Scavland Updates &
Release Timeline.

Early Access Live

Sept 4, 2026

Steam Early Access · Act I

Community Scale

230K+

Global Steam Wishlists

Launch Scope

25+ Guns

Attachment-heavy gunsmithing

One Month in Early Access: scavland.com Portal & Community Picks #1 Announced

Developer NoShadow marks 30 days in Early Access with the launch of the official website, interactive roadmap, and preview of upcoming Community Picks #1.

• Official website and interactive development roadmap launched live at scavland.com.
• Next update confirmed as "Community Picks #1", prepared to launch alongside Scavland's very first Video DevLog while maintaining full traditional written changelogs.
• Confirmed future content scope will systematically add new locations, biomes, creatures, weapons, and equipment throughout Early Access.
• Full 1.0 release targets 12 to 24 month window, with 2-4 player squad co-op multiplayer confirmed on the roadmap.

Hotfix 0.7.2: Raisa Jobs Rebalancing & World Chunk Fix

A rapid follow-up hotfix addressing diplomatic job progression and world terrain loading.

• Raisa (Diplomat) can offer a follow-up job without waiting for the current one to finish.
• Rebalancing of Raisa jobs.
• Fixed some world chunks not loading across the wasteland sectors.

Hotfix 0.7.1: Stash Interaction Fix

A swift follow-up hotfix addressing player stash accessibility after Update 0.7.0.

• Fixed stash not opening for some players upon interacting with storage containers in settlements.
• Released following Update 0.7.0 to guarantee persistent inventory access across all safehouses and camps.

Update 0.7.0: Stash Expansions, Rebuilt Death Screen & Combat Rebalance

Another substantial update: stash expansions, a rebuilt Death Screen, and major passes across weapon durability, accuracy, stamina, Traders, Jobs, AI and the world.

• Stash expansions: buy one from a Trader for 50,000 Rubles to unlock an extra Stash tab. Stashes and crafting tables were added to all main camps, but for now only the main village has upgradable stashes.
• Traders now pay an additional 5% sell value per Trader Rank.
• Death Screen rebuilt with real actions instead of any-key: Returner gets Continue / Load Game, Iron Man gets New Game / Exit, Tutorial gets Try Again, with full gamepad support.
• Each run now has its own Autosave Slot, protecting the save you're currently playing.
• Weapon durability and repairs reworked: weapons last significantly longer, jams are less punishing, and a large part of the arsenal gained accuracy, range, durability and damage improvements.
• Also added: Green Rags in the starter kit, and a 30-round magazine for the Thread Cutter. Existing saves stay compatible, but the developer recommends starting a new game.

Hotfix 0.6.3: NPC Interaction Fix

A second same-day hotfix cleared an interaction blocker introduced by the new sleep system.

• Fixed not being able to interact with the Zoran NPC because of the bed-sleep interaction.
• Superseded by Update 0.7.0 on 2026-09-16. Source: the official Steam announcement feed.

Hotfix 0.6.2: Sleep Healing & Leon 1895 Damage Buff

The first post-0.6.0 hotfix made sleeping restorative and raised the damage of the Leon 1895 family.

• Leon 1895 (short, standard and long) does +50% projectile damage.
• Sleeping now restores 5 health per in-game hour.
• Torch and barrel lighting pass, a Tarja's house fix, and missing trees added.
• Gamepad cancel-job confirmation now moves between No and Yes; notification toasts no longer spawn in the wrong place.

Update 0.6.0: Sleeping, Rebuilt Controls, Jobs Overhaul & Trader Rebalance

The largest patch of the Early Access period so far.

• Sleeping added: rest in beds to skip time while the world keeps running. The sleep screen previews how your stats will change, saving is disabled during sleep, and taking damage wakes you.
• Controls & Keybinding rebuilt: the Controls page is split into Movement, Combat, Inventory, Crafting, Trader, Map, Journal and General, with hold/tap combinations and a new context-sensitive Action Hint Bar.
• Jobs & Journal overhaul: track multiple jobs, cancel from the Journal (a cancelled job costs 20% of its reputation reward, minimum 1), partial item turn-ins, and Quest vs Job items shown in different colours.
• Traders & economy rebalance: traders specialise more — Zhivan pays 140% for Common items, Vesna 75%, Nadja 90% for Common and 80% for Crafting, Grigory has dropped Medical/Food/Crafting but pays more for weapon attachments, Volodymyr sells far more attachments and offers the Advanced Weapon Repair Kit recipe at Rank 2, and Bogdan pays 40% more for Mutant Parts.
• Weapons, items and armour: weapon range up by +1 or +2 across the board, MK-47 reclassified as Basic tier, armour durability rebalanced (Tattered 4 to 3, Scavenger 5 to 4, Medium 6 to 5, Heavy 7 to 6), IFAK stacking raised to 3.
• Simplified Chinese added as an early, non-final localisation so the Chinese community can play in their own language ahead of the official translation.

Day One Patch 0.5.169: Explorer Mode, Campfire Healing & a Wider Stash

The Day One patch landed the day after launch, responding to feedback from the first 24 hours.

• Explorer game mode added. Maximum Stamina is 150 in Explorer and 100 in Returner and Iron Man.
• Campfire healing, a much bigger Stash, doubled Stamina, and new medical blueprints.
• A broad balance pass across survival, traders, armour, items and mutants.
• The developer apologised that Simplified Chinese had been listed as supported at release; that listing was removed until the official localisation is ready, with a community-made unofficial translation available in the meantime.

Scavland Launches into Early Access

After six years of development Scavland launched into Steam Early Access, with more than 230,000 wishlists behind it.

• The developer thanked the community, noting the project grew from a small team effort into something far bigger than anyone imagined.
• A launch-day livestream ran with the game designer.
• Early Access was framed as "only the beginning", with in-game bug report, suggestion and balance feedback buttons.

100,000 Steam Wishlists

Scavland passed 100,000 wishlists ahead of the September 4 launch date.

• The developer described the game as a six-year journey.
• The team had grown from 3 developers to around 15 over the past year.
• The world is now roughly 3x larger, with new settlements, roads, faction territories and a complete visual overhaul.
• Procedurally generated underground bunkers were added, bringing a different kind of exploration below the surface.

Scavland Demo Goes Live (v0.2.4.1)

The public demo build was released alongside a v0.2.4.1 changelog on the Steam news feed.

• This is the last pre-release build documented on the official Steam announcement feed.
• The public patch history above resumes with the September 2026 Early Access launch.