Forever Skies Exits Early Access With Content-Filled Update

There are also plans for more content for Forever Skies, with a major update slated for Summer that will bring more build options.

Developer Far From Home has announced that its survival game, Forever Skies, is now out of Early Access. The game, just got its 1.0 update, which brought with it a host of new content along with getting the game out of its Early Access period. Along with its official PC launch, Forever Skies is now also available on PS5. Check out the launch trailer below.

Among the content that got added to Forever Skies thanks to its 1.0 update are new biomies, a host of new locations, and several new points of interest to explore. The new biomes are dubbed Silent City and Overgrown Ruins. Each biome will have its own unique vibe, and will have different things that players can scavenge for. Check out the full patch notes of the update below.

Back when it had announced the 1.0 update release date for Forever Skies, Far From Home had also revealed a loose roadmap of future content for the game. Summer 2025, for instance, will be getting the Airship Expansion update. There is also a major content update planned for Fall 2025, and December will see a seasonal event.

Forever Skies 1.0 Patch Notes:

New content:

World

The world has been split into 3 different Biomes, with unique visuals
– Silent City
– Overgrown Ruins
– New Nature
Different gates surround different biomes
– The Wall
– Charged Blockade
New locations
– Cosmodrome
– Workshop
– AI-Tree Surface Lift
– AI-Tree Roots
New small locations / POIs
– Loot Containers
– Luciferin POIs
– Three unique Colossal Life Form POIs
Murals
– 20+ unique world murals

Story / Progression

The story finale has been added with more than one possible ending
New Research: Computers with blueprints for Airship parts
Discoveries tab in the Studies menu showing all the collectibles (replacing Scanner tab)
Lore tablets in the Ark Capsule Drop random event

Tools & Devices

Cutting Tool
Extractor module: Organic
Mural Frame
New Balloons
– Bulky
– Flat
– Tech
Three Colossal Life Form Eggs for airship decoration

Resources

Luciferin
Machine Scrap
Technology Token
Basic Research Part
Advanced Research Part
Unique Research Part

Settings & UI

Ingredients Auto Crafting added – you can now craft items in printers for which you don’t have all the necessary components, but you have resources to craft them.
Scalable UI (up to 120%)
HUD elements highlights (Select Item, Flashlight, Helm’s Lock Speed) for better visibility of useful key shortcuts
HUD discoveries count while exploring locations
All action bar slots are possible to bind
A UI widget that shows when the game is being saved
Difficulty settings description added to the main menu when starting a game
Building mode description added to the main menu when starting a game
Database button to mark all entries as read
Option to leave the game to the desktop from the Pause Menu
Gamepad input settings to Settings
DLSS Frame Generator

Changed:

World / Locations

The Lower Greenhouse platform changed into a small early standalone location
Locations and their surroundings changed their height/altitude to adjust them to the relevant biomes
Dust color presets have been assigned to each biome to make them look more visually distinct from one another
Rains less often (every 15 minutes, more or less)
Clients’ weather, especially rain, should now be better synchronised with the host’s session (small issues may still appear, though)
Locations general level art and level design pass
Sewer lid under Sleeping Lilies moved to its correct position on Underdust: Suburbs
Moth Swarms spawn time reduced
World generation minor changes to prevent spawning locations on other locations
Collisions on some locations adjusted

Story / Progression

First Immunity drop moved from Greenhouse Tower to Underdust: Tunnels
Second Immunity drop moved from Underdust: Tunnels to Overgrown Lift
Researching Encrypted Data no longer needs Evolved Flora Hologram as its crafting component
Food and Water tutorial quests made as optional
Item economy balance to progress the main quest path has changed
Extracting Biomass grants a blueprint for Biomass Fuel
Organic Printer removed from the Blueprints menu

