Survivalist: Invisible Strain News

By popular request, you can now save and load character appearance settings on the character creator! Here's the full changelist:

• Added another music track for player camp, removed synth on one of the title tracks
  
• Added option to save characters in the character creator
  
• Added debug pages for music and bird song, and toned down the bird song a bit
  
• Crash fixes
  

EDIT - turns out I broke something that meant some savegames crashed on load, I've now released a fix (v61).

Just to say that over the weekend I released a patch that adds music to the game! Unlike in the original Survivalist, it'll play different types of music depending on what you're doing - whether you're in combat, or sneaking up on some zombies, or exploring, or managing your base, or whatever. It's a first pass, hopefully I'll expand the library over time to add some more variation.

That is all :)

Hello I've got a new patch, this one's all about mining:

• Added Iron Ore, Steel Ingots, and ability to forge a bunch of things with them including chicken wire
  
• Added Geological Map so you can see where the different minerals are most likely to be
  
• Can build Mines to get an infinite supply of minerals in case the rocks run out
  
• NPCs stay in range of base when responding to threats
  
• Play a sound when block/dodge prompt appears, also clamp it a bit more to the centre of the screen
  
• Fixed terrain saved in editor not working, disabled terrain editing options in play mode for now
  
• Fix for kiln not warming people next to it
  
• Crash fix
  

EDIT - had to issue another quick patch to fix mine building:

• Fix for mines not being built with toolbox
  
• Made birdsong location based and go quiet if there's combat
  

A few people have been reporting a crash with the rabbit traps, so here's a patch to address that (and other things I've been working on):

• Reduced number of seeds harvested from crops
  
• Press middle mouse button (or Share on PS4 controller) to toggle equipment select menu, also made it so you can change equipment in command mode
  
• Make it possible to plant crops on a tile an NPC is standing on
  
• Some fixes for trader loot spawning
  
• Don't show presence notifications when fires go out or get lit in your community if it isn't you that's doing it directly
  
• Flipped arrow direction showing doors when you are placing a building back to how they were - except for watchtowers and workstations
  
• Reduce rabbit inventory weight and made them not immune to nearby pipe bomb blasts and molotovs
  
• Close building inventory screen if your character leaves the building
  
• Fix for being able to steal food from pots by eating it directly from the pot
  
• Fix for out of sync error when opening map
  
• Crash fix
  

Got another new patch out, this one's mostly just a bunch of fixes for various issues people reported while I was working on traps. But I've also toned down the raiders a bit so hopefully they'll be less annoying, let me know if you think I went too far, or not far enough :) Here's the list of changes:

• Reduced amount of raiders/hordes (when community presence score is lower), and reduced probability of them having helmets and bullet-resistant vests
  
• Made burning campfires contribute to community presence score
  
• Force a 10 second delay between AI using molotovs to attack something
  
• Some fixes to raider AI
  
• Don't allow joining an online co-op game if their story folders have been edited to be different from yours
  
• Fix for prices being incorrectly rounded down when shown in speech text
  
• Fix for invisible strain map colors
  
• Fix for changing allow join mode having no effect in mid-game
  
• Fix for menu bug when you switch character while placing buildings
  
• Fix for being able to plant crops in rivers
  
• Fix for NPCs sometimes mining for stone
  
• Fix for character weapons and molotovs being visible in fog of war
  
• Fix for characters set to take over a building sometimes harvesting crops when they should
• chopping wood
  
• Fix for characters sometimes retrieving water from river when they should get a bottle and fill it from a nearby well
  
• Don't damage your own buildings when throwing molotovs or explosives
  
• Made map and sidebar colors of corpses retain a tint of their original color so you can still tell if they were hostile etc
  
• Made looted corpses lighter on map
  
• Some small tweaks to fatigue and zombie combat (zombat)
  
• Flipped arrow direction showing doors when you are placing a building - is it less or more confusing this way?
  
• Fixed some crashes