- News feed on the main menu, latest updates at a glance, with a link to the new website
- Rivers and lakes: real waterways that flow with the terrain, ships can sail them, and nobody can claim them
- Live online counter on the website (see who's playing before you launch)
- World generation rebuilt from the ground up: coherent continents, real mountain ranges with valleys and passes, regional deserts, forests, cliffs and fjords, every seed is a place now, not noise
- Coastlines and shores are smoother than ever
- Buildings can no longer spawn on riverbeds or absurd slopes
- Multiplayer stability hardening under the hood
- Leaderboard profile is reloaded fresh after every game (no more stale ranking)
- Mission memo can be permanently dismissed
- Various map rendering artifacts (phantom lines, white coastal fringes)