SCUM’s July Update Sends Players After Mutant Wildlife
Version 1.3.2.0.134527 adds the TEC1 Conditioning Facility, three Master Hunter quest tiers, 80-player official servers, and a long list of fixes.
SCUM version 1.3.2.0.134527 is now live on PC, bringing the July update for the Into the Wild season. The patch adds the TEC1 Conditioning Facility, mutant deer, boar, and wolves, plus a new Master Hunter questline with three tiers of challenges and exclusive rewards. The full announcement is available in the official Steam update notes.
Gamepires also confirmed that Into the Wild will continue through August and September. The season was originally planned to run from May through July, but the additional updates will keep building on hunting, cooking, food systems, and fishing.
A new place to learn the basics
The TEC1 Conditioning Facility is a standalone tutorial area designed to teach movement, stealth, crafting, healing, combat, and encounters with puppets before players head into the Island’s usual chaos. It can be accessed by choosing TUTORIAL from the main menu. The facility is separate from Single Player and Multiplayer, and it does not launch automatically when creating a prisoner.
The previous intro cinematic has been removed. Deena now has new voice work and dialogue throughout TEC1, while her Island tutorial lines have been rewritten to match the facility’s presentation.
Island tutorials have also been reorganized. Players can manually select Survival, Crafting, Metabolism, Economy, Base Building, or Hunting from the Tutorials tab. There is no required order, and objectives now focus more on the result than on completing actions in a precise sequence. Completed steps and items obtained through other activities can count toward progress.
Mutant animals and Master Hunter quests
Mutant deer, boar, and wolves now appear in specific locations. They are tougher than their standard counterparts and form the core of the Master Hunter’s new quest lines.
Players must complete one quest to unlock the Master Hunter’s Quest Book. From there, three tiers become available:
- Tier 1: mutant deer
- Tier 2: mutant boars
- Tier 3: mutant wolves
Other objectives can require specific weapons or undamaged hides, meat, antlers, and heads. Kill quality matters, so bringing back damaged materials may not satisfy the quest.
Rewards include the Hunter’s Recurve Bow, Hunter Blackhawk Crossbow, Blackline Compound Bow, multiple skinning knives, hunting equipment, animal charms, trophies, base-building recipes, and parts of the Master Hunter outfit. Physical rewards arrive at the trader depot and unlock for purchase from the Hunter. Base-building rewards instead add recipes directly to the construction menu.
Players can preview locked tiers and their rewards. Animal-kill quests can also receive credit when another prisoner kills the matching animal within 50 meters. Completed quests can no longer be abandoned by accident.
The SCUM 1.0 Anniversary Quest remains available until July 31. It begins at the Hunter trader and rewards the Carbon Hunter Ironpaw weapon skin recipe. No previous quest progress is required. Once unlocked, the skin can be crafted with a Carbon Hunter and a toolbox.
Quality-of-life changes and the Apex Predator Pack
Inventory management gets two useful options. Drop All empties clothing, containers, and vehicles into the vicinity in one action, including items inside searchable objects. Pick Up All then collects everything from the vicinity. Trader depots also receive a Pick Up All button for purchased items.
The Crafting, Cooking, and Base Building tabs have received visual updates to match the revised Inventory UI. The taunt menu now separates base-game and DLC taunts into two categories.
Official servers now support up to 80 players, up from 64. The change follows testing focused on performance and stability.
The separate Apex Predator Pack is also available alongside the update. It includes gear, weapons, charms, base-building items, character customization options, emotes, and selfie poses.
One known issue affects players using DLSS Balanced or Performance with DirectX 11. SCUM may crash while transitioning to the Island. The temporary workarounds are switching to DirectX 12, selecting another DLSS preset, or using a different upscaling method.
Patch Notes: SCUM 1.3.2.0.134527
This update focuses on wildlife behavior, hunting, menus, server tools, vehicles, weapons, quests, and a broad collection of world and character fixes.
HUNTING & ANIMALS
- Fixed a bug where animals would take too little damage from firearms.
- Fixed a bug where bears could survive being hit by an M82 rifle.
- Fixed a bug where prey would ignore predator sounds.
- Fixed a bug where herbivores would not flee from nearby predators.
- Fixed a bug where an animal carcass could become too damaged after two or more hits from a high-caliber weapon.
- Improved animal navigation balancing.
USER INTERFACE
- Fixed a bug where the SpicesMix_02 icon was low-resolution and contained blurry text.
- Fixed a bug where the crafting component list would overlap the ‘Back’ and ‘Craft/Place’ buttons when expanded.
- Fixed a bug where items added to the cart from Hunting trader subtasks could have their quantity increased but could not be reduced or removed.
- Fixed a bug where incorrect trader icons would be displayed for raincoats.
- Fixed a bug where the #DrawEnemyHealthBars command would not display Sentry health bars.
- Fixed a bug where the fishing casting strength bar would remain visible while other inventory panels were open.
- Fixed a bug where certain animal heads could not be moved through the vicinity menu.
- Fixed a bug where the radial progress bar would sometimes end at 50% when eating olives.
- Fixed a bug where clicking on the Goat Steak and Horse Steak icons in the Hunting trader’s menu wouldn’t add the items to the cart.