Tools / Devices

All special rewards from the Kickstarter campaign, the Holiday event and the WDC charity DLC have been moved from Device Fabricator into Furniture Fabricator
Airship decoration items moved from Device Fabricator into Furniture Fabricator
Boosters research recipes moved from Device Fabricator to Suit Printer tab
Crossbow research recipe moved from Device Fabricator to Suit Printer tab
Medium Backpack research moved from Device Fabricator to Upgrade Fabricator
Bolt’s research moved from Device Fabricator to Suit Printer
Radar visual changed to highlight surrounding biomes better
– Biomes representation on the outer ring
– The biome you’re currently exploring is represented by the background colour
– Murals icons added
– Container icons added
– World events icons added
Filtering Deck Extractor now allows you to select Biomass for extraction
Basic Turbine and Advanced Turbine now give not only an altitude bonus but also a maximum weight bonus (+50 / +100 respectively)
Altitude bonus for Advanced Turbine is now +30 (instead of +20)
Airship ascends/descends faster now – it’s permanent, not related to Turbines
Repair Thrower and Airship Builder now has a longer-lasting battery
Both Automatic Extractors need Crystal Batteries
Small Backpack moved from New Nature Territory to Greenhouse Tower
Medium Backpack moved from Underdust: Suburbs to New Nature Territory
Plant Oil and Organic Fertilizer are the default Distiller recipes now
Low stamina animation with Knife plays its animation faster
Wrecked versions of Repair Thrower and Paint Tool added so they match all the other Wrecked tools research process
Crossbow bolts tweaked for a better lifespan, especially on long distances, e.g. for destroying the 3rd Biome gates
Automatic Deck Extractor size reduced
Automatic Deck Extractor crafting recipe changed (Fiberglass added)
Metal Collector cannot be moved when there are some Metals gathered already
Better detection range of Garden Pots placed under Sprinklers, less probability of those not being watered down with Sprinklers
Sprinklers watering time reduced
Sprinklers work when Garden Pots are out of water only
Garden Pots collisions reduced so they can be placed closer together
Paint Tool now contains 4 basic paints after acquiring this tool

Airship

The Ladder Room module now has a proper ladder matching climbing animation
Landing the airship at high speed will no longer cause damage

Resources / Balance

Changes to flying debris:
– Silicon is found in the Silent City biome
– Biomass is found in the Overgrown Ruins biome
– Glass is found in the New Nature biome
Repair Patch stacks improved from 5 to 10
Biomass stacks changed from 50 to 100
Solid State Battery and Upgrade Fabricator crafting cost reduced
Paint Tool moved from Furniture Fabricator to Suit Printer
Energy Crystals are now craftable
Fiberglass is now craftable
All Keycards no longer need Access Modules as crafting ingredients
Costs for crafting Polymer changed from 3 to 5 Plant Oil stacks
Picking up a Firecracker plant now rewards with its fruits (with a random chance on getting its seed)
Artifacts can’t be recycled anymore – they can only be sold in Artifacts Printers on the Dust Territories only
Plants from the Overgrown Ruins biome need Organic Fertilizer for their growth process aboard your airship
Plants that are pickable in Underdust locations only need Dust Fertilizer for their growth process aboard
Radio Towers artifacts pool raised (from initial 2 to 6), so players can find a bigger variety of items
Glowweed Seeds added as a loot on Infected Gardens
Glowweed Seeds added and Petit Bruiseflower removed from Overgrown Lift
Some plant spoiling timers were prolonged
Rebalancing research and craft recipes
Stacks Balance
– Energy Crystal: 10->50
– Polymer: 20->50
– Epoxy: 20->50
– Transformer: 10->25
– Machine Parts: 25->50
– Synthetic Compound: 25->50
– Luciferin: 20->50
– Solid State Battery: 10->25
– Upgraded Battery: 10->25
– Copper Element: 25->50
– Virus samples 1->10
Energy Crystals can now be found on both Wild Habitat and New Nature Territory
Energy Crystals can now be found in the Colossal Life Form cave in the New Nature biome
Stamina Booster is now a reward from extracting Photophobia Virus Sample (previously assigned to Pyrexia)
Biomass Fuel crafting recipe changed (Clean Water >> Dirty Water)
Lobster Pepper plants added to Greenhouse towers again
All Plants should have their boiled versions (instead of an Overcooked Meal)
Synchronize the growing times with the water quantity in the soil

