Lo-Fi games have been continually adding new content and improvements to their open world, post-apocalyptic survival simulator, Kenshi.

We’ve seen previous updates add women, beards, cannibals, and all kinds of other wonderful things—and now the game is finally getting critters/monsters, the first of which is below:

The creature is officially called The Beak Thing, and it’s likened to something of a giraffe/bird that appears to have a hunger for wayward travelers and bandits.

Here’s the full list of other things which are going to be released in the next update for Kenshi:

• Added stealth!
• 64-bit version available. 32-bit version will continue, but will get occasional crashes.
• New dialog/AI hybrid system that takes into account situation details and remembers what you’ve done in the past.
• Thugs and bandits can now harass and rob you rather than always attacking on sight.  Thugs in town can insult you, then go outside the gates and jump you when you leave town.  NPCs can follow and chase you while they talk or threaten you, and know whether you are running away.
• Changes to relation system, fighting someone in the middle of nowhere has very little effect on faction relations.  Individuals can be perceived as temporary enemies or allies.
• A new terrain engine was necessary for the 64-bit build.  It looks worse than the old one because we’ve run out of texture units, but only until we upgrade to DX11, then it should look better again.
• NPC AI now has a schedule.  They go to bed at night.  Shopkeepers shoo you out of their shop at closing time and lock up for the night.
• Buildings can now have multiple floors
• Characters are less disadvantaged by being outnumbered, your lvl 50 warrior can now take out a group of starving bandits without getting mobbed. Basically they will miss more often as he moves around and dodges.
• More details added to the GUI, including visible calculations for character stats and penalties.
• Multi-threaded resource loading for smooth creation of models and textures.  Shorter loading hiccups when moving around the map.

In case you missed the preview I did for an older build of Kenshi, you can find that here. The game has a pretty stunning amount of depth and content, and it has only gotten bigger and better since then. Perhaps I should do another preview?

The current status of the game’s current major additions are as follows:

• Dialogue & AI Programming is at 99%, but the actual content is at 5%.
• Stealth Programming is at 90%, but stealth content is at 5%.
• Beast Programming is at 80%, while content, again, is at about 5%.
• Weather System Programming is almost finished at 95%, but with 0% content.
• Pathfinding is at 95% completion

Unfortunately, with pathfinding taking longer than expected, we may not see the next patch for some time—as the developers are holding off releasing it until pathfinding is fully implemented.

You can find Kenshi on Steam Early Access, for $19.99 dollars.