Once Human Version 2.2.3 went live December 10 with Online Trading, Christmas Wish and a new Battle Pass

Starry Studio pushed Version 2.2.3 for Once Human on December 10 with a roughly two-hour maintenance window starting at 4:00 PM PT. The update added Online Trading and Market Bounties, a Christmas Wish themed event and the new Visional Wheel S2 challenge Crimson Night Showdown, plus a fresh Battle Pass and Lightforge loot crate, cross-server teaming, higher territory limits, numerous gameplay optimizations, and a long list of bug fixes.

Patch Notes – Version 2.2.3

Content/Feature Updates

Permanent Servers: New Supply Point Reset

Every 1st of the month, Metas on permanent servers will have their Supply Points reset to the maximum of 20,000, allowing them to transfer items to the permanent server.

New Events

Themed Event: Christmas Wish

As snow flutters, Nalcott ushers in a heartwarming winter celebration.

Event Period: December 10, 2025, post-update – January 7, 2026 (PT)

New Event: Decorate Wish Tree

To celebrate the coming holiday, Mr. Wish has prepared a giant Wish Tree. All Metas can gather decor items and work together to decorate the tree to unlock global surprises!

1. During the event, you have a chance of obtaining event-exclusive decor items when gathering resources or defeating Deviants in Nalcott’s wilderness.

2. Go to the event island and interact with the Wish Tree to submit the decor items.

a) Decor Points: When you submit a decor item, you’ll receive Decor Points.

b) Wish Strike Tickets: You can exchange 1,000 Decor Points for a Wish Strike Ticket, which lets you participate in the Wish Strike minigame and win prizes.

3. When any Meta submits a decor item, the Wish Tree’s overall decor progress will advance.

a) Global Gifts: When the decor progress reaches 100%, all Metas across all servers will receive a special holiday gift!

b) Festive Makeover: Once the progress goal is reached, the Wish Tree will be adorned with gorgeous Christmas decorations, creating a festive atmosphere.

c) Exchange Gifts: After the Wish Tree completes its makeover, a mystery gift exchange event will begin! More information is on the way, so stay tuned!

4. Event Island: In The Way of Winter, the event island is a newly added island in the north. In all other scenarios, the event island is the heart-shaped island in the Dayton Wetlands.

The event island is a unique region where no gathering, construction, or vehicles are permitted. You can teleport between the event island and the wilderness via the Map.

Collect decor items and light up the Wish Tree alongside all Metas! Let’s usher in the holiday season together!

New Event: Wish Strike

Jingle bells, jingle bells! Christmas is here, and Mr. Wish is dressed for the holiday and ready for mischief! Grab your hammer and show them what you can do!

Event rules and description:

1. How to Participate: Submit decor items in the Decorate Wish Tree event to receive Wish Strike Tickets, which can be used to play the Wish Strike minigame.

2. Earning Points: In the minigame, you earn points by defeating alpacas with hammers. Each alpaca is worth a different number of points. The more difficult the alpaca, the more points it’ll yield when defeated.

3. Rewards: After playing the minigame, you’ll receive rewards based on your final score. The more points you earn, the more rewards you’ll receive!

* This event has a non-replacement prize pool, meaning that rewards obtained are permanently removed from the pool and cannot be won repeatedly. You can keep winning rewards until all rewards have been claimed. Select View Rewards on the Wish Strike screen to check your reward progress.

Rewards include Starchrom Crates, Butterfly’s Emissary Crates, mod parts, and other rare rewards, as well as the limited furniture item Firmarbor: Eternal Life, Christmas Deviation Selection Gift Boxes, New Year Cosmetic Selection Gift Boxes, and Wish Stones! New Year Cosmetic Selection Gift Boxes may contain Snowflake Beanie, Hide-and-Seek Headwear, Red Winter Hat, Cradle Charm: Everlasting Starlight Tree, Metallic-Scaled Gauntlets, and many other cosmetics and furniture dyes. Don’t miss out!