Settings / UI

Blueprint menu adjusted to uniform UI look
Database entries stripped of any irrelevant data (like edible and nutrients sections)
Suit Printer tab moved to the leftmost space in the Research Station
Cooldowns to many repeatable VOs and message log lines
Distiller message log informs about finishing the whole process instead of every stack of distilled liquid
Hold time on an Insect Catcher device reduced
Hold time on picking up placeable objects has been reduced
Removed greyed out layer from locked slots, color change and paddle shake added instead
Slight change in a selected inventory slot for better visibility
Removed color coding from object health indicator, outline added instead
Minor changes in UI for localization purposes
Inventory gamepad bindings – “Move” is on Facebutton Bottom (X/A) and “Use” is on Facebutton Left (Square/X)
Posters were rescaled
Database icons and backgrounds adjusted
Simplified controller’s Adaptive Triggers conditions for some tools

Other

Clients can’t join the session while the host is operating lift to or from Underdust locations to prevent further session problems
Elevator ride “interactive loading screen” changed not to generate so many frame drops
Scrapwing Hatchery no longer spawns when all players are sleeping at the same time
Insect Catcher sound tweaked
Player breathing sounds tweaked
Player coughing sounds for Dust tweaked (oxygen threshold for coughing lowered)
Ladder climbing sounds tweaked
The virus, which the player is infected with, is named Grey Plague and updated in the Database entries
Only the first intake of the Cure plays its animation
Viewing Corner dimensions adjusted
Stair Rooms dimensions adjusted
Inverted Cockpit model adjusted
General texts polish
Many optimization works to boost the performance of the game
– Further optimization of airship flight physics
– Elevator rides should be less choppy
– The intro movie should play more smoothly
– Hosting a co-op game should now be less taxing on the host’s CPU
– Other CPU-side optimization
– Draw call reductions
– Lighting optimization
– Reduction of memory consumption of models and textures

Fixes:

