Major Updates

A catalog of all major version changes of The Isle, not including small patches and hotfixes.

## Update 2: Blood

The first major update after release, fleshing out the roster and bringing more core mechanics into play.

## Update 3: Fishing + Fishers

Soar through the skies as the nimble Pteranodon or delve the darkest depths as the terrifying Deinosuchus. Update #3 has surfaced and brought with it a plethora of new additions, now available on Steam.

### Trailer - New Heights, New Depths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAepgPiaQfg

### Update 3.5

Update #3.5 brings with it a plethora of quality of life improvements. Sink your claws into the flesh of your prey with the addition of pouncing for the juvenile Utahraptor. In addition, you'll also find the new Interactive Water system ripples and flows with all forms of movement, allowing for a variety of new emergent gameplay opportunities.

#### Trailer - Juvenile Pouncing & Interactive Water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5SavZb7ook

## Update 4: Diets + Fractures

It's time to stretch your legs, clamber out from beneath those bushes and explore a whole new environment filled with a wide array of exotic foliage and fauna. Compete for these new resources and gorge yourself on them to maximize your strength and secure a swift passage to adulthood with the all-new Diet System. Paired with the arrival of the island's latest inhabitant, Pachycephalosaurus, comes the new locational Fracture System. It's now more important than ever to pick your fights wisely, lest you find yourself at the mercy of an assortment of crippling injuries.

### Trailer - Subsistence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X90SljCJ5lQ

## Update 5: Ancestry

Time to harness your creativity & shepherd unruly broods, for the long-awaited Update 5 is finally here. Leave your mark by personalizing your dinosaur with an assortment of new patterns and colors. The improved Skin System significantly builds upon its Legacy counterpart by providing more nuance, clarity, control and sharing options that will ensure you stand out from the rest of the herd. Keeping with the trend, the new Nesting System is also a marked improvement over its former version featuring courting, nest creation, nest management, hatchling interactions, nesting grounds and more. So invite your friends to your nest and see if you can help the next generation survive The Isle.

### Trailer - Creation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Ud9U8O9u4

### Update 5.5: Night Vision

You won't be stumbling around in the dark anymore. Update 5.5 is now available on the EVRIMA Public Branch, bringing forth our first iteration of the long awaited Night Vision mechanic that was built utilizing feedback from our diligent stress testing team. In a future patch, specifically our upcoming Night Terrors (6.5) update, we will be revisiting & expanding the Night Vision system to provide extra depth and accommodate for the more horrifying inhabitants stalking The Isle.

## Update 6: Gore

Update 6 brings forth the first iteration of gore, gifting each dinosaur with a plethora of delectable organs to feast upon. Meat, fresh and otherwise will impact your diet positively or negatively based on what part of a corpse you eat and how old it is. Utilize scent to select the best bits for yourself, leaving the rest for the scavengers. A discerning carnivore is drawn to death but wary of decay.

### Trailer - Death & Decay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0duW8gYhc4

### Update 6.5: Night Terrors

Dinner for four.

Experience the shift to Unreal Engine 5 with the overdue 6.5 update. Discover the ravenous appetite of the Ceratosaurus, a predator and scavenger capable of gorging itself on decaying corpses to inflict devastating bacteria-infected wounds. Immerse yourself in the aquatic realm alongside the Beipiaosaurus, as it breaches the water's surface with grace and dives for prey along the riverbeds. Unite your flock and sprint across the plains as the Gallimimus, the embodiment of speed and finesse. But beware, when night falls the horde stirs. Troodons are cunning predators armed with venomous strikes that leave their prey vulnerable.

#### Trailer - Hunger Pains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufjcXVKyr2Q