What changed in PEAK in 2026

The title screen is back to the beach, this is how it's gonna look FOREVER.

Fixed being able to start climbing when being carried by a condor and teleporting you back to the wall once the condor releases you.

The Play Dead emote now locks you from item switching for its duration, preventing an exploit where players could drop from heights and receive no fall damage if they swapped items rapidly in this state.

Fixed an issue where the Bookworm Badge would reset its progress at the start of every run.

Fixed an issue where the Aeronautics Badge could be acquired by someone else in your lobby performing its requirements.

Localization and text UI improvement pass throughout the game.

The Daredevil Badge unlock requirement should now work properly.

Attempting to join a room that doesn't exist should no longer cause the game to get stuck on a loading screen.

Fixed a case where longer runs would suddenly start lagging out of nowhere.

Guidebook scrolls should no longer disappear when opened.

Fixed an issue where other players taking poison damage would not cause them to flash purple.

Fixed an issue where lava flows would give you stamina when hitting you, which would let you exploit them for extended climbs with items that grant invincibility.

The crosshair for the Rescue Claw will now turn yellow when hovering over a player as opposed to terrain.

Fixed weight not being updated when placing an item into a backpack that is on the ground.

Rapidly dropping/picking up items in a laggy lobby should no longer delete items.

Fixed Render Scales looking REALLY BAD on anything lower than Native

Condors now fly around the CALDERA, adding to the environment.

Fixed the coloring issue of 'evil bounce mushrooms' in the ROOTS variant.

Players can now use room codes to join games across platforms.

You can no longer duplicate a Scout Effigy with Scout’s Generosity.

Fixed an issue where Pandora’s Lunchbox would only inflict one type of status.

Fixed Steam Avatars not showing up at the right spot in the pause menu

Spike traps with terrain generated on top will not trigger.

Using the Rescue Claw on a friend will ragdoll them for less time.

New HUD indicator shows when you are muted while using PUSH TO TALK/PUSH TO MUTE settings.

Frogs now correctly turn into Frog Legs when cooked by environmental situations.

Bouncing onto a mushroom from higher up will now reduce unpredictable off-angles.

Added 2 more luggages in THE KILN spawner and removed 1 from CALDERA, ensuring better luggage spawns.

The CALDERA and THE KILN have been re-added to the map rotation with additional features.

Jump height will decay slightly faster on consecutive bounces.

Max velocity from bouncing off a mushroom from high up has been raised for consistency.

Dislodging stuck-in arrows will no longer take priority over other interactions.

Fixed a case where the host's dropped items would disappear if they disconnected.

Campfire save will now remember all items around it instead of just carried items.

Fixed a case where the 'Peaks Summitted' stat would increment multiple times upon winning.

Added a new batch of maps with Gloom/Citadel to the daily rotation.

Looker rocks should once again match the biome they’re in.

Reduced number of Clown Luggages needed to complete the Jester Achievement from 3 to 2.

Fixed the sprite that appears when unlocking the sash after completing Ascent 8.

Fixed an issue where Big Ghosts could sometimes spawn slightly too high underground.

Improved map generation to prevent Amulet statues spawning inside of rocks.

Cooking the Book of Bones will no longer provide any benefit.

Basic scout hats and berets should now be properly textured to match new costumes.

Pandora’s Lunchbox can now add some Curse to you and will ignore Invincibility when adding statuses.

Fixed a scenario where the checkpoint flag could leave scouts in a broken state on another player’s screen.

Color Blindness Mode will now make the Arrow Shooter 'laser' more visible for red-green color blindness.

The glider now rotates forward in your hands when out of stamina.

Thickened the colliders on wrought-iron fences to reduce player ragdoll issues.

Reverted the stamina cost change for grabbing ropes based on distance.

Fixed the Bing Bong Airlines logo appearing backwards on the helicopter.

Anti-gravity spheres shot from the Antizooka now only last one minute.

Fixed an issue where cloning the jetpack with Scout’s Generosity created a jetpack with maximum fuel.

The Glider now protects you from the sun’s heat in MESA.

Fixed a localization issue where Traditional Chinese text would display in Simplified Chinese.

