• Butchers now cost 2,000, and your credits are capped by what your buildings can hold. Over the cap, the meat is wasted.
• New building, the Pink Slime Vat: cheap storage for 3,000 more.
• The Butcher upgrades to the Rendering Butcher, which gets 65 credits a chunk instead of 50.
• New unit, the Spurter Gland: a flier that dives into a spurter and makes it spurt faster for two minutes. On a sick spurter it cures it instead.
• Spurters splatter their chunks in a round spray instead of a square, faster and more of them.
• The AI keeps up: it builds vats before it fills up, upgrades its safest Butcher and flies Glands.
• The end-of-match screen is rebuilt: a panel per team, then a chart of the match per player (army, meat, kills, power) with its key moments marked.
• The meat cables between buildings get a new skin: pale fatty gut with veins in your team's colour.
• The Tech Center and the Pink Slime Vat get their real models.
• Faster: the first match loads in about 13 seconds instead of 19, and big late-game maps draw noticeably quicker on laptops.
• The co-op campaign grows: Anvil and Hammer, where one of you holds the line while the other flies air strikes, and Sinew Crossing, a landing by boat on a walled shore.

• New building, the Fish Market: a shipyard that stands on the shore with its slip in the water. It builds four boats that never leave the water.
• The Prawn Skiff (fast and cheap), the Steak Galley (rowed, with a turret), the Roe Lobber (lobs clutches of roe over the shore at whatever your other units can see) and the T-Bone Barge (carries tanks and big infantry, and drops its ramp on a beach to unload them).
• Land and sea fight properly: melee units can't hit a boat, and a sinking Barge may lose its cargo.
• New map Bile Strait, built for boats. Bay of Gore and Gullet Isle get shipyard sites too.
• The AI builds a navy when the map has water worth fighting over: raids on your shoreline harvesters, bombardments from the sea, and landings.
• A new keyboard scheme, built around a 3×3 command card at the foot of the sidebar: Q W E and friends for your selection's orders, the same keys for the build grid when nothing is selected.
• Every key can be remapped in Settings ▸ Controls, with a Left-handed preset. Hold / to see what each key does right now.
• Attack-move, patrol, hold position and stop. Patrol routes are drawn on the map.
• Space jumps to your latest alert, H to your base. Double-click selects every unit of a type on screen, Ctrl+A your whole army.
• First-time hints for the keys you haven't found yet.
• The Grafter heals by squirting pink slime at its patient from a turret.
• The Meat Zombie was rebuilt (its arms are no longer fused to its sides), and the Kidney Wing flaps.
• Online play is now through Steam only: invite a friend or type a lobby code.

• Tunnels and bridges: units walk, fight and swim under the rock. The roof cuts away round your selection so you can see them.
• Tunnels are dark: lamps, things hanging from the roof, and headlamps on your units. Gunfire under the rock sounds muffled.
• A sphincter can seal a tunnel mouth shut, crushing anything caught in it.
• The AI uses tunnels to sneak, and guards the mouths into its base.
• New 3v3 map Gullet Isle: an island split by a mountain, fought through its tunnels. Sugarloaf and Koko Head get tunnels too.
• Bridge kits in concrete, blue rock and meat. Some tunnels are lined with intestine.
• First person gets mouse look, sprint and jump, and small infantry can walk along walls.
• The Raw Chicken was rebuilt: it trots on all fours, and unloads by rearing up and dropping its passengers out of its bottom.
• New infantry models built from butcher's cuts: the Meat Zombie, the Spitter (it spits teeth from the hole where its head was), the Bone Launcher (its forearm is the cannon) and Patient Zero (a glowing heart under a cape).
• New unit, the Eyestalk: a sniper with a ribcage crossbow. Beyond its own sight it shoots whatever your other units can see.
• Infantry stop skating: new walks matched to their speed, feet planted.
• The AI recovers when its Construction Yard dies, and pulls back from an attack that has gone badly.
• Multiplayer matches start together once everyone has loaded. The loading screen shows tips.
• Placing a building hatches the ground where it can go. Walls and towers no longer stretch your build range.
• Edge-scroll zone and scroll speed in Settings. Repair starts without credits and waits for them.
• New ground textures, shore foam that looks like foam, and a proper wake behind swimmers.

• Movement, targeting and fog now run in native Rust code. Distant units are drawn in batches.
• New Unit budget setting: 600, 1,200 or 2,000 units on the map.
• The Clot Bastion shoots down nukes aimed inside its ring. Superweapon countdowns now show down the left edge.
• The Heptapus walks on real tentacles. The Flesh Ogre fires anti-air missiles.
• Each terrain gets its own cliff rock: sandstone, coral, icicles, poured concrete.
• In first person, hold F to order your squad: follow me, or attack this.
• A loading screen, and terrain draws a lot faster.

