Experimental Branch Update - Monkeys, projectiles and more!

Hey Survivalists!

We hope island life is treating you kindly and your monkey friends are well fed on banana goodness!

Today we're dropping a new update for our Experimental Branch that focuses on quality of life improvements, including monkeys, projectiles, stamina and more.

These changes are directly driven from your feedback, so we'd like to say a big thank you to everyone taking the time to let us know what they like about The Survivalists, as well as what they'd like to see changed or built upon.

Below you can find the changes in all their glory!




Changes

• Monkeys will continue working and will no longer automatically be summoned when entering monkey management mode.
  
• Working monkeys can be summoned by pressing ‘E’ whilst in Monkey management mode.
  
• Single monkey can now be more easily selected when using a controller
  
• Player’s max stamina slightly increased
  
• Projectiles no longer auto target non-hostile things in the world (except for cogs)
  
• Loot pools for structures updated to reflect recipe changes
  

Fixes

• Fix for monkeys not filling their inventory to max capacity
  
• Fix for gears and torches sometimes being invisible in labyrinths and vaults
  
• Fix for Wooden Slats and Wooden clubs not being craftable
  
• Fix for not being able to complete some in-progress recipes when upgrading from an earlier build
  
• Monkey work icons no longer overlap monkey names
  

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.

For all the latest news check out these links:

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May your loot be plentiful and your monkeys well fed!