Hello, Outpost Keepers!

Hotpatch 0.17.17 is now available. This is a smaller patch focused on reliability and quality-of-life improvements. It makes planted-crop automation reliable across staffing changes and saved games, cleans up stale work in the task queue, and makes hauled items visible directly on pawns.

Reliable Auto-Harvest

• Auto-harvest is now always active and continues checking crops during guard alerts.
• Every mature player-planted crop is checked when a save is loaded, and missing harvest work is recreated immediately.
• Harvest tasks can wait in the queue until a suitable worker becomes available instead of disappearing when no Farmer is free.
• Wild forageable plants are excluded from automatic harvesting and remain available for manual harvest orders.
• Older saves that persisted auto-harvest as disabled are migrated automatically.

Carried Items

• Pawns now display the icon of the item they are carrying directly over their torso.
• Carried stacks show their quantity beside the icon.
• The overlay clears automatically when the pawn delivers or drops the item.

Thank you for the detailed save reports and console traces that helped isolate the restored-crop issue.