4. Wish Strike Items:

a) How to Obtain: You have a chance of obtaining Silver Hammers and Shimmer Hammers after defeating Deviants in the wilderness.

b) Item Effects: Silver Hammers and Shimmer Hammers have higher base damage, crit rate, and attack range than Wood Hammers. Using better hammers will help you achieve a high score more easily.

c) Drop Rules: There is a limit to the number of hammers that drop per week. When this limit is reached, no more hammers will drop. Shimmer Hammers will start dropping one week after the event starts.

New Event: Wish Check-in

Log in and check in to claim Christmas-exclusive Deviations and furniture, as well as Starchrom rewards! Call your friends and achieve your wishes together!

New Event: Star of Friendship

Link your account to claim the Star of Friendship and never game alone again!

Event Period: December 10, 2025 – February 23, 2026 (PT)

Come join the Star of Friendship event! Link with a friend, and go to Event > Gather Friends > Star of Friendship to claim the limited Star of Friendship icon!

Visional Wheel S2: Lunar Revelry Updates

New Challenge Event: Crimson Night Showdown

The crimson moon rises once more, enveloping Nalcott with even greater power. Having previously proved their strength, Metas must now race to complete a more formidable challenge where red moonlight and dark shadows meet.

Event Period: December 11 – January 22 (server time)

Event rules and description:

1. This event features three dungeons: Red Vulture Combat Zone, Mystic Altar, and Hounding Grounds. Each dungeon includes 10 floors. You must defeat all enemies in the dungeon to complete it. Enemies grow stronger and more aggressive with each floor. This is the ultimate trial of your strength!

2. Red Vulture Combat Zone will be unlocked after the December 10 (PT) update. One remaining dungeon will be unlocked each week thereafter.

3. When the third dungeon is unlocked, leaderboards for each dungeon will also become available. Players will be ranked based on their fastest dungeon completion times, and ranking rewards will be issued when the event ends.

Lunacy Adjustments

1. During a Lunar Revelry event, players will still be automatically inflicted with Lunacy. However, Lunacy can be permanently cured by using a Lunacy Suppressant.

2. If you want to be afflicted with Lunacy again, you must use a Lunacy Stimulant.

3. The Lunacy Stimulant and Lunacy Suppressant formulas will be available in the Visional Shop for convenient purchase.

4. The amounts and types of materials required to craft Lunacy Stimulants and Lunacy Suppressants will be reduced.

For more information, refer to the Blood Moon dev blog:

PvP Permanent Server Settlement

After this update, the PvP Permanent Server Settlement event will launch for PvP permanent servers. Metas on these servers can sign up for other scenario servers, after which they can claim rewards from the event screen.

For more information, refer to the permanent server dev blog:

Wish Machine Time-Limited Prize Pools Now Open

After the update on December 17, 4:30 PM (PT), the following new Wish Machine prize pools will be available for 3 weeks:

Ignis Dissolution: Includes the Legendary weapon blueprint: Boom! Boom!

Fire Master: Includes the Legendary gear blueprints: Hardy Gloves, Shelterer Hood, Shelterer Shoes, and Shelterer Mask.

Herald of Courage: Includes the Legendary blueprint: The Last Valour.

New Shop Arrivals

New Battle Pass: Eclipse of Mercy

“The pain that torments you will soon fade, and your mind will drift into eternal rest within this silence.”

Available: After the update on December 10 (PT)

A new Battle Pass theme is here, including the Eclipse of Mercy fashion set (Epic), Neural Pulse – MPS5 weapon skin (Epic), and Serene Sanatorium furniture formula series (Rare)…

Even the smallest healing is a miracle of life. Lots of cosmetics await!

• 10% off the Luxurious Edition for a limited time only!

Purchase the Luxurious Edition to upgrade the Battle Pass to Lv. 15 instantly and earn exclusive rewards, including the Starlight Keepsake territory collectible (Epic Collection), Divine Healing Cradle skin (Epic), and Eclipse of Mercy avatar frame and namecard.

Lightforge Loot Crate: Wishland Wonder

“Sweet scents drift through the air as the candy path guides you toward simple joy.”