The Scout’s Generosity amulet can no longer clone Scout Effigy.

Fixed the Glider’s networking so player positions are synced properly.

Big Ghosts will now avoid spawning directly underneath players better.

Nerfed frogs: Max Tongue Distance 22m to 18m, Max Tongue Angle 16° to 14°, Cooldown 10s to 12s.

The Glider no longer gives forward momentum when ragdolled.

Fixed an issue with the collision of the backpack-shaped rock.

Fixed issue where players would stay muffled after dying to a flytrap.

Picking up an Amulet now properly awards the Esoterica Badge.

Jumping off a rope or chain now gives a vertical boost, climbing costs slightly more stamina, and there's a small stamina penalty for magnet-ing from far away.

Glider no longer ignores custom run and ascent level’s stamina usage modification.

Fixed an issue where level generation could soft-lock a run by placing a rock in the wrong place.

Improved level generation in THE CITADEL to prevent floating obstacles.

Fixed an issue where killing a player with a Checkpoint Flag could break their voice chat and mess up their character animations.

Capped how far forward the Big Ghost can spawn in GLOOM to prevent ambushes.

Fixed an issue where the Ritual Dagger could be used indefinitely.

Fixed an issue where you could be stuck with permanent anti-gravity if you exited an anti-gravity sphere in specific ways.

Skeleton Scouts are now affected by spiders, flytraps, and arrow traps.

Fixed an issue where scouts would sometimes not get achievements for completing biomes after loading an auto-save or reconnecting.

Portable stove cooking time restored to 60 seconds.

Frogs now have a global cooldown where no other frog can grab you if you’ve recently been grabbed.

Infinite Stamina will no longer immediately set your stamina to max and will allow normal regeneration while performing stamina-using actions.

Energy Drink now removes a flat 50% Drowsy and gives a flat 25% Drowsy when it wears off.

Fixed issues where players received poison damage from non-food cooked items.

Made Scout Cannon slightly less common.

Drowsy decays slightly faster in all situations.

Fixed issue where throwing an egg would only stick for the host.

The Portable Stove no longer spawns in the fourth Biome.

Fixed issue where grabbing pitons would sometimes not work.

Ancient Luggage spawns slightly more commonly in all biomes.

Made Scoutmaster’s Bugle slightly more common.

The MESA has been lowered in height to match the ALPINE.

The Anti-Rope Spool no longer makes sound while in the backpack.

Introduced new items including Jetpack, Warp Fungus, and Glider.

New variant biomes GLOOM and THE CITADEL will be added, replacing CALDERA and THE KILN.

Cursed Skull bonus stamina gain increased to 100%.

Fixed issue where Player 1 becomes unresponsive after selecting an item.

Fixed issue where items from a previous run could spawn for late-joining players.

Increased average time between windstorms.

Fortified Milk is now slightly rarer but cures more hunger.

Changed revive mechanic to allow players to revive but with a curse penalty.

Heavily reduced the frequency of unnatural arm twisting when holding items.

Added GLOOM and THE CITADEL, randomly replacing CALDERA and THE KILN on some maps.

Ascent 8 has been added with a spoiler description for players to discover.

Made several changes to beetle behavior to reduce aggression.

Open Clown Luggage to get wacky items like Lollipop, Cannon, and Balloon Bunch.

Fixed issue where some badges would clip into the sash and not be visible.

Carried scouts will now be affected by the Remedy Fungus healing AoE.

Fixed issues with the blindness affliction duration.

Made Checkpoint Flag a bit rarer & removed it from Climber Luggage.

Fixed issues related to incinerated Scout Cookies giving incorrect poison damage.

Decreased radius and affliction of spore mushrooms in ROOTS.

Added 10 new badges to unlock along with new cosmetics.

Campfires now give Morale Boosts to solo players.

Loading an existing auto-save will no longer delete the save until the run ends.

The game is now localized in Traditional Chinese.

Fixed the bug causing random fall damage when grabbing the wall with no stamina.

PropSpawner_* classes are now child classes of PropSpawner.

Number of maps in build changed from 21 -> 42.

Fixed lava rivers never showing up inside the Kiln.

