Hotfix 1.2.1 DEMO Build - Starter Belt Tradeskill Fix — Apocalypse: The Hunger Steam update #486901

Attention runners,We've just pushed a quick hotfix to the Apocalypse: The Hunger (Demo) to address a bug many of you reported when trying to forge...

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Apocalypse: The Hunger (4397160)
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Published
20 June 2026 - 02:47:09 UTC
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Attention runners,We've just pushed a quick hotfix to the Apocalypse: The Hunger (Demo) to address a bug many of you reported when trying to forge early-game gear.🛠️ Bug Fixes & UpdatesStarter Equipment Upgrade Fix: Resolved an issue where attempting to upgrade the Standard NCU belt (belt_basic) at the Tradeskill menu would fail and throw an "Item not found" error, despite having the required resources.Technical details for the curious: This was caused by a strict data-type mismatch in the backend. Starting gear was being generated with a numeric ID, while the Tradeskill UI was passing a string ID when dragging and dropping. Dropped loot already used string IDs, which is why everything else worked fine. The Anvil's logic has been rewritten to safely recognize all item IDs regardless of their origin.Your starting gear can now be successfully upgraded into a black-market masterpiece alongs...

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