DREDGE (Switch): all the updates (latest: Ver. 1.5.1 / Next: Ver. 1.5.2)

On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various updates for DREDGE on Nintendo Switch (originally released on March 30th 2023 in North America, Europe, and Japan)!

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DREDGE – Ver. 1.5.2

• Release date: TBA
• Patch notes:

Adjustments

1. Exotic bait no longer requires the correct rod to be equipped in order for it to be placed. You’ll still need the correct rod to catch whatever shows up though!
2. The Foreman will make it clearer that you can talk to him if you run out of ooze patches to siphon up.
3. Increased the size of the ooze markers on the map.
4. Added a map marker for the rig’s location before you visit it.
5. Added 1-2 nautiloids to each of their spawn locations.

Fixes

1. Fixed an item duplication bug.
2. The portal from the Aurous Anchor now visually layers better when placed on ooze.
3. The Leviathan will no longer be able to consume players as they’re in the process of docking at the rig.
4. Fixed an issue where one patch of ooze couldn’t be fully cleared in Twisted Strand under certain conditions.
5. Fixed an issue where players could mark bait spots on their map, causing a number of flow-on issues with the map and spyglass.
6. A handful of small text fixes.

DREDGE – Ver. 1.5.1

• Release date: August 15th 2024 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

For owners of The Iron Rig:

Features

The Iron Rig paid DLC – a new constructable destination visitable at any time in your playthrough, with new:

• Fish
• Pursuits
• Equipment
• Achievements
• Enhanced Abilities
• Consumable items
• …and more!

For all players:

Features

• Added some new apparitions that can rarely be seen through the fog.
• Added the ability to select which Crab Pot & Bait type is being deployed.
• Added a custom background when using a late-game ability to harvest fish.
• Added a custom background to most shore caches.
• Added a new shipwreck to Stellar Basin
• Added Polish language.
• Added new themes for the title screen. These are unlocked by owning their respective DLC, and can be selected via a new setting in the “General” section.
  • The “Complete Edition” theme requires The Pale Reach, The Iron Rig, and Blackstone Key DLCs.

Adjustments

• Increased the size of Storage from 72 to 99 cells.
• Increased the maximum number of map markers from 50 to 100.
• Reduced maximum panic-reducing effect of lights by 10%
• Made the Game Over screen look nicer.
• Moved a small number of fishing and dredging spots around.
• Added a paint bucket icon to The Painter in Little Marrow.
• Infection can now spread even if your inventory is open.
  • Infection can now [REDACTED]
• When new abilities are unlocked, they’re now highlighted on the radial ability wheel until selected.
• Your Net tab can now be viewed at some additional locations to facilitate [REDACTED].
• Added new names to the credits.
• The UI now completely disappears during cutscenes in The Iron Rig and The Pale Reach.
• Changing the language now changes which primary font is used.
  • Added a new Russian font
• Numerous performance tweaks and optimizations.

Fixes

• Fixed a longstanding issue/exploit where saving and reloading caused all fishing and dredging spots to repopulate. Sorry!
• Fixed a longstanding issue where research parts never appeared in crab pots. You’re welcome!
• Fixed an issue where, in extremely rare cases, if a save file failed to load, the game would overwrite it with a new save.
• When a [REDACTED] causes a fish to land on your deck, it now counts towards your catch count in the encyclopedia, and will show the “new species” banner if it’s a new discovery.
• Adjusted the position of the panic tutorial slightly to not overlap the panic eye animation so much.
• Trawl nets no longer function during the final cutscene, which prevents “new species discovered!” banners from popping up over the climax of the game.
• Ravens will no longer spawn if the player is currently right next to a dock.
• Random events will no longer spawn while the player is locked in dialogue with the photographer in The Pale Reach.
• The light on the Fort in Stellar Basin is now visible from further away.
• The “Perfect Packing” achievement wasn’t unlocking in some scenarios.
• The “debt repayment” bar at Greater Marrow wasn’t respecting custom colour choices.
• Placing map markers should always play a SFX now.
• The creaking traps in Twisted Strand are no longer audible from halfway across the map.
• Fixed an issue where text could get stuck on screen if it was very short, and Text Speed was set to Fast. Mostly affected Korean and Chinese languages.
• When playing with a cursor, you can no longer click on the Cargo tab while using the Spyglass.
• Quest grids that require players to make a decision about whether to pick up or leave an item no longer show a (non-functional) “Return to town” prompt.
• Players can no longer pick up an item from some quest grids and then interact with dialogs with the item still on their cursor.
• Removed a couple of bushes that were floating in the sky above Twisted Strand. Apologies to the folks who thought this was us hinting at a secret zone in the clouds!
• Adjusted a few pieces of terrain to prevent the hull of your boat from clipping through.
• The Travelling Merchant’s bunting has been re-added.
• Rain no longer looks weird when climbing the steps to the Ancient Lighthouse.
• The Photographer’s camera case is no longer able to be discarded via the temporary storage tray beneath the fishing minigame.
• Hundreds of text and localization fixes.