Available: After the update on December 10 (PT)

Lightforge Loot Crate: Wishland Wonder includes the Melody Wishland fashion set (Legendary), Romance Ban group action (Legendary), and Jingle Snowball furniture formula (Hype).

Snowmen decorate this timeless, fairytale night.

• New Lightforge Canvas custom dyes! Melody Wishland: Gifted Set will launch at a discount alongside Lightforge Loot Crate: Wishland Wonder. Grab your exclusive New Year uniform now!

Upcoming Shop Updates

“Green hopes warm the snow. May every wish come true!”

Available: December 18, 6:00 AM (server time)

The Evergreen Sprite theme pack (Epic), Holly Blessing character set (Epic), and Wish Ring Cradle skin (Epic) are coming.

“Shifting lattices and spectral light add flair to the basic industrial style.”

The Crystal Workshop: Crafting facility cosmetic pack (Epic) is coming, featuring an industrial aesthetic with crystal lattices.

“Quick combos, wild ideas! Push your playstyle to new heights.”

The Rare weapon skins Dimensional Breach – SKS, Dimensional Breach – PDW90, and Dimensional Breach – G17, along with the Dimensional Breach weapon gift box (Rare), will be available for a limited time. Give your go-to weapons a stylish upgrade!

Wish Cosmetic Collection

“Make a purchase and have your wishes come true!”

Available: After the update on December 10 (PT)

The New Year market is here, featuring lots of limited-time cosmetics. Collect them to win prizes!

• Collect the specified New Year cosmetics to claim a New Year’s Lucky Gift containing guaranteed Colorful Badges and Lightforge Relics, plus a 30% chance to obtain one of the following: Lightforge Ingot, Meta Pass 1-Day Trial, or Prismatic Laser Dye.

• For every 5 New Year’s Lucky Gifts you open, you’ll receive at least 1 Lightforge Ingot.

RaidZone content updates

Optimizations – RaidZone Mode

Gathering

1. Gathering Node Mechanic Adjustments and Optimizations

We’ve removed some gathering nodes that interfere with PvP or cause visual clutter, while ensuring that farming is minimally affected:

a) More Realistic Environments: Removed unnecessary Stone, Sulfur, Shellfish, and Kelp nodes along the coastline, improving the appearance and realism of coastal environments.

b) Simplified Nodes: Removed Tin Ore nodes that would occasionally appear on the map.

c) Reduced Plant Clutter and Seed Compensation:

i. Removed plants that may cause visual interference from the map, including Scarlet Calamus, Sage, Bellflower, Honeysuckle, Coneflower, Yellow Lotus, and Saffron.

ii. For Farming Metas Only: To protect the farming experience, seeds for the above plants are now sold by merchants in all neutral settlements. You can continue to grow them in your territory.

d) Optimized Resource Guidance:

i. All fruit and edible plants have been retained.

ii. Increased the model size of Aloe Vera in the wilderness, making them more conspicuous. This should make it easier for you to find them and acquire Plant Fiber, an important survival material.

2. Regional Resource Re-allocation

We’ve adjusted the distribution of ores and plants in RaidZone to ensure a better match with their environments, while creating differentiation between regions.

Plains Region (lower right of map, near the new player spawn area):

Most: Copper, Aloe Vera

Average: Stone, Sulfur

Least: Iron, Tungsten

Forest Region (lower left of map):

Most: Iron, Tungsten

Average: Copper, Aloe Vera

Least: Stone, Sulfur

Desert Region (top of map):

Most: Stone, Sulfur

Average: Iron, Tungsten

Least: Copper, Aloe Vera

Upgraded Meteor Summoner

The Meteor Summoner can now blow up ore deposits! If you destroy an ore deposit when driving the Meteor Summoner, it’ll even yield additional resources!

