West Wood Remake Updates
A_L Studios spent more than a year publishing Friday sneak peeks, then dated the remake trailer for August 21, 2026. The Roblox listing was still being touched on August 17. This page is the changelog the game never printed: what the YouTube playlist actually showed, what Discord leaked when YouTube went quiet, and which wiki pages to open when a patch moves a meter.
The original West Wood launched November 4, 2023 as a free co-op survival place with a ten-player server, Soul Coins, contracts, and a Wendigo the community named Jerry. The remake is not a texture pack. Movement, doors, cabinets, cameras, inventory, houses, town scale, blizzard, gadgets, and the beast itself each got a dedicated sneak peek. If you only watched the release trailer you saw radio calls and a silhouette. The playlist is the actual patch notes.
Dated launch, still a living town
WEST WOOD: REMAKE | RELEASE DATE TRAILER is two minutes of scale: radio, houses, Jerry’s remade body. Comments from the developers and players settled the age rating around 9+ with moderate blood and fear, not a 16+ corridor shooter. Voice chat is listed as unsupported on the Roblox page even while suspicion rules still punish noise, eating, and lights. Play as if the town can hear you. Do not wait for a VC toggle that may never arrive.
Favorites sat around 240,000 with 18.9 million visits on the original listing. That is the audience the remake has to keep: people who already know House 2 is a trap. New residents should still start on how to play instead of this chronology.
The Environment 3 sneak peek is the update most veterans missed: a river that splits the map, bridges you have to commit to, phone rings that can pull Jerry, and sneaking that actually sounds like weight. If your squad still sprints between lots as if Alberta were a lobby, this clip is the argument against that habit. Pair it with how to hide and gadgets.
YouTube playlist, in the order it was taught
- Movement, then doors, then Environment 1 (yellow house, more natural terrain).
- Immersion (store, blue house, church interiors) and looting cabinets.
- Inventory (flashlight, beartrap, cleaner hotbar) and cameras (radio GUI, signal tower).
- Red House, Environment 2 (dust, map slice), locked-door bashing.
- Environment 3 plus sneaking (river, phones), New House with a turret, town walk, brown house.
- New items and furniture (radar tablet, audio device), town overview, blizzard short, The Beast.
- Gameplay teaser from private tests, then the August 21, 2026 release trailer.
We already embedded those clips on the pages that need them: bash on door bashing, cabinets on loot, beast on Jerry, cooking on cooking. This tracker exists so you do not have to reconstruct Friday nights from memory.
Discord-only notes that never got a public video
Commenters on the blizzard short were explicit: later peeks landed on Discord. One showed seasons — spring, summer, the obvious rest — plus a HUD ring for the medallion, bars for health, stamina, thirst, and hunger, and a reworked hotbar. Another showed the red-roof interior that used to be houses 8 and 3, with a pool table room and a bedroom pass. Treat those as shipping intent, then confirm in your server. The wiki pages for seasons and HUD exist because those systems change how you eat, drink, and stand still.
When the place goes quiet after launch, come back here before you trust a random “codes” thumbnail. Promo boxes are still scarce. Cache numbers still matter. The codes hub stays honest about that. The roadmap stand-in is the other half of this page: no public Trello, so sneak peeks are the board.
As of late August 2026 the live remake place (ID 109129552698918) is sitting in a Post-Release Patch BETA window. Expect bugs, HUD drift, and the occasional odd spawn. Treat Discord and this tracker as living notes, not a polished Steam changelog. For official channels, group links, and how this unofficial wiki relates to A_L Studios, use the community page.
How to use an update without wrecking a night
Read this tracker after a wipe, not during a chase. If a bar appeared on your HUD, open HUD and seasons before you blame Jerry. If a river showed up, stop sprinting lots like a racing game. If a phone exists, it is a relocate, documented on gadgets, not a win button. The August 21, 2026 stamp is a door, not a campaign ending.
When Discord is ahead of YouTube, believe the clip, then confirm the meter in a live server. We will not invent patch numbers. We will keep linking the playlist to the page that needs it: Beast to Jerry, cooking to cooking, doors to hiding, blizzard to weather. That is how a wiki stays faster than a rumor thumbnail.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers before you queue.
Is the sneak peek playlist complete?
Twenty-one public videos plus Discord-only HUD and season clips. This page plus the roadmap is the board.
Did the remake replace the original place?
Play the numbered West Wood URL. Alternative places existed during takedowns. Do not trust a copy with a similar thumbnail.
What shipped after the trailer?
Confirm in your server. Seasons, HUD bars, river, phones, bash, cabinets, and the new Jerry model were the advertised stack.
Where do I go for codes after a patch?
Codes hub. Promo boxes stay scarce. Caches stay real.
Is Smog Wood part of this wiki?
No. A_L Studios posted other experiments. This wiki stays in Westwood.