• A new explosion system: flash, smoke, fire, blood mist and gibs, picked by what got hit, and scorch marks that fade.
• Every meat unit has its own death, and buildings cook off and collapse.
• The Nuclear Silo replaces the Plague Bloom: a fiery red mushroom cloud.
• Deep liquid blocks ground units. The Raw Chicken swims.
• Fog and turret scans got much cheaper, so big 3v3 matches run faster.

• Co-op campaign: two players (or one plus an AI partner) against generated missions, with a campaign map, briefings and reconnect.
• The generator builds terrain, bases, resources and set pieces from a seed, and throws out seeds that aren't playable.
• Harvesters were eating 62% of a match's simulation time. Now 18x cheaper.
• Bone walls rebuilt as modular pieces that follow slopes without seams.
• The editor gets a sculpt brush, edge painting and live symmetry. Plus red sand terrain.

• Two more maps remade (Gore Canyon and Defcon Flesh) and Slaughter Delta, a six-player map with no symmetry at all.
• Wall blueprint: keep clicking to plan a wall and it builds itself as you can afford it.
• Wall ramps let small infantry climb up and fight from the top of a wall.
• Four fixes from the first live two-player match over Steam.

• The game has a Steam app now, and the first build is uploaded. Store art captured from live matches.
• Terrain layers are half as tall, so hills and cliffs have finer steps and twelve levels instead of six.
• Fog of war now works by terrain layer instead of by metres.
• Cliffs got normal maps and fill their cells, and ramps cut into cliffs properly.

• A Units page built from the game's own data, with portraits rendered from the 3D models.
• A Buildings page drawn as the tech tree.
• Blinkies, an odometer and a writhing meat divider.

• Tried a few ideas for making Hard AI stronger. None of them beat what it already does.
• Recorded the first human match. The model was sure the human would lose, and the human won.
• Built this website: borders made from the game's meat textures, a meat background, and spurters throwing chunks up the sides.

Hello world. This is just a first post to test out the dev log. This is where we will write some updates about the build of Meat Hell as we go.

• Ran hundreds of AI matches with up to eight players and trained a small model to estimate each side's chance of winning.
• Wired it into the AI so it can notice a losing game. So far it's no better than the hand-written rules.
• The AI can record its matches as video, with a camera that follows the fighting.

• Multiplayer over Steam, tested between a Windows host and a Mac client. Friends-only lobbies and overlay invites.
• The download got a lot smaller: 1.3 GB down to 458 MB.
• Hard AI trains a bigger army, attacks in proper waves and micros: it spreads out against splash and kites.
• Fixed a bug that made units overshoot their waypoints and ping-pong forever at high game speed.

• The editor's Smooth tool scans the borders in a selection and lets you pick cliff, ramp, blend or overlay for each one.
• Terrain blends now wander and round their corners instead of following the grid.
• Every map setting from the old editor is in the new one.

• Version two of the map editor: paint, select, objects and properties, playable regions, triggers and scripted events.
• Playable regions work in game too. A mission can open up more of the map as it goes.
• You can play a map inside the editor with a hidden preview match.

• Widescreen and ultrawide: the battlefield fills the screen and menus stay 16:9.
• Water reworked: real wave lighting, foam from textures, surf on the shore.
• A new low-poly meat tank whose cannon recoils when it fires.
• In first person the camera kicks back when you shoot, and shots can now miss.

• Drygrass: a terrain that reuses grass's shapes with its own textures, so new terrains no longer need their own models.

• The AI now picks a strategy at the start of each match, runs missions from a library of nine tactics and switches strategy when one isn't working.
• Turtle AIs plot a walled compound, build inside it, and no longer wall in their own harvesters.
• Six new skirmish maps.
• Shift-queued waypoints, a group info panel, an idle-harvester warning, and the MCV is buildable.
• Press Space for a selection console. The whole UI moved onto one design system.

• Liquid spawners: water, blood or milkshake pours out of a point, floods the basin, flows under bridges and mixes where bodies meet.
• Liquid shows on the minimap and hides under fog.
• Sell buildings for half their cost.
• Drive a harvester in first person and it scoops up the meat it rolls over.
• The exported game had no music. Fixed.

• Story bible and a 15-map outline for the meat campaign.
• A neutral Polar Bear wanders the snow maps.