High Stakes Update
October 16, 2026
Depot rework, gambling, hazard suit, new world gen, and more
The Stakes Have Been Raised.
Update 0.22 - High Stakes introduces a major Depot rework, gambling, the new Hazard Suit, cliffs, rivers, rock formations, Military Crates, and a range of gameplay and quality-of-life improvements.
Try your luck at Depot, explore new terrain, and discover new places to build across the island!
Depot Monument Rework
Depot has received a major rework, including a brand new look, many places to lounge around and chat with other survivors, a shooting range,
and...
Gambling!
Gambling has arrived at the Depot! Players can now spend their shreds to try their luck with three different games:
- Betting Wheel
- Blackjack
- Slot Machines
Just remember, the house always wins.
Hazard Suit
A new Hazard Suit has been added to Strayed! this is a one piece suit for general protection purposes. It can be researched and crafted.
World Generation
The island has received several major additions to its terrain generation, including:
- Cliffs
- Rivers
- Lakes
- New rock formations, including God Rocks
These additions bring more variety to the island's landscape, creating new areas to explore and build around, with god rocks being especially strong to build in.
Military Crates
New Military Crates have been added to Strayed, introducing an additional tier of loot containers between medium-tier crates and the existing high-tier Metal Crates.
Military Crates can be found in Card Rooms and will occasionally appear in monuments.
Metal Crates have also been made more valuable and can now only be found inside Red Vaults.
Loot Rebalancing
The loot system has received a major overhaul, changing how items are selected and distributed.
- Loot picking logic has been replaced with a much better system
- All loot probabilities have been altered
- Many items have been shifted around the loot pool
- All vaults have been rebalanced
These changes affect both where items can be found and how frequently they appear.
Gameplay & Quality of Life
- Players can now see their own body and equipped clothing in first-person view
- Ammunition can now be unloaded from weapons directly in the inventory
- Foundations can now be placed on rock structures
Nightfall Returns!
Nightfall is back for Halloween!
The eerie orange moon returns to the skies above Strayed, and Jack-o'-lanterns are once again appearing throughout the island's loot tables.
Reaper Skin Pack
Celebrate Halloween with the new Reaper Skin Pack!
The Reaper Pack is available for a limited time only and will be leaving the store just a few days after Halloween, so make sure to grab it while you can!
The pack includes:
- Reaper Hazard Suit
- Reaper AK
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Whether you're testing your luck at Depot, exploring the island's new terrain, or finding new places to call home, High Stakes brings new opportunities and experiences to Strayed.
Full Patch Notes
Added
- Hazard Suit
- Gambling games to Depot
- Blackjack
- Slot machines
- Betting wheel
- Large Rock Formations (God Rocks)
- Cliffs
- Lakes
- Rivers
- Depot redesign
- Military Crates
- Present in card rooms and rarely in monuments
- Body visible in first-person view
- Ability to unload guns within inventory
- Halloween content
Changed
- Loot Rebalancing
- Loot picking logic has been replaced with a much better system
- All loot probabilities have been altered
- Many items have been shifted around the loot pool
- All vaults have been rebalanced
- Map generation has been made less hilly and generally flatter
- Animals now react to explosions
- Animals take damage from explosions
Fixed
- Rockets not colliding/damaging vehicles
- Left handed AK hand pose on remote players
- Terrain deployables (high walls/gates, large furnaces, etc) not being rotatable
- Hose tool showing a lightning bolt instead of a water droplet icon
- Water Barrels not showing their contents when aimed at with hose tool
- Electrical/irrigation ports sometimes breaking when creating a wire
- Reduced clipping of player mesh into clothing items (still being worked on)
- Rare SteamVR crash due to some legacy code
- Map gen desync between server and client
- Case where a random empty slot appears in loot containers
- Time of day not saving between server restarts
- Time of day sync inaccuracy
- Grenade launchers not saving their loaded ammo
- Ocean surface visibly ‘shaking’
- Snap deployables not being place-able after aiming at an obstructed position
- Switching items while gripping front of gun causing hands to break
- Traps shooting / damaging through doors
- Finger poses not being synced on remote players
- Boat pull-start rope floating in the air when let go
- Roads sometimes placing through / under monuments
- Many props having incorrect footstep sounds
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