Playtest Version 69 - Hunting & Cooking

Version 69

Deer

• Added deer. Does, bucks and fawns can now be found around the base and out in raids.
• Deer usually travel in small herds, but you will also find plenty of loners. A deer by itself is usually a buck.
• They are faster than you. You cannot simply chase one down — shoot it or cut off its escape.
• Fawns are slow enough to catch. Their mothers do not take that well.
• Crouching matters. Deer can spot a standing player from a long distance, and a sprinting player from even farther away.
• At night, deer lie down and sleep, making them much easier to sneak up on.
• Spook one deer and the rest of the herd will usually run with it.
• Some bucks will charge instead of fleeing, and they hit hard.
• Does with a nearby fawn may also stand their ground instead of running.
• Deer now spray blood when hit, with a larger burst on the shot that kills them.

Butchering and Cooking

• A dead deer becomes a lootable container. Open and search the carcass just like any other container.
• Does provide 4–5 raw meat.
• Bucks provide 5–8 raw meat plus both antlers.
• Fawns provide 1–2 raw meat.
• Meat and antlers do not stack. Eight steaks will take eight inventory slots.
• Empty carcasses disappear after 10 seconds.
• Carcasses that still contain loot disappear after 5 minutes.
• Carcasses will never disappear while you are standing over them.
• Campfires and stoves can now cook meat. Put the meat inside, leave it cooking, and come back later.
• Campfires must be lit and contain meat before cooking will begin.
• Stoves are always active, cook faster, and can hold more meat.
• Raw meat restores 18 hunger.
• Cooked meat restores 45 hunger, making cooking well worth the extra effort.

Wooden Buildings

• Added the complete modular wooden building set.

The Walkie-Talkie

• The Call button now lights up when extraction can actually be called and stays dark when it cannot.
• Scan now blinks until a signal has been locked.
• When you get close enough to call extraction, the radio automatically raises itself so the Call button is ready when you arrive.

Building

• Building by hand is now twice as fast.
• Manual construction now takes 6 seconds instead of 12.
• Settlers still build at the previous speed.

Fixes

• The Field Craft surgical kit now drops at your feet when your inventory is full instead of silently being sent to a trader reward box.
• Previously, the cloth used to craft it could simply be deleted when this happened.
• Fixed the stutter that could appear once settlers had assigned jobs.
• The colony system was repeatedly scanning every building in the base several times per second. This has been corrected.