Territory Construction

1. Optimized trap facilities.

a) We’ve noticed that the Shotgun Turret has a high barrier to entry in actual use, so we’ve made the following adjustments to improve its usability:

i. More Ways to Obtain: Added more ways to obtain the Shotgun Turret. You’ll have a chance of obtaining a Shotgun Turret when searching trash cans, storage crates, and defeating Deviants in the wilderness.

ii. Reduced Build Cost: Optimized the Shotgun Turret formula. It no longer requires Wood or Memory Chips, and its Steel Ingot cost has been reduced from 60 to 40. However, it now requires Military Parts to build.

iii. Improved Mechanics: The Shotgun Turret no longer needs electricity to operate. Just place it, and it’ll start working. This should make it easier to set up your territory’s defenses.

b) The Rifle Turret no longer requires Auto Turret Controllers to repair, reducing its overall repair cost.

c) Improved the Flamethrower’s combat performance, increasing its direct damage by 4 points.

d) Reduced the Flamethrower’s build cost. Its Steel Ingot cost has been reduced from 40 to 20. This should make it easier to set up your territory’s defenses.

e) The Flamethrower Fuel Canister can now be crafted at a Primary Supplies Workbench, making it easier to access in the early game.

2. Optimized the load-bearing issue with doors and windows. Doors and windows no longer cost any load-bearing coefficient.

Bug Fixes – RaidZone Mode

Wilderness

Fixed an issue with the pick-up animation.

Custom Server Updates

Added Endless Dream scenarios with the Lunar Revelry Visional tag.

Optimization – All Modes

Deviation: Survive, Capture, Preserve

1. Changed the layout of Deviation information panels, adding Skill Rating and other details. The highly requested filter function is also in development, so stay tuned!

2. Reduced the frequency at which By-the-Wind would spawn in the wilderness in some situations.

3. Following your feedback, we’ve made the following balance adjustments to the damage of some Deviations and Gyms:

a) Currently, the difficulty of acquiring healing items early on means that the Fresh Green and Hot Spring Gyms are overly difficult. This update will reduce the damage dealt by the sidekick Deviations in these gyms.

b) Significantly increased the strength of Dr. Teddy’s Psi Skill. Each heal amount has been increased from 161% to 180% of Attack, and the number of heals has been increased from 3 to 6.

c) Corrected the damage of Snow Globe’s Psi Skill. Each hit now deals 160% of Attack as damage.

d) Changed the duration of Rebecca’s Psi Skill to 9 seconds.

e) Fixed an issue where the area of effect of the meteor in Invincible Sun’s Psi Skill was too small.

We will monitor the impact of these balance adjustments to assess if further changes are necessary. To ensure a smooth transition, we will issue Binding Grenade V ×5, Skill Mutagen – Rapid Charge ×3, Skill Mutagen – Psi Ray ×3, Skill Mutagen – Blink Strike ×3, Skill Mutagen – Group Elemental Overload ×3, and Skill Mutagen – Group Physical Enhancement ×3 to all Metas in Deviation: Survive, Capture, Preserve servers after this update.

4. Adjusted the completion conditions for tasks related to the Deviation League in the Main Story Task.

Shop

1. Optimized some female character animations.

2. Optimized the default pose of male characters in the interface.

Camera

To help you capture stunning shots of the scenery and your adventures in Nalcott, we’ve upgraded the Camera system as follows:

1. Hide Deviants: While in Camera mode, you can now choose to hide Deviants, allowing you to frame a perfect shot without their interference.

2. Increased Camera Freedom: Increased the maximum zoom-out distance and height adjustment range. You can now achieve a wider field of view and more varied composition angles, enabling you to capture more exciting shots.

3. Cloud Gallery Optimizations: Optimized the interface of the cloud gallery. The gallery is now more visually appealing and user-friendly, making it easier to review and manage your precious memories.

4. Improved Interactions: We’ve implemented targeted optimizations for issues with illogical interaction prompts. Interactions should now be more intuitive, improving the general gameplay experience.

Territory Construction

1.Non-RaidZone only: Increased the territory structure limit from 700 to 1,400. Increased the territory furniture limit from 250 to 900.

