer walk through fences or trees

• UI for interaction and speaking do no longer overlap

• Goatling walking through fences

• ESC button now goes back in main menu

• Button remapping is now displayed correctly in building menu

• Camera is now following Reka correctly when standing up or sitting down in the walking house

• Chests in the tutorial that didn’t have loot now have

• Reka is able slide upwards on a vertical surface

• Text is now displayed correctly when clicking the question mark button displayed while interacting with the food shelf, scales, and fireplace

• Chicken hut footsteps don’t play any longer while hut is idle

• Crows in the tutorial don’t freeze in the air and don’t disappear anymore after saving and loading the game

• Journal bookmarks are easier to read while highlighted

• Trapped hare can’t spawn under water any more

• Save/ Load during ‘trial of the forest spirit’ while Leshy appears does not get Leshy stuck in place anymore

• Players can’t get permanently stuck during ‘trial of the forest spirit’ quest (pop up appears to tell player can teleport home/ leave map to start quest anew if stuck)

• Fixed that ‘trial of the forest spirit’ does not break upon regenerating the map and throwing enchanted larch cones early in the quest

• Enough hunter lookouts will now appear to complete the sidequest during ‘trial of the forest spirit’

• Fixed jumping animation during frequent jumping on uneven ground

• Player can’t get stuck by clipping character head into a ceiling anymore

• Fixed animation of woodcutting NPCs after talking to them

• Fixed interaction with skeleton chair while jumping that caused the sit down animation to loop 

• Controller button icons are now displayed correctly

• Fixed save games having the same names after saving

• Teleporting home does not cause Reka to fall from a height anymore

• Beekeeper is no longer sitting in the air

• Player can no longer sit in chairs occupied by NPCs

• Points of interest are no longer spawning below the map

• Player can no longer get both the old watering can and Siva’s Boon after regenerating the map

• Picking up an animal while using the tonic of connection no longer results in being unable to drop the animal

• Only one siva shrine can spawn on the siva shrine map

• Fixed UI to display correct use item wheel prompt

• Fixed environment to no longer change upon reloading and no longer spawning in villages or POIs

• Fixed illumination BBs to be interactable

• Player can’t teleport anymore during final tutorial cutscene

• Fixed rapid light/color flashes in Tutorial to appear sometimes (seizure risk)

• Fixed POIs spawning inside one another or other structures on the map

• Fixed the crows to work as intended when picking up an animal

• Fixed "Work on the Cabbage Farm" to not spawn cabbages

• Fixed ‘Toggle Sprint/Aim/Collect’ to be turned on despite them not being shown as on in the settings

• Fixed that deleting grain from inventory in tutorial no longer hard locks you

• Fixed "The Smiling Hive" quest to disappear from journal after completion

• Fixed so that collecting with crows is no longer delayed

• Chicken hut can’t get stuck on environment so that it cannot move anymore

• Fixed so that UI for destroying objects does not appear before equipping crows

• Using arrow keys in a menu now let you scroll through it

• Fixed that the render distance slider has no effect

• Fixed use items to no longer switch places in the UI 

• Fixed that Reka no longer stands at an angle after getting out of the skeleton chair early

• Fixed map regeneration so that Reka can’t be knocked out of the chicken hut chair anymore

• Fixed that if you open the use item wheel while walking or having auto walk enabled, the player is unable to select an option

• Fixed the item counter UI so that after collecting something with crows it now disappears again

• And many more bugs