DREDGE – Ver. 1.4.2

• Release date: December 18th 2023 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

Adjustments

• Various optimizations to reduce the game’s memory usage and improve load times.
• Reduced the volume of the Aurous Anchor’s portal idle SFX.

Fixes

• The grids at the ice shards in The Pale Reach now only accept ice axes.
• Fixed an issue where some lines of text (at The Airman, and The Collector) would hang when run in some languages (Japanese, Chinese, Korean) with Text Speed set to “Fast”.
  • We’re aware of a few more instances of this occurring in some side quests, specifically when refusing to pick up quest items from NPCs. To avoid this, you can either:
  • • Reload, and do not refuse the item.
    • Change your text speed to “Normal”.
• Added missing ambient audio to the shrine in The Pale Reach.
• Fixed a typo in the line that describes the dog vomiting.

DREDGE – Ver. 1.4.0

• Release date: November 16th 2023 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

For owners of

The Pale Reach

• Added The Pale Reach area – and all the features and content it contains.
  • Players can check their map to see how to get to this new area.

For all players

• Features
  • Added a “Heartbeat SFX” setting to the Accessibility tab. This can be disabled to silence in-game SFX that feature a heartbeat. (These SFX are mostly in The Pale Reach)

• Adjustments
  • The “Quests” and “Messages” screens now have multiple tabs.
  • Increased the size of the Message Detail window, and the text size.
  • Added an “Additional Content” button to the main menu.
  • Slightly rearranged the Encyclopedia layout to show an icon representing the area that a species is found in.
  • Equipment that provides an aberration bonus will now provide it all the time (previously, damaged equipment would not add its bonus to the total).
  • Added and updated some names in the Credits.

• Fixes
  • The game should no longer silently overwrite a corrupt save when loading from the main menu. It will now show an error message directing players to customer support for recovery assistance.
  • Fixed an issue introduced in 1.3.0 that caused crashes when reading some messages in some languages.
  • Fixed an issue where the dock at Ingfell would disappear if you looked at it from the wrong angle.
  • Fixed an issue where the previous line of dialogue would show for a frame as the new line was loading in, making it look and feel as though you’d accidentally skipped over a line. This issue was more prevalent in Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages.
  • Fixed an issue where restoring settings back to default would cause the game to forget which save to use for the ‘Continue’ button.
  • Fixed an issue where the in-game time would slow or sometimes stop progressing completely for some players. This usually occurred on long-running saves of over 150 days of in-game progress.
  • Fixed an issue where some Red Snapper, Barreleye and Ghost Shark fishing spots were not repopulating correctly.
  • Fixed an issue where a couple of the wildlife encounters could very occasionally breach through islands.
  • Fixed an issue with a collision box on one of the islands in Stellar Basin.

DREDGE – Ver. 1.3.0

• Release date: September 18th 2023 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

Features

• Added Boat Customization
  • After you’ve acquired your dredge crane as part of the main story, a new character will set up shop at Little Marrow –
    The Painter! He’ll be able to make adjustments to your boat’s appearance.
  • The Painter starts with some basic options available, but you’ll be able to discover additional paint ingredients and flag designs.
• Added crab aberrations (craberrations).
• Added a new filter to the Encyclopedia to display Crabs.
• Added a number of new shipwrecks around the world.

