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• Patch Notes·3 Oct 2025Official

  Verdant Skies 1.5.3 - Fix Unity Security Vulnerability

  This morning Unity reported a security vulnerability in its engine and provided a fix. Verdant Skies has been rebuilt with that fix.Details about their vulnerability are here:https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-59489I don't think there's really any chance Verdant Skies would be a vector for this attack, but I've fixed the issue anyway! Enjoy!
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• Patch Notes·8 Sept 2025Official

  Update 1.5.2

  Fix settings text that could run off the screen when using the mouse and keyboard overlays.Fix a scrolling issue with controllers on the Blueprint Machine in the very late game (when you have more than one full screen of unlocked blueprints)
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• Patch Notes·6 Sept 2025Official

  Version 1.5.1: Bug fix in game intro

  Hi everyone, the issue where mouse and keyboard players could get stuck in the intro has been fixed in version 1.5.1. Sorry about that! I was very focused on controller testing, and that seems to have slipped in at the end of the process.Thank you to everyone who reported this! ːvs_berryː
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• Patch Notes·4 Sept 2025Official

  The 2025 Update! Adding Steam Deck Support!

  It’s been a while since we had a Verdant Skies update, and this has turned out to be a big one!There were two big goals with this update- finish up full controller support for the Steam Deck and to keep the game running on modern systems by updating the underlying engine. These two items turned out to be a fair bit of work!I’m a firm believer in keeping a game working as long as possible. I want Verdant Skies to be a game you can come back to years later. You should be able to reinstall it 10 years later and play it with your kids.Fortunately, Verdant Skies has been very stable on both Windows and Linux through the years, but I wanted to update the game ahead of compatibility problems. This meant upgrading the game from Unity 2017 to 2019.4.39… then to 2020.3.40, then 2021.3.11, then through several point releases up to 2021.3.55f1, which, despite the confusing name, was released on Aug 5, 2025.Steam Deck VerificationSteam Deck Verification was another big goal for this update. We already had great native Linux support, and our performance was carefully managed, so it ran quite well on the console. But the Steam Deck is very strict about being able to access the entire game with the controllers. So I redid a ton of UIs. I found I needed to rework many of them entirely to make them easier to navigate with the controller. I also added controller-specific navigation tips, better arrows to indicate which button is focused, etc. Verdant Skies contains about 103 distinct UI windows, from the AlarmClockUI to WoodStainSelectionUI. So this was a huge amount of work.Virtual keyboard support was another early pain-point. There’s only a handful of places in Verdant Skies where you can enter text, but a lot of games get by without any. But I believe naming yourself, your colonists, and your animals is really important to the vision of the game. For best accessibility, I use the system UIs for virtual keyboards - on Steam Deck, that means Steam’s popup keyboard.I upgraded Rewired...
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• Patch Notes·22 Apr 2021Official

  Verdant Skies v1.4.6

  Fixed a rare bug where fertilizing empty plots occasionally produces saves that cannot be loaded. This update can load those saves. Thanks to RIck for reporting this issue.
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