# PEAK Patch 2.04.a THE KILN IS BACK - Product: PEAK (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/peak) - Vendor: Team PEAK - Date: 2026-09-02 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3527290/view/716788653799506284 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/peak/releases/2026-09-02-patch-2.04.a-the-kiln-is-back What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Condors now fly around the CALDERA - **added** — Petrifying rocks have been added to THE KILN - **added** — Hot rock bridges have been added to THE KILN - **added** — Room codes have been added to allow players to share lobby access and join games cross-platform - **added** — HUD indicator now displays when you are muted using PUSH TO TALK or PUSH TO MUTE settings - **added** — Campfire save now remembers all items around the campfire instead of just carried items - **changed** — Added 2 more luggages in the spawner for THE KILN and removed 1 luggage from the statue area at the end of the CALDERA with guaranteed better luggage spawn - **changed** — Fanny Pack is now disabled in solo play - **changed** — Using the Rescue Claw on a friend will ragdoll them for less time - **changed** — Maximum velocity from bouncing off a mushroom from high up has been raised - **changed** — Jump height will decay slightly faster on consecutive bounces - **changed** — Bouncing onto a mushroom from higher up is now less likely to bounce at an unpredictable off-angle - **changed** — Dislodging stuck-in arrows will no longer take priority over interacting with other things - **changed** — Citadel's TowerStacker code is no longer obfuscated - **fixed** — Evil bounce mushrooms in the mushroom hell variant of ROOTS now have different coloring from normal ones - **fixed** — Cooking a Rescue Claw no longer leads to unintended behavior - **fixed** — Frogs now turn into Frog Legs when cooked by environmental situations such as explosions - **fixed** — Pandora's Lunchbox now inflicts multiple types of status instead of only one - **fixed** — Host's dropped items will no longer disappear if they disconnect - **fixed** — Rapidly dropping and picking up items in a laggy lobby will no longer delete the item - **fixed** — Spike traps with terrain generated on top of them will not trigger - **fixed** — Peaks Summitted stat now increments once when winning instead of multiple times ##### PATCH 2.04.a ##### The CALDERA and THE KILN ##### Have been re-added to the map rotation…with some extra goodies ːPEAKpointː - Condors now fly around the CALDERA. Ever wonder why those big nests were around? Don’t get kidnapped! - Petrifying rocks have been added to THE KILN - Hot rock bridges have been added to THE KILN - Added 2 more luggages in the spawner for THE KILN and removed 1 luggage from the statue area at the end of the CALDERA, but made it guaranteed to spawn _better_ luggage. ## PREPARING FOR PORTS Believe it or not, we’ve actually been putting in a lot of work behind the scenes to prepare the game for console ports! In this patch, we’ve merged in the porting work with the main Steam version of the game. This may introduce bugs or cause installed mods to stop working, but we wanted to get these issues out of the way before we actually launch on consoles. But on the bright side, we now have: ##### ROOM CODES! PEAK has room codes!!! This is how players will be able to play cross-platform once our console ports are out. - In a lobby, you should see a room code on the pause menu that can be copied and sent to your friends. - They can enter that code by hitting “JOIN GAME” on the main menu. - Existing ways to invite your friends to games will still work. - In the Settings menu, there is an option to hide the room code (for streamers) ##### BALANCE CHANGES - Fanny Pack is now disabled in solo play. - You can no longer duplicate a Scout Effigy with Scout’s Generosity (for real this time) - Using the Rescue Claw on a friend will ragdoll them for less time, making it easier for them to grab onto something once the claw completes. - Bouncy Mushroom changes: - The max velocity you can get from bouncing off a mushroom from high up has been raised. This should make it more consistent to get the Mycoacrobatics Badge. - Jump height will decay slightly faster on consecutive bounces. - Bouncing onto a mushroom from higher up will now make it less likely for you to bounce at an unpredictable off-angle that could lead to taking fall damage. - Dislodging stuck-in arrows will no longer take priority over interacting with other things you might be looking at ##### BUGFIXES - Fixed “evil bounce mushrooms” having the same coloring as normal ones in the mushroom hell variant of ROOTS. - Fixed cooking a Rescue Claw leading to unintended behavior. - Fixed Frogs not turning into Frog Legs when getting cooked by environmental situations such as explosions. - Fixed an issue introduced in the last patch where Pandora’s Lunchbox would only inflict one type of status. - Fixed a case where the host's dropped items would sometimes disappear if they disconnected - Rapidly dropping/picking up items in a laggy lobby should no longer have a chance of deleting the item - Spike traps that have had terrain generate on top of them will not trigger. - Fixed a case where your "Peaks Summitted" stat would get incremented several times when winning, instead of just once ##### QUALITY OF LIFE - There is now a HUD indicator for when you are muted when using PUSH TO TALK/PUSH TO MUTE settings. - Your campfire save will now remember _all _the items you've got around the campfire instead of just what you're carrying on you ##### MODDER NOTES - Citadel's TowerStacker code is no longer obfuscated