SCUM’s August Update Is Live With Underground Facilities and Mutant Bears
Version 1.3.3.0.144566 also reworks cooking, adds Food Effects, and penalizes repeated deaths with a temporary status.
SCUM‘s Into the Wild August Update is live, adding underground TEC1 Research Facilities, mutant bears, new Master Hunter quests, and a collection of survival-system changes in version 1.3.3.0.144566. Cooking is faster, 15 new Heatless recipes can be prepared without equipment, and repeated deaths now apply the Cloning Sickness condition.
Gamepires detailed the full update in its official Steam announcement. The live build follows the earlier August 24 update preview, which outlined the new facilities and cooking systems.
The Stalker Outfit Pack is also available separately. It contains a complete outfit set and a bone tomahawk.
TEC1 Research Facilities take the hunt underground
Three converted underground bunker entrances now lead to TEC1 Research Facilities hidden beneath the Island. Each location uses the same layout and challenge, but prisoners will need a Research Facility Keycard to open the door.
Keycards can come from certain Master Hunter quests or rare loot elsewhere on the Island. They expire after a limited period and are consumed on use. A single card is enough for an entire group, although the entrance locks once a run begins and stays closed until the Facility resets.
Every run starts a ten-minute purge. The first containment-area door opens for 30 seconds, so the group must be ready to move before the countdown begins. Anyone left behind after the door closes cannot enter that area.
Inside, mutant bears will not flee. They can flank prisoners, react to careless gunfire, and change positions between runs. Reaching the deepest section provides access to rare medical and scientific loot, which spawns when the purge begins and refreshes for every run. Groups carrying several Keycards can run the Facility repeatedly and receive a fresh loot set each time.
Mutant bears add new Master Hunter objectives
Mutant bears also appear at specific locations across the Island. Hunters Grotto now has a map showing known sightings, giving the Master Hunter questline a dangerous new target.
The questline includes several new Tier 3 hunts focused on mutant wildlife. Completing the required objectives awards a Research Facility Keycard and unlocks Apex Hunt, a Tier 4 mission that sends players into a Facility to eliminate every mutant bear inside.
New hunt rewards include a weapon charm, a mounted skull trophy, and Master Hunter headgear.
Cooking gets faster and more important
SCUM‘s metabolism system now gives food choices more weight. Digestion affects Energy Burn Rate, while nutrient levels can provide buffs or apply debuffs tied to exhaustion, healing, sickness, and movement.
The new Hands option in the Cooking menu allows prisoners to prepare food without equipment. Heatless recipes include 10 salads—Cheese Mixed Salad, Cucumber Salad, Fish Salad, Fruit Salad, Lettuce Salad, Mixed Salad, Sauerkraut Salad, Tomato Salad, Waldorf Salad, and Improvised Salad—along with five sandwiches: Tuna Sandwich, Bean Sandwich, Cheese Sandwich, Spon™ Sandwich, and Improvised Sandwich.
Hands-prepared meals count as cooked food and provide the same digestion benefits as meals made on a stove. Heatless recipes cannot continue into overtime after they finish.
Existing food and drink recipes now cook faster, except for the four smoked recipes, which keep their previous times. Depending on the recipe and Cooking skill, the reductions range from approximately 25% to 69%. Timers now show real-world time instead of in-game time.
| Cooking Skill | Grilled Veggie | Cabbage Rolls and Gumbo |
|---|---|---|
| No Skill | 0:19 to 0:13 | 37:30 to 13:01 |
| Basic | 0:16 to 0:10 | 32:49 to 10:51 |
| Medium | 0:14 to 0:08 | 28:08 to 8:41 |
| Advanced | 0:12 to 0:07 | 23:26 to 7:36 |
| Above Advanced | 0:09 to 0:06 | 18:45 to 6:31 |
Digesting food now temporarily increases the prisoner’s Energy Burn Rate. Cooked food has the lowest increase at 5%, while canned and processed food reaches 18%. Fresh fruit, vegetables, mushrooms, plants, insects, and nuts add 7.5%; MREs and eggs add 8%; raw fish adds 10%; butter, animal fat, and black pepper add 13%; and crackers, mayonnaise, ketchup, ground coffee, cream, yeast, CandyBob, and CandyCorn add 15%.
