v0.55 24 October 2026

A new Play Together screen, and a truer main menu clearing

• Playing together
• Performance & tools

• Play Together, rebuilt:
  • Choosing a mode: two big cards, Host a party and Join a party, replace the small tabs. Who you're playing as sits at the top right, plus your Steam name when Steam is on.
  • Hosting:
  • The choices are rows of buttons rather than dropdowns: how friends reach you (Steam or Direct, when Steam is on), who can join, party size, friendly fire, and an optional password. The port only shows for direct parties.
  • Beside the choices is your party as it will look in other players' lists, updated as you choose, and a three-step "what happens next" that matches the choices. Then Open my Sanctuary.
  • Joining:
  • One list of open parties: on Steam (friends first) and on your network. Each party is a card with its name, host, players as pips (2 of 4), and chips for In the Sanctuary or On expedition, Password, Friendly fire and Other version.
  • The header counts the parties found, or shows that it's still looking.
  • Have an invite code? has a Paste button. The port box appears only when you type an address.
  • While connecting, the line says what's happening and there's a Cancel button. A punched join shows your own code for the host with Copy.
• The main menu's clearing, rebuilt from the game's own art:
  • The fire: the real campfire (layered flames, sparks, smoke, breathing coals, its crackle) replaces the old cone fire, with a blackened pot on a tripod over it.
  • The camp: a lean-to with a bedroll, a fallen log to sit on, stacked firewood, an axe in a stump, sacks, a barrel and crates.
  • The graveyard: settled, leaning headstones over grassed-over mounds, behind a wrought-iron fence with stone gate posts, an open gate and a stretch fallen in.
  • The woods: autumn oaks among the pines, fallen leaves under them, moss-grown boulders, dead grass in clumps, and the forest's glowing mushrooms casting a faint light.
  • The view: far off in the haze, a ruined watchtower with one window still lit. Ground fog pools low (volumetric on High). The gap in the trees is kept clear, so the moon is never hidden.

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