Scouts will no longer sometimes get Mentorship Badge for no reason.

Bonking into the wall during a failed Helping Hand will no longer rapidly drain all your stamina.

LightVolume.Bake and PropGrouper.Run have been made async methods.

The BiomeResults inside MapBaker.selectedBiomes now includes a list of the selected variantName for each respective biome.

Improved randomization of map gen seeds.

Mesa Oasis/Mirage will now appropriately randomize their trees and bushes.

Added LevelGeneration.Run console command (doing this during a run will probably just break your game, though).

Updated Unity project version to 6.3.15f1.

Autosaves will now self-destruct AFTER a player successfully resumes the run, rather than when they start loading the map.

Fixed Magic Beanstalks not showing up for late-joining players.

Decreased patch install size slightly.

Raytrace shaders are now serialized into their respective fields in LightVolume.

Fixed MOST REMAINING CASES where taking an item out while facing a wall (especially the backpack) would cause it to clip through the world and disappear.

Fixed issue where voice chat would break after leaving and rejoining a game.

Significantly reduced the number of cases where Helping Hand would fail to be helpful.

Reconnecting to a game with an item in your hand will no longer sometimes cause the player to take fall damage.

Resolved cases where items, especially backpacks, would clip through the world and disappear.

Resolved an issue where most or all luggage would fail to spawn in the Kiln; maps have been regenerated.

Significantly reduced the number of cases where Helping Hand would fail to be helpful.

Bonking into the wall during a failed Helping Hand will no longer rapidly drain all your stamina.

(Hopefully) Fixed all the invisible rocks in Mesa

Resolved cases where taking an item out while facing a wall would cause it to clip through the world and disappear.

Resolved an issue where most or all of the luggage would fail to spawn in the Kiln; maps have been regenerated.

Map count reduced until build stabilizes

Significantly reduced the number of cases where Helping Hand would fail to be helpful.

Mesa Oasis/Mirage will now appropriately randomize their trees and bushes

Bonking into the wall during a failed Helping Hand will no longer rapidly drain all your stamina.

Map count temporarily reduced to 14 until build stabilizes

Resolved an issue where Magic Beanstalks did not appear for players joining late.

Slight reduction in the size of the patch installation.

Enhancements made to the randomization process for map generation seeds.

Raytrace shaders are now serialized into their respective fields in LightVolume.

TornadoHell and BombBeetle variants have been reintroduced in the beta.

BiomeResults now includes a list of the selected variantName for each respective biome.

Resolved an issue where lava rivers were not appearing inside the Kiln.

Significant optimization of meshes, particularly improving performance in the Roots area.

New console command added, though it may cause issues if used during a run.

The number of maps in the build has changed from 21 to 42.

Autosaves will now self-destruct after a player successfully resumes the run.

Unity project version updated to 6.3.15f1.

These enemies will no longer appear in the potential variants for the Roots and Mesa maps.

Slightly less spore clouds will appear on some of the more challenging Roots variants to reduce difficulty temporarily.

Resolved the lighting issue in the Kiln that appeared in the previous patch.

A new batch of maps has been added for the daily rotation.

The patch has been rolled back because of a lighting issue.

A new batch of maps has been added to the daily rotation.

A new batch of maps has been added to the daily rotation.

Fixed the SHORE title card not showing up when starting a new run

Campfires' lit status will now sync when a player joins after a campfire is lit but before it burnt out

Players that disconnect in Caldera and reconnect in the Kiln will come back dead unless the revive statue was used to revive other scouts

Fixed a case where the Mycoacrobatics Badge would calculate your height wrong after multiple bounces

Fixed some cases where items were not cooking in lava when they should

Fixed a case where reconnecting players would fail to spawn their scout

Fixed a case where falling but taking 0 damage could still invalidate the Balloon Badge requirements

Fixed a major issue with ropes that was causing the game to hitch if many ropes were placed in the same biome

Progress towards multi-run achievements won't accumulate in Custom Runs (where all achievements are supposed to be disabled)

Night will once again be cold in Ascent 5+ and on custom runs when the setting is active

Guidebook pages will no longer spawn in custom runs

Campfires' lit status will now sync when a player joins after a campfire is lit but before it burnt out.