When several foods with different values are digesting at once, the Energy Burn Rate UI displays the median increase. Raw meat, medications, and snowballs do not add to the digestion burn rate, although raw meat and some unprocessed foods can build Food Repulsion. Filling that bar causes the prisoner to vomit.
Healthy nutrient levels can now activate paired effects:
- Vigor reduces exhaustion gain and stamina loss, while Lethargy increases both. Protein, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, Vitamin B2, and Vitamin B5 affect these effects.
- Mending increases healing speed and resistance to bleeding, while Erosion reduces both and causes greater blood loss from injuries. Vitamin C, zinc, Vitamin B5, copper, and manganese affect them.
- Resilience improves resistance to sickness by strengthening the immune system, while Run Down weakens that resistance. Vitamin C, Vitamin D, zinc, and selenium affect these effects.
- Stability increases movement speed while limping, while Instability reduces it further. Vitamin C, Vitamin K, calcium, phosphorus, and copper affect them.
Cloning Sickness makes repeated respawns more costly
Respawning after death now applies Cloning Sickness, regardless of how the prisoner died. The condition starts at C1 and becomes more severe if another death occurs before recovery finishes.
At C1, health, energy, water, vitamin levels, and Fame Point gains are temporarily reduced by 10%. Each additional severity level adds another 10% reduction, reaching 40% at C4. Higher levels can also cause headaches and further affect performance, exertion, and immunity.
| Severity | Recovery begins after | Recovery duration |
|---|---|---|
| C1 | 10 minutes | 5 minutes |
| C2 | 15 minutes | 7.5 minutes |
| C3 | 20 minutes | 10 minutes |
| C4 | 30 minutes | 15 minutes |
Recovery begins automatically, with more severe cases taking longer to clear. Phoenix Tears immediately move Cloning Sickness into recovery, and using them after recovery has started cuts the remaining time by 50%.
Recovery cannot begin while Acute Radiation Sickness, Infection, or Sepsis is active. Those conditions must be treated first. Cloning Sickness is active on Official Servers and enabled by default on private servers, where owners can turn it off.
SCUM 1.3.3.0.144566 Patch Notes
The August build also contains fixes for crashes, exploits, server behavior, weapons, vehicles, inventory, clothing, quests, base building, visuals, and several Island locations. The complete changelog follows.
CRASHES & EXPLOITS
- Fixed a crash that could occur when another player used voice chat near your character.
- Fixed a crash that could after interacting with quest interactables after relog
- Fixed an exploit that allowed players to repeatedly fill blueprints by manipulating nearby ground items using vehicles, enabling rapid skill progression.
- Fixed an exploit that could cause chests to become stuck in the player’s hands, allowing multiple chests to be carried.
- Fixed an exploit that allowed players to destroy vehicles in Safe Zones using flamethrowers and gas tanks.
SERVER FUNCTIONALITY
- Fixed an issue where players would be unable to connect when they had a large number of active quests across multiple characters.
- Fixed an issue where the server would incorrectly detect a hang and create a crash folder, despite recovering and completing startup successfully.
- Fixed an issue where small garage doors remained lockable when the ‘Garage Door Lockability’ setting was disabled.
NEW SERVER & CUSTOM ZONE SETTINGS
CLONING SICKNESS
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Cloning Sickness Enabled
[Respawn] -> RESPAWN
scum.CloningSicknessEnabled=TrueEnables or disables the existing Cloning Sickness system.
