Outbound (Switch, Switch 2): all the updates (latest: Ver. 1.1 – Fishing Update)

Lite_Agent 1 July 2026 Outbound, Silver Lining, Square Glade Games

On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various updates for Outbound on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2.

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Outbound – Ver. 1.1 (Fishing Update)

Release date: July 1st 2026
Patch notes:

Fishing

Added Fishing!
Added 3 Fishing Rods to obtain and craft, each required to fish in different areas.
Fishing Rods can be obtained from newly added Download terminals.
Added a new fisherman’s hut to explore in the first biome.
Added a new fisherman’s hut to explore in the second biome.
Added a new fisherman’s cabin to explore in the forth biome.
All lakes and rivers, as well as the sea now contain fish that can be caught.
Added 32 collectible fish across all four biomes.
Added 4 pieces of Junk that are sometimes caught instead of a fish, that provide additional Litter or Bottle Caps.
Added a new Journal page to track the fish you’ve caught.
Each caught fish has a star-rating between 0 and 5. The highest caught star-rating will be logged in your journal.
Caught fish can be put into Fish Tanks that you can add to your homes.
Please note that we decided fish will not serve as a source of nutrition. Instead, they are intended as collectible and decorative elements for your homes.
Added 1 more fishing-related painting to collect.

Base Building

Added 4 buildable Fish Tanks that can serve as habitats for your caught fish.
Added 6 buildable Stairs that can be used to create multi-level homes in addition to ladders (some of those need to be researched).
Added 4 buildable Doors that can be used to create rooms within your home. Doors can be opened and closed.

Bug fixes

Some improvements to RAM consumption.
Bamboo shelf counter – fixed targeting of placed items and added more slots to place.
Airplanes can be heard from further distance now.
Your dog companion now keeps proper track of not putting more items in its storage while searching for new items.

Additional notes: none
Source: Square Glade Games (Steam)

Outbound – Ver. 1.0.12

Release date: ???
Patch notes:

Features

Massively improved ladders.
It is now also possible to click to snap onto a ladder.
Ladders can also be used from above.
Setting to turn off / on look direction to change movement direction on ladders.
Ladder animations in multiplayer.
More customization options for all wooden items.

Bug fixes

Fixed that Bean Bag chair was not in the game. If you acquired the “Chill Chairs” pack from a signal tower, you now own it as a blueprint.
Materials being left in the camper van’s bio burner are no longer lost when quitting the game.
Fixed that battery assembler could only hold 4 items in output.
Fixed companion UI text overlap (in some languages).
Fixed that sometimes Cap ‘n Snaps were not storing already taken blueprints properly.
Fixed customization of Trellis Foundation with Ladder.
Fixed colliders of the rain catchers at the Sunbeam Acres Farm.
Multiplayer: Fixed making copies of customized furniture.
Multiplayer: Fixed customization of base center foundation.
Multiplayer: Dog companion can now pick up dropped items.
Multiplayer: Improved vehicle physics in multiplayer, especially with the Pathmaker.
Fixed graphics glitch at the hangar.

Balancing

Reduced cost of Power Cell from 4 Battery Components to 2.

Additional notes: none
Source: Square Glade Games (Steam)

Outbound – Ver. 1.0.10

Release date: ???
Patch notes:

Features

Added Download Voucher & Bottle Cap ‘Wallet’ (See below).
Download Vouchers and Bottle Caps do not weight anything anymore.
Download Vouchers and Bottle Caps are not deposited anymore.

Bugfixes

Overall improvement of vehicle syncing in multiplayer, among others against a specific case of sometimes vehicles slowly floating in the air over a long time.
Fixed an issue with building crop plots and other larger items on top of the metal small side tables.
Fixed an issue where the dog’s position did not follow the elevator position properly.
Fixed a number of translations.

