By Indie Report in Card Survival: Fantasy Forest — 28 Jan 2026

Card Survival: Fantasy Forest New Release

Article Date: January 28, 2026

The Card Survival Series expands once again with the launch of Card Survival: Fantasy Forest, a card‑based deep survival simulator set in a primordial forest that feels alive and unpredictable. Players carve a home, harvest resources, and navigate the natural world's beauty, mystery, and cruelty.

Key Highlights

Animal agents are now available to all players.
Major farming and garden improvements.
Lake area overhaul.

New Features

Mining System - Build mines inside caves. Three mine types (Flint, Witchstone, Copper) with matching vein distribution and expandable tunnels.
New cave added to River Pass, containing flint veins.
Copper veins added to Bear Cave and the cave in Pine Slopes.
Leatherworking Overhaul - Skins sorted by size, furs now have a fur stat for insulation, cured skins treated as low‑softness leather, brain tanning yields brain mush based on mammal size.
Log Booms - Logs can be dragged to the river where they float downstream. Log booms automatically catch floating logs for transportation and milling.
Food Preservation Overhaul - System re‑engineered for effective stacking of preservation methods; bugs such as spoilage loss/gain errors fixed.
New recipes: Berry Fat Cakes, various pasties, Pine Salve.
Fish meat now has separate lean and fatty variants.
Bracket fungus can be cut into stripes with sharpened stones.
Adding pine or juniper needles to campfires/fireplaces produces a pleasant fragrance.
Fireplaces can now be dug with a stick or antler; shovel speeds the process.
Hardtack durability increased dramatically.
Cutting fat chunks into fat pieces no longer consumes tool durability.
Tracks can now be trashed.
Butchering wolves yields at least one meat scrap on each step.
Food filter now displays cattail roots at all processing stages.
Sleeping and napping restore more focus than before.
All areas upstream from Greenfalls are now protected from flooding.
Wood Sorrel gives a mild effect when eaten; tea amplifies it.
Wheat can now be added to stews.
Dismantling a snow shelter returns its component items.
Lighting dry juniper needles on fire grants Juniper Mosquito Protection.
Shapes and blanks can now be forged inside the furnace.
Wheat in the garden grows as fast as in the field.
Rye and wheat syrup spice now adds a tiny amount of iron.
Wheat straw can be used to repair damaged roofs.
Cutting a tree on a sap or resin tap now consumes the same durability as a normal cut.
Increased potency of altered mind state for boiled fly agaric.

Bug Fixes

Juniper Mosquito protection now works properly.
Pine nuts no longer rot into rotten remains after expiration.
Malting wheat can now be dried in ovens, campfires, and fireplaces.
Mosquito repellent effects no longer fail to diminish over time.
Harvesting spirit mushrooms with a sickle no longer produces forest caps instead of spirit mushrooms.
Fireplace no longer counts twice for sanctuary calculation.
Improvised shelter, improvised bed, log stool, sawhorses, soaking reeds, and soaking nettles are no longer incorrectly safe from floods.
Wood Sorrel patches now appear in older save files as well.
Top‑quality arrows now correctly apply their clash and damage bonuses.
Clover added to stew now shows the correct description.
Wheat no longer requires medium nutrients (instead of high) when recovering from dormancy.
Billberries now recover from dormancy with the correct medium‑to‑high hydration requirement.
Dormant and mature garden fireroots now correctly remain immune to mites.
Animals can no longer eat food from containers equipped by the player.
Syrup spice calorie output is now balanced with direct syrup consumption.
Drying malting wheat no longer turns it into malted rye; it now correctly becomes malted wheat.
Wood Sorrel patch, water cistern, and tanning pit no longer pulse every tick.
Dried juniper berries now last their full intended duration.
Wolf packs no longer return to fight immediately after fleeing.
Fishing in ice holes no longer uses minnows as bait.
Bones can now be added to very thick stews.
The “Wash off Tannins From Leather” sub‑quest now completes correctly when using the river for washing.
Cauldrons containing liquid can no longer be placed on travois or sledges.
Sleep deprivation now affects comfort value rather than comfort rate.
Juniper needle protection effect remains visible at high levels (fixed invisible‑effect bug).
Dry juniper needles now correctly grant bug protection when used as lit tinder.
Moon stone now grants Moon Blessing instead of stamina recovery.
Cutting a tree directly on a sap or resin tap now consumes the correct amount of durability.