Default: True
RESEARCH FACILITY KEYCARDS
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Maximum Research Facility Keycards
[World] -> BUNKERS
scum.MaxAllowedApexFacilityKeycards=4Controls the total number of Research Facility Keycards that can be found across Police Stations and Radiation Zones.
Default: 4
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Maximum Keycards in Police Stations
[World] -> BUNKERS
scum.MaxAllowedApexFacilityKeycards_PoliceStation=3Controls how many Research Facility Keycards can be found in Police Stations.
Default: 3
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Maximum Keycards in Radiation Zones
[World] -> BUNKERS
scum.MaxAllowedApexFacilityKeycards_RadiationZone=1Controls how many Research Facility Keycards can be found in Radiation Zones.
Default: 1
CUSTOM ZONE SETTING
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Vehicle Damage from Unowned Explosions
[Custom Zones] -> VEHICLEDamage dealt to vehicles by explosion of no-owner items
Controls the damage dealt to vehicles by explosions caused by items without an owner inside the Custom Zone.
Default:
Global configuration: Allow
Outpost configuration: Block
WEAPONS
- Fixed an issue where weapons could be fired outside of Combat Mode by holding the left mouse button during a reload.
- Fixed incorrect alternative ADS offsets when using scopes for multiple weapons: VHS-2, M16A1, MK18, SVD, Kar98k, Mosin Nagant, Improvised Rifle, Hunter 85, Carbon Hunter, AS Val, VSS, AKS-74U, all AK-47 variants, AK15, AWM and AWP.
- Fixed incorrect reticle offsets while aiming down sights for multiple weapons: Carbon Hunter, Hunter 85, SCAR-L, SKS, Kar98k, AWP and AWM.
- Fixed an issue where the M1 Garand displayed a black border when aiming down sights through a scope.
- Fixed an issue where the camera could clip through the M1 Garand’s stock while firing in alternative ADS through the M1 scope.
- Fixed an issue where the SKS clip remained visible in the weapon chamber after the reload animation had finished.
- Fixed an issue where bullets flickered during the SKS clip-loading animation.
- Increased the SKS spawn rate.
- Reduced the damage Pressure Cooker Bombs deal to sentries by a further 50%.
- Fixed an issue where the character’s hand clipped through the Hunter’s Blackhawk Crossbow during the ‘Check Ammo’ and bash animations.
- Fixed an issue where the Hunter’s Recurve Bow could not be painted.
VEHICLES
- Fixed an issue where some vehicles appeared on the map when using the ‘#showvehicleinfo’ command but were missing from their marked locations.
- Fixed an issue where the Car Jack disappeared from the vicinity after servicing a vehicle.
- Fixed an issue where mounting a SUP while holding a paddle briefly caused the character to enter a T-pose.
USER INTERFACE, INVENTORY & TRADERS
- Fixed an issue where the ‘Cut’ and ‘Search’ actions would not work unless the camera was angled down from above the character.
- Fixed an issue where players could interact with base-building storage elements while aiming at them, even when no interaction prompt was displayed.
- Fixed an issue where items inside a loot container could not be taken after moving away from the original examination point.
- Fixed an issue where containers could not be searched.
- Fixed an issue where the player’s ‘Hands’ slot became locked after picking up an item with no remaining uses.
- Fixed an issue where the event duration timer appeared in unrelated inventory tabs.
- Fixed an issue where the ‘Check Time’ action displayed the wrong message while the character was moving.
- Fixed an issue where the Milk icon was upside down.
- Fixed an issue where incorrect descriptions appeared in the ‘Metabolism’ tab.
- Fixed an issue where using certain fonts in a character’s name could cause the name to appear invisible on the map.
- Fixed an issue where capitalization-only changes to the names of vehicles, tombstones, signposts and other objects were not saved.
- Fixed missing translations for base-building element names and hints in the Chinese-language context menus.
- Grouped the four Master Hunter clothing items into a dedicated Master Hunter Gear category under Clothes > Civilian in trader menus.
