This is mainly just a follow-up patch to fix some bugs reported in v178, but there's a new feature too - you can now specify, for a particular bottle or sealed container, what kind of liquid or substance you want people to put in it. So you can set one bucket to be your saltpeter bucket, one to be your gunpowder bucket, and so on. And you can set bottles to be for water only, so people don't go filling them up with pee from the outhouse.
The rest of the patch is fixes and tweaks from the previous patch - here's the full changelist:
- Option to designate what liquid you want a particular container to be storing
- Auto-collect will pick up arrows
- Increased tolerance for building on slopey ground
- Made chicken wire more common
- Fix for mouse not working to switch targets or target body parts on Steam Deck
- Fix for crash if a memory type is removed from a mod
- Fix for crash on loading some savegames
- Fix for occasional crash when confirming a trade in multiplayer
EDIT - Released a small follow up patch, v180 with some fixes for the above:
- Setting Roles and Equipment Policy will always be available immediately if you have hints turned off. Otherwise they appear once you have multiple community members.
- Fix for characters filling bottles designated for water with snow
- Fix for crash when auto collecting items
What's this publicbeta thing?
v179 will be in the "publicbeta" branch for a while, before pushing it to the main game. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:
- Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable
- If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them
- If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".
To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".