Adjustments

• Equipment tooltips now display the previously hidden “Aberration Catch Bonus” statistic.
  • Slightly buffed some of these values on some rods.
• Rebalanced crab pots slightly.
  • All crab pots provide some aberration catch bonus, with higher tier / special pots offering a larger bonus.
  • Mouth of The Deep catch rate and duration reduced to make progressing the crab pot tech tree more meaningful.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where in very rare cases, the game would take longer than expected to save. Losing power during this time would cause save files (and in some cases, backup save files) to become corrupt.
• Added a new font which should handle Japanese characters better and prevent them from falling back to use Chinese characters in some scenarios.
• Fixed an issue where clicking on the boat upgrade purchase button too quickly could cause the screen to get stuck.
• Fixed an issue where some areas of the sea floor reported that they were 100m+ deep when they clearly were not.
• Fixed an issue where some achievements would not trigger immediately if the last thing they required was for you to catch a crab.
• Fixed an issue where players could get stuck on the map screen if it was switched to another screen while a marker was being placed.
• Fixed some small animation issues.

DREDGE – Ver. 1.2.0

• Release date: July 6th 2023 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

DREDGE – Ver. 1.1.0

• Release date: May 11th 2023 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

Features

• Added advanced map functionality
  • The map can now be zoomed and scrolled.
  • 6 different types of markers can now be added to the map.
  • A total of 50 markers can be added to the map.
  • Markers can be viewed through the Spyglass.

Adjustments

• Removed timers on timed quests (Hooded Figures, Castaway)
  • The book rewards for the Hooded Figures’ quests have been retroactively awarded to players who already exceeded these timers.
• The Travelling Merchant now always stocks 1x Research Part every day, with a 50% chance of stocking 2x.
• All basic material spots (Lumber, Scrap and Cloth) now restock over time.
• Doubled the chance of finding an aberration of trawl-only species (Aurora Jellyfish, Anchovy)
• From now on, shops will retain unique equipment sold to them, allowing them to be bought back if you change your mind.
• Made it harder to accidentally discard important items
  • Items such as equipment and quest items now take longer to discard and flash the prompt as the button is held.
  • Rot is now faster to discard.
• Moved 3 Loosejaw spawns in Stellar Basin to make them easier to locate.
• The description of a few quest items now update to let you know they can be discarded when they are no longer needed.
• The Research button now highlights itself to draw attention in some situations:
  • After players have been given their first research part.
  • After the Researcher tells players to upgrade a certain piece of equipment in Stellar Basin.
• When using a controller, the icons that prompt you to switch sides (L3/R3) now flash until they’ve been used at least once.
• Removed a destructible wall in Gale Cliffs.
• Increased the visibility of glowing quest item VFX.
• Items from the Blackstone Key DLC can now be sold for a tiny amount of money.
• The height of the spyglass has been raised slightly.
  • It should be slightly easier to locate and focus on fishing spots.

Fixes

• Fixed a rare issue where save files could become corrupted on PC, which also prevented new save files from being created. (PC only)
  • If you load the game with any save files that have already been corrupted, the game will remove these files and allow you to create a new save.
  • Players still experiencing issues with the game not loading should delete their settings file.
• Fixed a rare issue where some equipment could go missing when upgrading to a larger hull.
  • Added a fallback system to hold excess items in extreme cases.
  • Missing dredge cranes have been restored to players affected by this bug. (Consoles only, PC received this fix in v1.0.4)
• Fixed an issue where the Prey Sighted and Servant of the Shrines achievements would not unlock correctly.
• Fixed a typo where the Researcher was asking for a “Stoplight” Loosejaw.
• Fixed an issue where more than 5 trinkets could not be sold at a time to the Trader when playing in Russian.
• Fixed a few localization issues.
• Added 4 missing Playtester credits

Additionally, we’ve added a speculative fix for players who suddenly find themselves unable to use their abilities. If you’re experiencing this issue, please reach out to Team17 customer support and send us your save file so we can better identify the issue.

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Black Salt Games

How to download updates for DREDGE for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for DREDGE, 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;

OR

• 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.