The full scope of  the Taming update contains:

• New Bond system
  Includes benefits when tamed creatures are well cared for
  Creatures may release themselves if neglected

• Petting interaction with tamed creatures
  Increases bond with tamed creatures

• Brand new Creature traits
  4 tiers of traits from common to legendary
  Each trait adds a unique benefit to every tamed creature
  More than 15 traits

• Multiple active tamed creatures
  Players now have a party budget which allows for multiple, active tamed creatures
  Each creature has it’s own budget value depending on species, level and traits

• New taming system
  4 new tiers of deployable taming traps, which work on all tamable creatures
  Updated NPC dialogue and recipes for the new traps and baits required to craft them
  More engaging capture encounters with random chance elements

• Improved tame survivability
  Tamed creates will now be ‘incapacitated’ when their health hits 0
  New item for reviving incapacitated tames

• New player options
  Including controls for turning off tamed creature death

Traverse lake sized puddles and mountainous trees as you battle against the landscape and elements themselves. Tame and ride monstrous creatures from grasshoppers to geckos in a bid to survive in a harsh and wild world. Play solo or with up to 9 friends, with dedicated server support, emotes and more.

Developed and published in-house, Smalland: Survive the Wilds launched to version 1.0 via Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S back in February, hitting a peak of over 52k daily players and garnering over 1.9 million Twitch watch hours to date.

Uncover ancient lore scattered throughout a multitude of diverse biomes as you learn to survive, battling the hostile wilderness and elements themselves.

Tame and ride wild creatures including colossal bugs, birds, lizards and more, with each mount providing unique means of traversal.

Craft powerful armour sets to personalise your appearance and arm yourself with a myriad of lethal weapons from great hammers to ballistic hand cannons.

Build encampments and claim a Great Tree to design a base that will follow you to any world, allowing you to join any server and take your camp with you.

Develop your Smallfolk by levelling up your character and mounts, while scavenging resources to refine and craft gear, items, food and more.

Players are invited to explore solo or with up to 9 additional friends in multiplayer as you battle to conquer the world and its inhabitants.

Smalland: Survive the Wilds Key Features:

• Scale skyscraper sized trees, scramble through cavernous cracks in roads, and more as you experience the unique biomes of Smalland’s huge open world.

• Craft powerful armour sets to personalise your appearance, grant you resistance from the elements, abilities and more

• Tame and ride wild creatures from Geckos to Scorpions, the world and its inhabitants are yours to conquer

• Scavenge, refine and craft resources to build your encampment on the ground or in the canopy

• Claim a Great Tree to design and build a base that will follow you to any world

• Uncover ancient lore from hidden NPCs scattered throughout the world as you learn to survive in this hostile wilderness.

• Play solo or with up to 9 additional friends in multiplayer with crossplay between Steam and Epic Games Store

Smalland: Survive the Wilds is developed and published by Merge Games, a Maximum Entertainment company. Out now on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S!