Sons of the Forest Update 03: Full Patch Notes Listed

The Sons of the Forest developer (Endnight Games) is truly inspired to make Sons of the Forest a rightful successor to the well-received The Forest title from 2014. This bi-weekly update dubbed “Update 03” is bringing a lot of cool stuff to all Sons of the Forest fans. Prima Games, traditionally, is here with what you need to know.

Sons of the Forest Update 03 – What’s New? Complete Patch Notes and Details

If you want to read about the previous Patch Notes (Update 02 and Update 01), you may do so by clicking the links below:

• Sons of the Forest Update 02: Full Patch Notes Listed
• Sons of the Forest Update 01: Full Patch Notes Listed

And now, onto the main course.

Sons of the Forest Patch 3 – Full Update 3 Notes Listed

Hey Everyone,

This patch adds a new rideable EUC the Knight V (pronounced knight five), a pair of night vision goggles, a new spring trap that will launch enemies, and brings a first pass of solar power and light bulbs to the building system, along with a bunch more fixes and other improvements.

As always, please continue to post your bug reports and feedback in the Discussions area of the Community Hub.

Features

• Rideable E.U.C. ‘Knight V’ (How to Get the EUC Knight V in Sons of the Forest)
• Nightvision goggles (How to Get the Night Vision Goggles in Sons of the Forest)
• Solar panels, light bulbs, and wires were added to the construction system (How to Get Solar Panels in Sons of the Forest)
• Ramps/Stairs can now be built between a beam and a wall
• Buildable spring trap (How to Make a Spring Trap in Sons of the Forest)
• Working armor rack (replaces mannequin)
• Added button/option to delete saves (also a limited amount of save slots to 30 to fix issues with Steam cloud sync)

Improvements

• Dead babies now have buoyancy in the water
• Mr. and Mrs. Puffton’s clothes now burn up when they are burned
• Added security camera model to bunker luxury entrance
• Cannibal lookout towers and large huts are now breakable
• Adjusted navigation areas by lakes to fix issues with stuck animals/characters around edges
• Can now pick up and throw puffy dead bodies
• Dismembering dead characters with melee is now easier
• Adjusted creepy spawning logic in caves, should no longer visibly spawn and should not lead to over-the-top amounts of enemies in caves over time
• Improved some enemy base attack logic
• Enemy damage game setting is now properly replicated to clients in multiplayer
• Kelvin’s “return to shelter” command will also return to hunting shelters and beds
• Kelvin can now pick up all types of arrows, visibly carry them, and drop the proper type of arrow
• Fly Swatter and Bone Maker traps will no longer trigger on small animals
• Improved morgue lighting in bunker residential and added some dead cultists there
• Added flower wreaths to some dead cultists
• Added world position fixer to block players going outside the bounds of the world on X and Z
• Added quarter resolution mipmap limit option and set book pages to use it, to prevent them from becoming unreadable at low texture settings
• Set rock, stick, and a small rock to disable colliders when not dynamic
• Fixed player clothing blend shapes not always properly applied visually to other players in multiplayer
• Tarp and turtle shell will now show their item count in the inventory
• Renamed mannequin to armor rack
• Changed the amount of duct tape required to build the armor rack to 1
• Added shimmy area after the boss fight in hell cave
• Made it possible to leave hell cave if reentering it after completing the game
• The rope climb trigger for caves is now accessible from a wider angle
• Creepies will now be hidden if they manage to wander into any cutscenes
• Virginia will now stash guns when carrying a gift and drop gifts when entering combat

Balance

• Cannibal ability to dodge heavy attacks increased
• Increased John2 damage to structures
• Enemies now flee further when scared

Fixes

• Fixed issue with nomad cannibal families spawning more than maximum allowed amount
• Fixed more cases of enemies and large animals able to spawn in player bases
• Fixed missing translation on find the Puffton tutorial messages
• Fixed slight delay when hovering over the exit confirm button
• Fixed some more cases of being able to glitch out of the world using a stick
• Fixed animation pop in puffy male walk aggressive loop
• Fixed some areas players could get stuck in hell cave
• Dropped backpack should now properly spawn if the player saves and reloads before picking it up
• Grab bag should no longer get the player stuck in a bad state if it is opened and closed quickly
• Player should no longer get into a broken state if they begin swimming while performing the refill flask action
• Added a safety measure that if the player somehow gets into a state where they are missing a vital item such as their lighter, tracker, combat knife, guide book or grab bag, they will be readded when a save game is loaded
• When the player’s dropped backpack is picked up, it double checks to ensure that the player now has the backpack item
• Player should no longer be able to lose their backpack from using their Quick select in some rare use cases
• Fish on drying racks will no longer despawn when their max pickup count is reached
• Items on the camp fire will no longer auto despawn
• Fixed heavy actor sometimes popping to standing when hit again during hit head reaction
• Fixed Kelvin not stopping trying to fill holder that player put final item in
• Fixed player getting into stuck state if machete ground attack was interrupted
• Fixed stun baton FX sometimes stuck on when interrupted
• Fixed issue with there sometimes being more fish than maximum allowed amount
• Improved logic to better prevent cases of seeing enemies pop in
• Fixed falling trees not hitting cannibals
• Fixed clients sometimes seeing extra GPS locators for Virginia
• Fixed multiplayer client’s taking gun with multiple mods from Virginia losing a mod
• Fixed visual issues decapitating heavy faceless cannibal and female puffy

Sound

• Applied logarithmic scale to volume sliders
• Add an audio event for animations where cannibals hits the club against the ground

That’s it for these patch notes! We hope you’ll enjoy the new content and the updates.