Fern 0.10 – a living day

Download: Fern-Windows.zip or Fern-Linux.zip below, unzip, run. No installer.

New in 0.10 – a living day

• Times of day: misty dawns (mist lies in the valleys), golden hours, dusk with fireflies in every biome, short moonlit nights with stars. A little sun/moon dial under the distance; sleeping takes you to the next morning. Settings: day cycle or a fixed time, length of a day.
• Weather: showers come and go — rain, glossy trail, puddles with raindrop rings, wet rocks and leaves — and a rainbow afterwards. Never in the desert, often on the moors. Without a rain jacket or poncho you get soaked. Setting: changing / always fair / always rain.
• Wildlife: deer at the edge of the woods (they bound away if you get close), songbirds on fence posts, signposts and stones, butterflies that land on flowers, bees in the lavender.
• Water: clear brooks babbling beside the trail, reeds with cattails, water lilies.
• Light and landscape: sunbeams through the tree crowns, waterfalls on the far mountains, cloud shadows racing in the gusts, erosion gullies, hummocky meadows, scree slopes, lone boulders.
• Mood: color grading per biome and time of day, soft focus while you rest.
• Performance: distant trees are baked into impostors in the background (Ultra −6 ms, Extreme −14 ms GPU), so all of this costs nothing overall.
• Fixes: the scout's head casts its shadow again; nothing floats in front of the first-person camera.

Windows may say "Windows protected your PC" because the game isn't signed: More info → Run anyway.