Additional notes: none
Source: Square Glade Games (Steam)

Outbound – Ver. 1.0.9

Release date: ???
Patch notes:

Bugfixes

(Likely) fixed that sometimes there were no downloads in a download terminal, which was essentially soft-locking.
If an issue with downloads happens, you can now send your save and log files to us with a single button click, which helps us investigating.
Fixed that vehicle lights sometimes were turned on automatically at the wrong time of day.
Fixed Ring-a-Ding-Ding! achievement (collect 100 bottle caps) in multiplayer.
Fixed Cap ‘n Snaps map legend properly showing them.
Fixed that the paintings Red Ridge Airstrip and Golden Shores looked identical.
Fixed an issue with crop plots in multiplayer, sometimes preventing them from being harvested.
Translated some unlocalized texts.
Smaller multiplayer stability fixes.

Balancing

Doubled the amount of clay received from clay deposits.

Additional notes: none
Source: Square Glade Games (Steam)

Outbound – Ver. 1.0.8

Release date: ???
Patch notes:

Balancing

You can now sprint at night.
Increased sprinting speed by 15%.
Increased stamina regain (regain after empty stamina bar) by 150%.
Removed Homing Boots (temporary sprint at night), because they don’t serve a purpose anymore, now that you can sprint at night.
Changed Sawmill recipes as follows:
Recipe Everwood Plank changed from requiring 2 Everwood to now requiring only 1 (ratio 1:1).
Recipe Silverbark Plank changed from requiring 2 Silverbark Wood to now requiring only 1 (ratio 1:1).
Recipe Redwood Plank changed from requiring 2 Redwood to now requiring only 1 (ratio 1:1).
Recipe Blossomwood Plank changed from requiring 2 Blossomwood to now requiring only 1 (ratio 1:1).
Map 1: Bridge at the Sunbeam Acres Farm now only requires 20 Everwood Planks to repair, instead of 30.
Increased the amount of Everwood lumber and Fiber in Map 1.
Increased the amount of Durafiber in Map 2.
Doubled the amount of Red Ore in Map 3.

Improvements

Added sorting and text search to Backpack inventory.
Map: Improved legend, added counters of collected / interacted things. Especially handy to check how many Signal Towers / Terminals are left on a map.
Connections between maps are now always uncovered by default.
Connections between maps have clearer map icons now.
Multiplayer highlighting / pinging can now be remapped (default: middle mouse button / left stick press).
Dog companion now always spawns next to you when loading a game. This helps with dogs that are stuck (we will also work on preventing that).
Added a setting to turn off auto-centering of the third-person vehicle camera.

Bugfixes

Fixed dog companion always barking when leaving the vehicle.
Fixed Cap ‘n Snaps not showing on map after a transition between biomes.

Additional notes: none
Source: Square Glade Games (Steam)

Outbound – Ver. 1.0.6

Release date: ???
Patch notes:

Added manual light control over vehicle lights (see below).
Added filter and search functionality to storage (see below).
Controller: When selecting a save game, you can just press (A) to jump to the load button, without needing to go through the whole list of save games anymore.
Fixed that vehicles sometimes float when a workstation was placed on a specific spot.
After interacting with all signal towers in a biome, the frequency of signals to appear is much higher now.
Fixed the second ladder at the windmill (was very difficult to use).
Fixed dog companion material depositing could lead to a buggy state of the storage UI.
Fixed flash light icon showing while driving.
Fixed flash light being usable while in a UI.
Multiplayer: Fixed a bug that bee hives or water catchers sometimes became unusable.

Additional notes: none
Source: Square Glade Games (Steam)

Outbound – Ver. 1.0.5

Release date: ???
Patch notes:

Fixed elevators sometimes being bugged in multiplayer.
Prevent immediate fall damage when joining a game.
When encountering a multiplayer error, the UI now also shows an error code. If you are encountering a multiplayer error, please include that code in your report.
Dog companion UI now shows the correct error text when depositing materials is not possible (“nothing to deposit” instead “out of range”).
Added automatic material deposit for dog companion (see below).

Additional notes: none
Source: Square Glade Games (Steam)

How to download updates for Outbound on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2?

To download the updates for Outbound, you have three options:

let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.

To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.