Fixed a major issue with ropes that was causing the game to hitch if many ropes were placed in the same biome.

Guidebook pages will no longer spawn in custom runs.

Players that disconnect in Caldera and reconnect in the Kiln will come back dead unless the revive statue was used to revive other scouts.

Night will once again be cold in Ascent 5+ and on custom runs when the setting is active.

Progress towards multi-run achievements won't accumulate in Custom Runs (where all achievements are supposed to be disabled).

Fixed a case where reconnecting players would fail to spawn their scout.

Made some performance improvements related to disabling unneeded code when items are inert on the ground.

Fixed bug where Ascent 5+ players loading from save or connecting to an ongoing run would get cold in the Caldera.

Campfire saves will now correctly save the state of spawned items around the campfire, such as marshmallows.

Fixed an issue where loading a campfire save could give you certain unearned badges related to previous biomes.

Fixed some cases where the scout report would draw off-screen.

Old campfire saves will be deleted upon first launch of this update due to structural changes.

Scout report now plays back at constant speed regardless of how long a run took.

Resolved an issue where chill campfires would not prevent lava from rising.

Marshmallows will not spawn at the beginning of a Mini Run anymore.

The new 'Kick' feature has been relocated to the 'Stupid Stuff' section in Custom Runs.

Fixed a bug where the completed Ascent and highest completed Ascent could show incorrect values or sash colors.

Players can now disable Scorpions in Custom Runs.

Fixed an issue where the Accolades menu displayed the wrong Sash color and Scout Rank.

Resolved an issue where the Continue Run button could not be selected when using a controller.

Resolved scenarios where players could end up with mismatched custom run settings when joining a run after it had started.

Adjusted the brightness of the pre-splash logo sequence for improved visual comfort.

Rescue Hook now puts players in a ragdolled state for a shorter duration.

Scouts will now revive correctly after reconnecting.

Continue from the last campfire until you win, lose, or start a new expedition.

Fixed division by zero issue when interacting with rope shooters.

Endgame scout report works properly after disconnecting/reconnecting.

Play a single biome of today's map for shorter sessions.

Stay by a campfire without gaining hunger or fog progression.

Alternative aesthetic for mushroom enemies for accessibility.

Resolved a bug where flares that were supposed to be at the Peak weren't spawning when loading a campfire save inside the Kiln.

Modify difficulty settings, gameplay hazards, and item spawns in runs.

Audio sliders and kick button show immediately when a new player joins.

Disconnected skeleton scouts remain skeletons upon reconnecting.

Fixed issue where Player 3 and Player 4 would spawn in the same location.

Achievements in a single run maintain progress after disconnecting/reconnecting.

The Wizard Hat is no longer invisible.

Addressed issues where the scout report would behave unexpectedly.

Enhanced lobby security to ensure unauthorized players are kicked faster.

PEAK has been updated to build off of Unity 6.0.62f1.

Resolved issues with some characters' idle animations not functioning correctly.

Fixed a problem where the lobby host could appear invisible to players with slower computers.

Increased the number of maps available in the game rotation.

Potential fix for lobby hosts being invisible to other players with slow computers

Potential fix for hackers bypassing the kick system to grief a lobby

Restored functionality for modders to apply statuses from float arrays, limited to host.

Fixed a bug making it difficult to adjust mic levels in the pause menu with a controller.

It is no longer possible to set yourself as host from within a mod.

The game now asks for confirmation when hitting Leave Game on the pause menu.

Hosts can now kick players from the lobby using a boot icon next to audio sliders.

Scorpions will stop stinging immediately when picked up, allowing players time to throw them.

Scouts can once again roll snowballs to make them bigger in Alpine.

Players can no longer use rich text tags in their names to annoy friends.

Improved connection handling for players joining mid-game, including ghost spawn checks and revives.

Players with newer Radeon graphics cards should experience slightly better framerates.

Scorpions are still mean until next week's fixes due to a previous patch issue.

Added more maps into the rotation

Removed the holiday event changes (except snow piles which can still be found in Alpine)