Hello Survivors!

V2.6 Experimental is here with a group of fixes, tweaks, and gameplay changes.

Here are some of the highlights:

• Dew Collectors now require jars as "fuel" to produce water.
• Jars no longer require the crucible to be crafted.
• The default jar refund chance is now set to 60%.
• Zombie XP has been rebalanced based on type, HP, and Damage.
• Added tougher biome spawn zombies to the snow and wasteland biomes.

Here is how you participate:

1. Right click on the game in steam
2. Click on properties
3. Click the “betas” tab
4. The drop down menu will have latest_experimental available <— you want THAT
5. Select that and wait for the game to download

Continue reading below for more info!

Changelog V2.6 B10:

Added

• Discord friends' sessions now appear in server browser's friends tab
• Replaced properties list for zombie xp values at the top of entityclasses.xml
• Added Roaming sounds for animalChicken and animalChickenHostile
• RWG town planner removes some connections between pairs of districts to increase the amount of T, L and Cap tiles
• Radiated, charged and infernal mutated zombie's ranged attacks now have increased distance, speed and different patterns
• Enemy AI now play an alert sound when they run away from either an entity or being hurt
• RWG conversion of one L tile to a Cap per district group unless the group would split
• Stag and Doe now have roam and alert SFX

Changed

• Removed the Bone Knife requirement from the Harvest Animals Challenge
• Updated loot list parameters to include ignore_loot_abundance="true" for construction crate, hidden stash, and buried treasure
• Adjusted spawn groups for the snow biome to include Radiated, Charged, and Infernal Chuck zombie variants
• Adjusted spawn groups for the wasteland biome to include Radiated, Charged, and Infernal Mutated zombie variants
• Increased the snow biome gamestage_modifier from 2 to 3 and gamestage_bonus from 20 to 30
• Increased the wasteland biome gamestage_modifier from 3 to 5 and gamestage_modifier from 30 to 50
• Adjusted the wasteland weather with new hot and cold events
• Refactored zombie xp progression based on zombie HP and Damage
• Reduced block damage on zombieSteveCrawler and zombieMaleHazmat hands to align better with other zombies in their group
• Adjusted various zombie HP values to align better with other zombies in their group
• Increased player kill XP
• Removed legacy "Boss" EntityDamage passives from Radiated Utility Worker and Radiated Businessman
• Updated chuck hand variants with new boulder projectiles that have progressive entity and block damage
• Updated loadingTipApiary to warn about closing the Apiary instead of when opening it
• Dew Collector requires jars as a "fuel type" to produce water
• Crafting jars no longer requires the crucible
• Updated the hit mask override on chuck zombie hands from arrow to rocket to prevent boulders from passing through bars
• Gyrocopter can now have 5 mod slots (requires a new gyro to be crafted)
• PC/Mac/Linux now use an uncompressed texture for the road splat map for higher quality blending
• Increased dire wolf and zombie bear hearing and sight ranges
• Increased mutated zombie ranged attack damage
• Bears can now fit through 1x2m openings
• Snakes now play footstep sounds
• Improved terrain blending where topsoil is removed
• Disabled allharvest HarvestCount penalty on several melee weapons to allow basic resource harvesting such as plant fibers, wood, and stone
• Updated harvest tags on several blocks for perkJunkMiner
• Updated oreWoodHarvest tag to only be applied to wood, stone, ore, clay, and sand
• Updated localization for armor perks to describe their loot boosted items
• Separated the dew collector and apiary fuel windows in code and XUI
• Dew Collector output now has 3 rows for a total of 9 slots
• Replaced old buff names used in logic for Stage 2 storm buffs
• Reduced completion requirements of several medical challenges to 5 - If the challenge cannot be redeemed, one additional cure will trigger the completion

Fixed

• Paint rotation on baseboard in hospital_01
• Switching Challenge tabs should no longer cause them to flicker
• Large Quest Generators now display their smoke particles correctly
• Localization keys for shapewedge60TipTrimQuarterLeft2Sided and shapewedge60TrimQuarterRight2Sided were flipped
• Localization typo in some quest reward bundle descriptions
• Removed debug logging of friend IDs
• Vultures on a dedicated server would only attack once
• ChangeBlocks could set the wrong neighbor block’s topsoil to broken
• AI targeting range for nearest player was too short and inconsistent
• Bear attack was hitting before animation hit
• The spawner source was set after the entity was spawned in four cases
• RWG mixer was using mountains instead of burntForest_mountains
• Tagging issue that would prevent Legendary Parts from spawning when any armor perk was active
• Apiary fuel is no longer lost when the apiary is picked up
• Progression bar no longer resets if fuel is removed from collector class workstations
• Shift-Click for "fuel" items in the collector class workstations is now working
• Set the default jar refund rate to 60%
• Floating platforms on growing trees are no longer possible
• Issues with adding/removing vehicle storage mods and item loss
• Large ragdoll forces no longer launches small animal corpses long distances
• Sleepers had too short of a kill off timeout
• Rogue Armor Set cowl would not show correctly