Equipment Rework

Equipment such as weapons and warm hats in previous updates was really confusing as survivors would automatically equip them and there was no way to have control over who was wearing what. It was just whoever got to grab it first. We have redone how equipment works as well as added a ton of new things to equip. You can now right click items to tell your survivors to store or equip the item. As well in the equipment menu you can tell them to unequip the items.

New equipment menus


Lots of new Equipment

As Equipment is now more useful we have added a ton of new equipment. We have added a Tannery, a Loom, a Forge and even a workbench called 'the fun bench' (we will get to that later) as such there is now a new category for research with 4 tiers for new equipment!

Research menu with the 5 new blobs and new section for equipment


Equipment benefits

All equipment has different properties. Making warm winter clothing will keep your survivors warmer but will not offer much for defense. However having full metal armor will make you really hard to do damage to, but will slow you down significantly. As such we have added more to the status menu to show how the equipment is effecting them.

New Status Items on the status menu


New way to find Happiness

Prior to this update the only effective way to actively make your survivors happier was to give them beer. As this is clearly not a good sole solution for happiness we have added fun clothing. Wearing this will make your survivors passively more happy over time. As well it will cheer up survivors who see people wearing fun outfits.

fancy suit, and tie


Other new things

We have added some other small improvement and bug fixes such as allowing for infinite orders of items.

New infinity counter on Items


Next update Info (Leaderboard Reset)

It will be a bit longer than usual for the next update (3 weeks instead of 2) but that is because we plan on changing a lot of core things such as how research works and adding a ton more to the survivor direct control mode. As such, the .60 update will be the last update for this round of the leaderboards. The leaderboards will be reset when the 0.61 update comes out. At point and whoever is at the top will be immortalized in the records.

This spot could be yours


Final thoughts

As always we couldn't do this with without you guys, Thank you for all of the feedback and support here on Steam and in our Discord Keep the feedback coming it helps us a ton.

Patch Notes

0.60

• Added: New job type: Equip
• Added: Ability to equip/unequip specific survivors
• Added: Tannery building
• Added: Leather hats/gloves/Vests
• Added: Loom building
• Added: Warm hats/gloves/vests
• Added: Forge Building
• Added: Metal Helmets/Gauntlets/Chestplate
• Added: Fun Bench building
• Added: Ties/Party hats/Fancy Suits
• Added: new building: Floor Lights
• Added: 5 new Research blobs (4 in equipment, 1 in power)
• Added: Speed/warmth info on status page for survivors
• Added: You can now say keep infinite amount of an item in the crafting menu.
• Changed: Machetes are now made in a forge.
• Changed: Some items/buildings are now in different blobs on research menu.
• Changed: Zims will now sometimes spawn with Armor on.
• Changed: Compactor is now in the food menu.
• Changed: Survivors will put down items in their inventory more often when relaxing/Idle.
• Changed: Contagious range has been increased when a survivors is infected or has a cold.
• Fixed: Bug that made it cost 5 fish to get one cooked fish.
• Fixed: Hair extending past hats
• Fixed: Sprinklers did not have crafting requirements... They do now.
• Fixed: Bug that made the first three control icons be slightly smaller than the rest
• Fixed: Bug that had some item names incorrectly showing on science menu
• Fixed: Bug that would remove weapons when equipping a new one.
• Fixed: Some capitalization errors in the building descriptions
• Removed: survivors with no longer autoequip items
• Removed: old warm hats that were equipped to survivors. are now gone