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V4.03 Major Update : New Beginning

January 10, 2025by SnowBaby

GamePatchNote Digest

My Island Patch Notes — January 10, 2025

Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.

The new version V4.0 has been released, which is our biggest update ever.

Note: The v3 version was still kept as the old version that you can access in the main menu, while the new version V4 is equivalent to a new game. The new version is in the early access stage and needs more time to be improved. There are many new features, and the maps and building modules of v3 will be gradually migrated to the v4 version in future updates.

New content and features:

Brand new movement system This is the most complex character movement system,new function of climbing obstacles, and the character movement is smoother and more natural, which will greatly enhance the game experience and enjoy the joy of free running and jumping
Brand new fishing system, realistic simulation of physical luminous fishing line and float, allowing you to fish at sea at night, you can catch a variety of tropical sea fish, and you can enjoy these seafood
Brand new weapon system, the shooting feel of guns is greatly improved, new shooting and loading animations, more realistic ballistic performance, new sniper rifle and sniper aiming perspectives, New high quality pistol model
Brand new archery system, equipped with arrows and arrowless quivers when shooting, smoother and more natural new archery animations, free and realistic archery experience
New generation lightweight UI design, smoother, simpler and more beautiful
New animal models and animations: 3 different skin types of tigers, 2 new deer, new bears, 3 types of wolf, New Boar
Official servers: We are testing the official servers and will be open soon, which will provide both PVE and PVP modes
New building modules and materials
Redesigned character customization system to fully support multiplayer mode
A new photography mode, which allows you to take photos of characters or scenes from multiple angles and adjust the color parameters of the photos. In order to prevent the camera from moving and spying on other players when taking photos, this function cannot be used on multiplayer servers
A new combat system, with unarmed boxing combat functions, more cold weapons and attack animations, right-click blocking function and floating attack damage value prompt
New throwing weapon and bombs, throwing spears and grenades, Molotov, smoke grenade, throwing parabola preview effects, hanging equipment effects
A new animal AI system and AI generation system, with more reasonable distribution of the same animal population and more intelligent AI behavior
A new animal taming and riding system, which allows you to command a pet separately
Added 3 new colors of women's vests
2 new beautiful backpacks
A new crafting system, adding the function of searching for blueprints
A new camera system, with better first-person and third-person perspectives
A new swimming system, with swimming splashes and sound effects
The splash and sound effects of throwing weapons and bullets on the water
New sky upgrade, 3D clouds, more performance optimization and improvement, rainbow after rain, night starry sky twinkling effect
New ocean system, new sea water material, bright blue tropical ocean, more realistic dynamic wet effect of beach, more realistic waves and buoyancy, performance improvement and optimization
New dynamic camera system, press C to switch between first and third person perspectives freely, and long press C to switch the third person perspective of the left and right shoulders of the camera, press V to switch the rotating camera mode to see the front of the character
New NPC trader
New dynamic opening and closing storage box, A button to take all items away with one click
The death menu menu can choose to respawn at the current location, or choose to respawn on the bed where the respawn point is saved, or respawn at the starting point of the map
Dummy and Archery Target that respond dynamically to attacks
New wall torches, candles
Added mines that can be placed on the ground and triggered to cause huge explosion damage
New repair table can repair weapons and tools
Different color progress bar prompts for different durability states of buildings, The player status progress bar will also change color
New campfire cooking and furnace smelting methods, choose cooking and smelting with the same recipe instead of directly putting it into the campfire or furnace

Fixes and improvements in the V3 version

☑ Fixed the problem of character customization not being copied in the V3 version. Now you can see the customization style of teammates in multiplayer mode.
☑ Set the raindrops in the sky system to wet the screen and set the rainbow after the rain
☑ Fix the wind shaking problem of the leaves of coconut trees and banana trees, improve the coconut tree material, and add the wind swing effect of plants
☑ Desert map footprint effect
☑ Add several grass vegetation
☑ Display the time of the current game day and night cycle in the inventory interface
☑ Show the hidden HUD when pressing Esc or opening the inventory
☑ Fix the recycling shelter into a bed
☑ Reduce the sound of felled trees
☑ Improve the buoyancy simulation of rafts and boats and the ocean buoyancy system