Experimental Branch Update 1.04 - New Key Rebindings!

Hey Survivalists!

We hope we've not caught you monkeying around, we have another patch for the Experimental branch and the patch for live with these quality of life changes is very close!

Here's all of todays changes based on all of your amazing feedback!



Changes

• Key binding update – exposed more unique options for “Interact” so these can be bound to different keys.
  
• Rebalanced building recipe costs
  
• Monkey commands can now be given whilst the player is carrying a chest or chair
  Monkey combat quest and glossary text updated to reflect monkey combat changes
  

Fixes

• Fix for Star/Favouriting monkeys not correctly updating favourite monkey status
  
• Monkeys can now correctly repair spike traps
  
• Fix to stop players exiting teleporters onto unsafe tiles
  
• Both meat kebab recipes now produce the same item
  
• Fix for players facing incorrect direction when firing bows
  
• Fix for blueprints not being able to be built on rare occasions
  

Note on keybinding and a workaround for potential issues
There may be some issues with keybinding not working correctly if they were edited before this build has gone live. This will be fixed but to fix this yourself on experimental, first reset your keybindings to default and that should let you then bind your keys correctly.


We hope you like these changes and look forward to hearing what you think about them!

If you don't have access to the Experimental Branch yet for The Survivalists and would like to try upcoming changes to the game you can do some by following the information below...



Warning on save data

If you access the Experimental Branch you risk your save data. We highly recommend backing up your save data before accessing it. Your save data default should be here:



You can just copy this to another folder for safe keeping.

Your current save will be compatible with the new Experimental Branch but likely you will not be able to go back to default with that save. The Experimental Branch will be kept up to date, so you could in theory just play the new branch going forwards. Also you will only be able to play online with other experimental branch players as the default will be incompatible.

Steps to enable Experimental Branch

First right click the game in your Steam Library and select Properties.



Then select the ‘Betas’ tab.



From here select Experimental from the dropdown list.



Once you next try to open The Survivalists on Steam you should automatically download the experimental branch!



Let us know all your thoughts and feedback in the ‘Experimental Branch Feedback’ section on the Steam forums and feel free to report any issues in the ‘Report Experimental Branch Problems’ area.

Thanks again for all your support and feedback so far, we can’t wait for everyone to try out all of the tweaks and new changes!

We'll keep everyone up to date here on Steam when all of the new changes roll onto the new branch and live.

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May your loot be plentiful and your monkeys well fed!