- Fixed an issue where animal skins were labeled as a ‘Boar Leg’ in the trader’s Sell menu.
- Fixed an issue where the ‘Submit’ button did not work when renewing a Gold Card.
- Fixed an issue where the age slider appeared in the Doctor menu for Apex characters despite their age being fixed.
- Fixed an issue where an Apex character’s hair color was not saved after their first relog.
CLOTHING & ITEMS
- Fixed an issue that caused some clothing to appear silver or metallic.
- Fixed an issue where multiple Woodland Ponchos could be equipped simultaneously.
- Fixed an issue where holsters floated beside the character when no supporting belt or strap was equipped.
- Fixed an issue where equipping Tactical Gloves with the Trucker Jacket caused the character’s wrists to deform.
- Fixed an issue where the Police Sweater occupied an incorrect amount of inventory space.
- Fixed an issue where the CD Player had the same description as the Air Pump.
- Fixed an issue where sunflowers could not be interacted with.
GAMEPLAY & QUESTS
- Fixed an issue where the bait feeder could be filled and activated while being carried in the player’s hands.
- Fixed an issue where animals could sometimes freeze in place when attacked.
- Fixed an issue where eating raw pasta rapidly filled the player’s stomach with water, causing it to rupture.
- Fixed an issue where the dropship did not appear alongside the cargo drop.
- Fixed an issue where green Bunker lockers used loot presets intended for locked lockers despite not requiring lockpicking.
- Fixed an issue where quests configured to provide multiple reward items failed to grant all of those items upon completion.
BASE BUILDING
- Fixed an issue where mutant animal heads could be used in base-building blueprints that required normal animal heads.
- Fixed an issue where moving through an unfinished base-building blueprint could prevent players from jumping onto an adjacent completed element.
- Fixed an issue where players could not rotate base-building floors using the mouse wheel.
AUDIO & VISUALS
- Fixed an issue where no rowing sound played while using the Dinghy.
- Fixed an issue where the character animation was misaligned while manually opening Abandoned Bunker doors.
- Fixed an issue where horses slid while getting up from a lying animation.
- Fixed an issue where the character’s elbow visibly popped out of place while steering a motorbike left or right.
- Fixed an issue where character shadows remained stationary in first-person mode.
WORLD & LEVEL DESIGN
- Fixed an issue where driving over a specific spot at Samobor’s southern entrance could destroy the player’s vehicle.
- Fixed an issue where the fence door in Sector B2 had an excessively large interaction range, preventing players from interacting with the nearby ladder.
- Fixed an issue where players could clip into docks while swimming near them.
- Fixed an issue where invisible collisions blocked multiple doors in the C4 Abandoned Bunker.
- Fixed a wall in the Sanitarium POI that had no collision.
- Fixed an issue where players could not get wet or drive a boat in a specific location in Sector C4.
- Fixed an issue where a set of doors in the Krško POI could be interacted with when they should not have been.
- Fixed incorrect textures on the A1 Bunker doors.
- Fixed transparent sections on the radio tower beams in the Krško POI.
- Fixed an issue where bright triangular shapes appeared on the surface of the water in Sector D0.
- Fixed an issue where rain fell through the roof of a building in part of the Radiation Zone.
- Fixed trees growing out of rocks in various locations.
- Fixed bushes clipping through walls in multiple locations.
- Fixed misplaced fences clipping through rocks in multiple locations.
- Fixed floating streetlights, lamps, tires and containers in multiple locations.
- Removed a mushroom floating in the sky above Sector B2.
- Fixed an old spotlight overlapping the Hunters Grotto sign in Trader Zones.
- Fixed low-resolution textures on bags of concrete.
Into the Wild will continue in September, giving prisoners another month of hunting, cooking, and survival content to look forward to. Tell us what you think of the August Update in the comments, and follow us on X, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, Steam, and Telegram.
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