Greetings, Survivors!
This major update introduces the highly anticipated Village Wall system to fortify your settlement, alongside the new Preserving Bin for food management. We've also added tons of quality-of-life features like "Hold to Collect," equipment comparison tooltips, and significant improvements to the Pillory/Mercy systems!
Also, we are always collecting feedback from you through Steam, Discord, videos, and more. So, we added more improvements based on your input. Thank you. Keep it coming!
1. New Feature: Village Walls
Fortify your settlement with the new dynamic wall system!
Upgrades via Village Center: You can now construct and upgrade Village Walls directly through your Village Center.
Level Progression: The walls feature four distinct levels of visual and structural progression that scale alongside your overall Village Level Growth.
Management & Sync: The wall system is fully integrated into the village management menu, features proper save persistence, and is fully synchronized across multiplayer sessions.
2. Village Management & New Structures
Preserving Bin: Added a brand new constructible structure designed specifically to preserve food items and extend their shelf life.
Auto-Repair: Villagers assigned as workers to specific buildings will now automatically perform repairs on those structures.
Increased Production: Raised the maximum villager production output limit from 99 up to 300!
Smarter Gathering: Villagers will now proactively venture into safe areas just outside the Village Limits to collect resources.
New Recipes: Added several new crafting recipes to the Blacksmith’s Shop and the Apothecary’s Hut.
Personal Chest: Added a dedicated Personal Storage Chest inside the player's house.
3. Mercy System & Combat Tweaks
The Pillory and Mercy mechanics have been refined for better flow and multiplayer stability.
Interaction Changes: When an enemy begs for mercy, you can now Tap to free them (triggering the loot window) or Hold to arrest them and send them to the Pillory.
Loot Balance: Enemies successfully sent to the Pillory as prisoners will no longer drop their regular combat loot.
Multiplayer Sync: Fully synchronized all mercy and arrest actions for multiplayer clients.
Combat & AI:
Village Guards have received a damage buff and several animation fixes to make them more effective in raids.
Tweaked general enemy behavior, improved detection logic, and refined how enemy stun and taunt animations are handled.
Fixed a bug where enemies would awkwardly hover or slide toward the player from far away.
4. World, Environment & Economy
Resource Respawning: Trees and rocks in the North Plains now have proper respawn timers. We also significantly improved the respawn behavior of all destructible props to ensure perfect save file compatibility.
Item Decay: Introduced a new item decay time multiplier to better balance how quickly perishables spoil over time.
5. Quality of Life & UI
Hold to Collect: You can now hold the interact button to automatically gather all loose items in your immediate area!
Equipment Comparison: Hovering over gear in your inventory will now display a direct stat comparison against your currently equipped items.
Free Blueprint Rotation: Building blueprints can now be freely rotated for precise, unrestricted placement.
Cosmetic Toggles: Added new toggles in the Options menu to hide your character's Backpack and Head Item graphics.
Tutorial Toggle: Added a master toggle to turn off all tutorial pop-ups and related UI elements for veteran players.
Multiplayer Map: Map indicators in multiplayer now clearly display player names and distinct colors so you can easily track your friends.
Animation Fix: Fixed an issue where the torch graphic would remain visible while running with a drawn bow.
Localization: Continued updates and polish for UI text and localization.
Download the update and keep surviving!