Hello, Outpost Keepers!
Hotpatch 0.17.17 is now available. This is a smaller patch focused on reliability and quality-of-life improvements. It makes planted-crop automation reliable across staffing changes and saved games, cleans up stale work in the task queue, and makes hauled items visible directly on pawns.
Reliable Auto-Harvest
- Auto-harvest is now always active and continues checking crops during guard alerts.
- Every mature player-planted crop is checked when a save is loaded, and missing harvest work is recreated immediately.
- Harvest tasks can wait in the queue until a suitable worker becomes available instead of disappearing when no Farmer is free.
- Wild forageable plants are excluded from automatic harvesting and remain available for manual harvest orders.
- Older saves that persisted auto-harvest as disabled are migrated automatically.
Carried Items
- Pawns now display the icon of the item they are carrying directly over their torso.
- Carried stacks show their quantity beside the icon.
- The overlay clears automatically when the pawn delivers or drops the item.
Thank you for the detailed save reports and console traces that helped isolate the restored-crop issue.