Fixed a bug where Thunderstorms were looping indefinitely, which resulted in lowering performance
Corner View room tops do not overlap with floors anymore, and its glass material has been corrected to standard airship modules’ glass
Hanging Cabinet pivot lined with the center of the cabinet
Fixed collisions on Infected Garden, blocking entry to one of the location branches
Large Bloom Two-Deck Cockpit icon changed to a proper one
Fixed a bug where the player could pick up Thorn Bee Hive, resulting in bees staying in the world forever
Fixed a bug where players could rescue two Friendly Insect pets
Fixed a bug where players couldn’t join a co-op session if their Steam names included some special characters
Fixed a bug where clients in co-op sessions didn’t see plants growing
Fixed a bug where non-picked-up items in buildings containing Wrecked Objects needed for main quest progression (e.g. Wrecked Basic Turbine) appeared again floating mid-air on the next visited locations
Fixed a rare bug where the Sleeping screen (when a player got exhausted) didn’t fill the whole screen
Fixed a bug where the Friendly Insect animation breaks when more than one player tries to pet it at the same time
Fixed a bug where eating Green Colander raw treated the Pyrexia disease
Fixed a bug where players caught anything other than Dust Moths during the tutorial
Fixed a bug where clients in a co-op session didn’t see the dust on the Underdust: Suburbs
Airship shouldn’t get stuck in a location’s geometry
Fixed a bug where Charged Blockade sound wasn’t playing properly
Fixed a bug where both biome gates weren’t playing sounds
Underdust: Suburbs level design tweaked so Mantis enemies do not get stuck in the floor
Fixed a bug where clients in a co-op session saw incorrect Docking Plank movement
Fixed a bug where the Blueprints screen showed placeholder items on the first opening
Fixed some bugs with levitating items
Fixed bugs with the wrong interactive material setup for some objects
Fixed a rare bug where the healing sound from a Medical Station didn’t end after healing was completed
Fixed a bug where trigger for running a lift was present on the whole lift
Fixed a bug where new Room frames were weirdly rotated in ghost mode
Fixed a bug where player was stuttering while snapped to Helm during flight
Fixed a bug where Filtering Bottle was showing durability 0/0 after crafting
Fixed a bug where player could block themselves when building Balloon Core
Fixed a bug when player is using a gamepad and is in the splitting menu, pressing anything on the mouse causes them to lose focus
Fixed a bug with Dust shader visible on entering both combat locations
Fixed a bug where Copper Elements on the Lower Wind Farm could be picked up again after saving and loading a game
Fixed a bug where Alternator switch doors weren’t working on Underdust: Suburbs
Fixed a bug with the wrong message being played and shown in the log when Engines were being placed
Fixed a bug where items dropped on the airship were detached from it after save / load
Fixed a bug where Moth Swarms were blocking players from interacting with world objects (no triggers were shown)
Fixed a bug where some objects in a Greenhouse Tower weren’t visible for clients in a co-op session
Fixed a bug where players couldn’t use the Artifact Trade Station properly with a controller
Fixed a bug where clients in a co-op session saw some strange items in the middle of Underdust: Suburbs
Fixed a bug where clients in a co-op session stopped seeing the Dust after they returned to the same location for the second time
Fixed a bug where the crosshair disappeared after opening and closing the pause Menu
Fixed a bug where clients, after joining a co-op session, saw an empty Radar (and it got refreshed only after moving the airship)
Fixed a bug where some in-game screens lost their focus and couldn’t be interacted with when using a controller
Fixed a bug where resources on a Standard Wind Farm lower landing pad were visible & floating midair after scanning the Wrecked Basic Turbine and then visiting a different Standard Wind Farm
Fixed a bug where consuming items from dropped stacks removed the whole stack but gave a boost from a single item only
Fixed a bug where clients, after joining a co-op session, couldn’t see the quest log on their HUD
Fixed a bug where the Garden Pots preview stayed visible after the player moved the Sprinklers
Fixed a bug where the ghost previews for Garden Pots, flickered while the airship was moving
Fixed a bug where the Select Item menu was opening when the player wanted to pick up an object from the ground with a controller
Fixed a rare bug where a client in a co-op session saw the Extractor ray pointed in a weird direction instead of towards the extracted object
Fixed a bug with the player changing their look direction after using the Select Item menu with a controller
Fixed a bug where Descent to the Underdust “!” mark stayed on the Radar after leaving this location
Fixed a bug where Radar was placed upside down after loading a game or moving it
Fixed a bug where player could lock their movement after using Cure from any container other than the inventory
Fixed a bug where Friendly Insect Pet stayed in its cage after being rescued by a client in a co-op session
Fixed a bug where Medical Station collisions prevented placement of other devices on the floor down below it
Fixed a bug where a player standing from a chair could’ve been flying and falling off an airship
Fixed a bug where a player using a controller had an additional, invisible row between Inventory and Backpack
Fixed a bug where Friendly Insect Pet could get lost forever after player death
Fixed a bug where Soft Cushion could be lost when placed on Catwalks and taken by a Scrapwing Hatchery
Fixed a bug where blueprints in Artifact Trade Station and Technology Printer could be bought more than once
Fixed a bug where the player couldn’t switch filters on an empty container of a Filtering Deck Extractor
A set of vines, which could spawn on Wild Habitat arenas removed
Level design and level art improved in some locations for a better exploration
Several of the most common sources of a crashing game have been removed
Final texture added to the recharge strap of the Extractor tool

Known Issues:

There’s a rare bug where the radial menu (C key bind) stops working and requires a save and reload to start working again
There is a bug where the player’s position while using the Medical Station change when an airship is flying