0.5.8 - Gameplay Reliability Fixes

Fixed

• Fixed false fire-hazard detection that could block companion summoning across an entire base.
• Safe summon checks now use the real distance to fire sources instead of large heat/effect colliders.
• Improved companion return to the Dog House or player bed after death.
• Improved safe return placement inside buildings.
• Passive and fleeing creatures such as deer no longer trigger defensive combat simply by targeting the player through AI logic.
• Companion combat now reacts to real attacks instead of passive AI target selection.
• Improved AirShipPlus and other modded transport detection.
• Added support for transport trigger/deck colliders and transport hierarchy names.
• Summoning while already travelling in Follow mode now immediately places the companion into hidden Travel Mode.
• Prevented companions from physically running in place on moving airships after being summoned.

0.5.7 - Portal & Safe Summon Fixes

Fixed

• Added universal companion recovery for modded portals that bypass Player.TeleportTo.
• Companion now detects large instant owner position changes and follows through compatible teleports.
• Preserved the existing direct teleport hook for vanilla-compatible portals.
• Prevented portal fallback logic from interfering with Travel Mode.
• Improved companion summoning inside houses and heavily built bases.
• Fixed indoor roofs and upper floors being mistaken for summon ground.
• Added more nearby candidate positions for safe indoor summoning.
• Reduced overly aggressive fire exclusion while still avoiding fire hazards.
• Improved safe companion rematerialization after portal travel.
• Added detailed safe-position diagnostics to the log when summoning fails.

0.5.6 - Companion Gameplay Fixes

Fixed

• Added Wounded revive support through the normal Use action, including gamepad controls.
• Wounded companions now remain where they fell when the owner dies.
• Improved Wounded position and rotation stability.
• Improved recovery when companions get stuck on ladders, slopes and uneven terrain.
• Fixed CraftingStation objects being incorrectly detected as rafts/transport.
• Improved companion return after portal travel.
• Added safer summon and recovery placement around fires and other fire hazards.
• Fixed Dog House scale.
• Added a solid Dog House collider.
• Improved Dog House interaction.
• Added Dog House link/unlink controls.
• Improved multiplayer companion damage synchronization.
• Increased low-level companion damage.
• Increased XP gain and reduced progression grind.
• Improved walking/running animation speed matching.
• Added occasional companion barking behavior.

0.5.5 - Co-op Gameplay & Performance

Fixed

• Fixed Dog House registration in the Hammer build menu.
• Renamed the Russian Dog House entry to "Будка".
• Improved Dog House icon loading fallback.
• Fixed other players being able to take control of another player's companion with E.
• Preserved companion ownership and stamina bonus correctly in multiplayer.
• Fixed wounded companions sliding along the ground while lying down.
• Reduced unwanted rotation while sitting, lying down or wounded.
• Improved companion damage at low levels.
• Improved experience gain and multiplayer XP reliability.
• Improved portal recovery and transport handling.
• Improved support for modded ships, airships and other transport platforms.
• Prevented accidental dismissal while travelling on detected transport.
• Prevented recovery from placing the companion on a bed surface.
• Reduced repeated network, reflection, AI, HUD and save-system work.
• Disabled expensive public debug Harmony watchers.

Performance

• Reduced repeated per-dog multiplayer lookups.
• Reduced unnecessary PlayerPrefs writes.
• Reduced Wounded, regeneration, coat, HUD and combat polling.
• Reused cached AI/component/reflection lookups where possible.
• Reduced allocations in combat and movement code.

0.5.4 - Multiplayer Performance

Fixed

• Reduced periodic stutters caused by repeated player collision processing.
• Reduced per-dog multiplayer overhead when multiple companions are nearby.
• Optimized Travel Mode transport detection to avoid repeated allocations and hit sorting.
• Removed remaining update work from disabled floating companion labels.

0.5.3 - Multiplayer UI Fix

Fixed

• Removed broken floating text above companion dogs in multiplayer.
• Disabled floating name, level and owner labels to reduce per-dog UI overhead in multiplayer.
• Companion information remains available when hovering over the dog.

Changelog

0.5.0 - Public Beta

Initial public beta release.

Added

• Networked companion dog
• Summon and dismiss with NumPad 9
• Follow and Stay modes
• Four selectable coat colours
• Dog House home system
• Companion renaming
• +20 stamina bonus while following
• Defensive combat behaviour
• XP and level progression
• Progression-based health and damage
• Wounded state with 30-second revive window
• Revive by any nearby player
• 50% health restoration after revive
• Death recovery system
• Recovery after owner death
• Recovery after portals
• Recovery after water, falls and getting stuck
• Travel Mode for ships and modded transport
• Hidden travel state when physical placement is unsafe
• Multiplayer synchronization
• Russian, English and French localization

Notes

• This is a public beta release.
• Multiplayer behaviour is still being tested.
• Compatibility with modded ships and other transport is still being tested.
• Bugs and edge cases may still occur.

0.5.1 - Public Beta

Changed

• Added Discord link for feedback, bug reports and multiplayer testing.