2. Following your feedback, this update will optimize the basic controls of Construction mode as follows:

a) When copying a structure or facility, its skin and wallpaper will also be copied, so you won’t have to reapply them.

b) The system will now remember and automatically apply your last chosen skin, even if you switch to a different type of structure. This makes construction more convenient.

c) When upgrading a structure’s material or level, its original skin and wallpaper will no longer be removed.

d) If a structure appears worn down due to low Durability, removing its skin or wallpaper will now retain its worn-down appearance, matching its actual Durability value.

e) The visual effect of selecting a structure has been changed from a blue fill to a green outline, providing clearer visual feedback.

f) Hovering on a structure will no longer hide its skin or wallpaper, ensuring visual consistency.

g) Optimized the icon style of the Foundation category in the Construction menu, making it clearer and easier to identify.

3. Non-RaidZone only: Changed the Building Master Memetic to only increase the Max Durability of all structures by 50%. Changed the Stone Structures: Intense Defense Memetic to only increase the Max Durability of stone structures by 150%. If you’ve already activated these two Memetics, you’ll receive an item that lets you reset your Memetic build.

Social

Optimized the friend invitation feature. You can now invite a friend to join your team from their namecard.

Dream Zone Invasion

In response to your feedback, we’re increasing the rewards granted by the Dream Zone Invasion game mode:

1. Greatly increased the amount of Reality Fragments obtained.

2. Increased the chance of obtaining mods. Added a chance to obtain two mod crates at once on higher difficulties.

Tasks

Changed the locations of some side story task NPCs in the Deviation: Survive, Capture, Preserve scenario.

Feedback

We’ve added an AI assistant to the Co-Dev Feedback Platform. Designed to respond promptly to your suggestions and feedback, the AI assistant has been trained on popular suggestions and developer responses. If you submit a suggestion that it’s familiar with, the AI assistant will provide our latest progress on that issue. Any feedback you submit to the AI assistant will also be recorded and forwarded to our team, just like standard feedback. We recommend using the AI assistant to submit suggestions and feedback from now on.

To help you submit feedback and obtain information more easily, the AI assistant will suggest optimization details based on your feedback. You can then select a specific item to check the latest progress on that optimization.

NOTE: The AI assistant is only equipped to provide details and progress of optimizations related to its suggestions. To check on bug fix progress, please refer to our bug fix announcements.

Other

1. Added descriptions of scenario features to the Deviation: Survive, Capture, Preserve scenario introduction screen.

2. Optimized the character and camera movement controls when using a controller on PC. We’ve also added two new sensitivity curve options to the Controller settings: Linear (input directly matches aiming speed) and Dynamic (starts fast then slows, following an inverted S-curve).

Bug Fixes – All Modes

Wilderness

Fixed an issue where Public Thermal Towers sometimes could not summon a Chaosweaver.

Shop

Fixed an issue where the bullet trajectory visual effect of the Abyssal Annihilation – SKS skin was not applied.

Dungeons

Fixed an issue where the game sometimes crashed upon entering a Securement Silo.

Territory Construction

1. Fixed an issue where the player could not interact with Storage Crates in very small rooms.

2. Fixed an issue where interaction prompts for territory structures were not updated in a timely manner.

3. Fixed an issue where 1/4 Roof 01 and 1/4 Roof 02 of certain materials could not be aligned correctly.

Backpack

Fixed an issue with conflicting inputs in the Backpack when using a controller on PC.

Combat

Non-RaidZone only: Fixed an attribute calculation issue that gave weapons a crit rate buff by mistake.

Version 2.2.3 bundled a broad slate of seasonal events, economy features and construction improvements aimed at both social play and territory building. Players who enjoy the new challenge dungeons or the Christmas Wish activities now have cross-server teaming, expanded toolbox features and a new set of rewards to chase.

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Once Human

Developed by Starry Studio

Once Human is a multiplayer open-world survival game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.

• Genre: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure
• Platforms: Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS
• Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
• Release: 2024-07-09
• Publisher: Starry Studio
• Age Rating: ESRB T
• IGDB Rating: 65.4/100

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