- Fixed a bug where the Outback Knife Sheath Twitch Drop was incorrectly listed as a crafting component for itself.
BASE BUILDING
- Fixed a bug where base building blueprints could snap or stick to invisible points instead of following the cursor smoothly during placement.
- Fixed a bug where the Zhan Ma Dao sword would float when placed on the wall-mounted weapon rack.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the server to hang when dragging the airplane door blueprint near an airplane door frame.
- Fixed a bug where gardens could not be built on fresh databases.
SERVER FUNCTIONALITY & SETTINGS
- Added a new admin command,
#ListDLCItems, which displays the blueprint names of spawnable items from a specified DLC pack.- For example, entering
#ListDLCItems WoodlandHunterPackwill list the spawnable items included in the Woodland Hunter Pack.
Note: DLC items can only be spawned in single-player if you own the corresponding pack.
- For example, entering
- Fixed a bug where restarting a server and exiting the game could bring back the old main menu.
- Fixed a bug where items would become and remain irradiated even after the radiation setting was turned off.
VEHICLES
- Fixed a bug where vehicles would sometimes fail to spawn in Sandbox mode.
- Fixed a bug where vehicles would sometimes disappear when players moved away from them in Sandbox mode.
- Fixed a bug where items stored in a tractor carriage would remain after the carriage was destroyed.
- Fixed a bug where Barba could fail to spawn on the map.
WEAPONS
- Fixed a bug where weapon magazines could clip through the character’s hands during the ‘Check ammo’ animation while prone.
- Fixed a bug where the bow firing animation would not be properly replicated to other players if fired in quick succession.
- Fixed a bug where the improvised flashlight was incorrectly placed on the M16A4 Apocalypso.
- Fixed a bug where the M70 bayonet would be incorrectly positioned on the RPK.
- Fixed a bug where arrows could be delayed and fall out of sync with the Manchu bow shooting animation.
- Fixed a bug where the Hunter85 had an inconsistent name and description.
- Fixed a bug where the aiming point on the BlackHawk crossbow would be offset.
- Fixed a bug where bows sometimes couldn’t nock arrows while leaning.
QUESTS
- Fixed a bug where players would be unable to deliver quest items to a specific mailbox in Samobor.
LEVEL DESIGN
- Fixed a bug where some terrain surfaces used incorrect properties.
- Fixed a bug where players could build chests inside of a specific rock.
- Fixed a bug where grape vines would flicker significantly.
- Fixed a bug where the quest turn-in container would be floating.
- Fixed a bug where rain would fall through the B0 bunker and persist even after a relog.
- Fixed a bug where an invisible source of water in sector C4 would allow players to drink from it or fill containers.
- Fixed a bug where a bullet hole visual effect would appear on barrels when they were hit with a melee weapon.
- Fixed a bug where some doors in a building in sector D2 were locked and unusable, while other doors worked correctly.
- Fixed a variety of level design issues, including inaccurate shadows, tree branches protruding through rocks, floating items, unnatural terrain shapes, and more.
- Fixed a bug where graffiti decals would be projected onto nearby characters.
- Fixed a bug where a wheelbarrow blueprint could be placed inside the C4 bunker.
- Fixed a bug where players were unable to bury items across a large area of sector Z2.
- Fixed a bug where the wooden beams inside the Hunter’s Grotto in sector A0 would not have any collision.
- Fixed inconsistent signage in safe zones, where some signposts displayed ‘Hunting’ and others displayed ‘Hunter’.
- Fixed a bug where the lamp mounted on the saloon in the Z3 safe zone was missing its textures entirely.
- Fixed a bug where a quest box was placed directly behind the notice board in the radiation zone.
OTHER
- Fixed a bug where Fire Rings and Bonfires were destroyed when used to light cigarettes, cigars, or spliffs.
- Fixed a bug where the Sleeveless Shirt would clip through multiple other clothing items if equipped by a buff character.
- Fixed a bug where eating while running would interrupt the player’s movement with every bite, causing them to repeatedly stop and speed up.
- Fixed a bug where players could kill one another in a safe zone by driving planes into them.
- Fixed a bug where the character’s arm would become deformed while drinking from the watering can.
- Fixed a bug where drinking from a glass would cause the player to crouch and the drinking sound effect to loop indefinitely.
- Fixed a bug where a player’s corpse could disappear after they respawned in Sandbox mode while using a DLC character.
- Fixed a bug where the Raymond Cruz DLC character’s leg textures could be missing after death.
- Fixed a bug where the male character’s arms could become deformed when wearing the SCUM shirt from the Supporter Pack DLC.
- Fixed a bug where the Woodland Poncho’s textures could stretch unnaturally when the player jumped.
- Fixed a bug where equipping both the Improvised Raincoat and Woodland Poncho would cause the character’s hair to disappear.
- Fixed a bug where the Woodland Chandelier’s destruction visual and audio effects could repeatedly trigger when teleporting nearby.
- Fixed a bug that limited players to one Woodland Hearth. You can now build as many as you need.
- Fixed a bug where certain DLC base building elements could be spawned without owning the relevant DLC.
SCUM’s Into the Wild season continues through August and September. Tell us what you think of the July update and its mutant hunts in the comments.
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