The Survivalists update out now (version 1.0.5), patch notes and trailer

Team17 has readied a major update for the Switch version of The Survivalists. Version 1.0.5 is live, featuring taming, animal breeding, a new crop system, and much more.

Below are the full patch notes:

TAMING

• Players are now able to tame the following animals: Big Cats, Wolves, Elephant Birds, Boars, Deer & Stags, rabbits.
• Certain objects are required to first pacify the animal and second to lure them back to a Pen.

• Tamed animals have a higher chance of dropping special ingredients.

BREEDING

• Players are now able to Breed the following animals: Big Cats, Wolves, Elephant Birds, Boars, Deer & Stags, rabbits.

• Certain foods can be used to encourage breeding.

LABYRINTH UPDATE

• Labyrinths end rooms are now occupied by a mini boss. Certain mini bosses will drop the recipes you need for taming!

• Bat mini boss.
• Boar mini boss.
• Elephant Bird mini boss.
• Cat mini boss.

TAMING CRAFT TREE

• 3 types of breeding food.
• A new animal luring item.
• A pipe component used in other recipes.
• 5 types of tranquilliser blow-pipes.
• New items added to loot tables.
• A new structure tree has been added including:
• Taming table.
• Small animal pen.

ANIMALS AND PLANTS

• New animals and dangerous plants.
• The Wolves, Tank Bird and Flock Birds!

• Three new dangerous plants, some found in specific biomes.
• Dangerous plants now drop items used in tranquillisers.

CROP SYSTEM

• Players can now plant and grow their own crops including new varieties of plants to grow. Remember to water them!
• Domesticated crops can offer a higher yield of resources including rare items.\n- Dangerous plants can now be grown to act as base defences.
• New cooking recipes have been added utilising new crops.
• New structures and items have been added to support.
• Monkeys can now plant seeds and water if taught.
• Seeds can be found on certain animals throughout the world.

DYEING BENCH

• A bench that allows players to colour walls, floors and chests to suit their tastes.

NEW STRUCTURES

• Tools and weapons can now be repaired with the new repair bench.
• Weapons and tools can now be improved by using the grindstone structure.
• Alchemy bench allows the player to transmute certain items into others.
• Food processor bench allows food resources to be converted.
• Cosmetic structures have been added including pond that can be populated with fish.
• Refuse pit can be used to destroy items.
• Decorative water features have been added.

FAST RAFT

• A new faster raft can be crafted using crop resources.

FISHING

• Nets and fish traps can be crafted enable catching fish live or for food.

RAID IMPROVEMENTS

• Raids are now focused on the player and occur during bloodmoon. Players now receive plenty of warning prior to a raid to enable them to pick the right course of action.

TAMING

• Tamed animals can be used as guard animals.

LARGER INVENTORY

• Access to a larger inventory via a backpack has been added.

GROUP PICKUP

• Alternate methods of pickup have been added, no need to spam the button.

MULTITOOL

• No longer needs to be selected, as long as it is in the inventory it will be used.

NEW RARE RESOURCES

• Rare resources are now present in the world needed for some recipes.

COMBAT & STAMINA

• An overhaul to combat giving more fluid combat.
• Greater control over direction of attack.
• Lunge and knockback changes.
• Stamina has been altered reducing running out when in combat and harvesting resources.
• Flatter difficulty curve for enemy health.

OTHER ADJUSTMENTS

• Damage values added to weapon tooltips.
• Durability values added to tooltips.
• Some reworking of weapon and tool values to make clearer the benefits of using the right tool for the right job.
• Better colour coding on items to make clearer their rarity.
• Baby animals are now present in the world.
• New rare crops have been added to the world (*requires new save).
• Monkeys now ‘bark’ needs as well as an icon.
• Loot pools have been rebalanced.
• Summon favourite monkeys from anywhere with the new summoning banana.
• Durability on weapons and tools increased.
• Slight increase to player and monkey movement speed.
• A host of new recipes have been added to complement and support new features.
• Online privileges are now turned on by default.

OTHER CHANGES AND FIXES

• Key costs of labyrinths changed to reflect new difficulty.
• New items in the Mysterious Strangers shop.
• New attack patterns for cats and boars.
• Devil boars will now appear more frequently in the world.
• The night is dark and full of terrors – there are now more large predators at night.
• Removed collisions from bushes to help with the common complaint that people felt they were constantly getting stuck in the environment.
• Tweaked combat so that actions can be interrupted, you don’t need to wait for the whole animation to play before dodge rolling for example.
• Fixed an issue where biomes were not triggering their visual effects correctly. Hostile biomes will now feel less welcoming.
• Fixed an issue with one of the Labyrinth rooms being broken.
• Fixed an issue where the Quest privilege option was incorrectly labelled.
• Fixed an issue with the Mysterious Stranger’s store where players were unable to sell a stack of items.
• Fixed various issues with the behaviour of Mysterious Chests in online sessions.
• Fixed an issue where Torches and Braziers were no longer animating.
• Fixed an issue where players were unable to rotate wooden chairs found in the wild.
• Fixed an issue where the bloodmoon effect would appear a day before the world was replenished.
• Fixed an issue where Shadows were displaying incorrectly around Teleporters.
• Fixed instances where sleeping could cause a desync between the visual and actual time of day.
• Fur rugs are no longer able to be placed ocean tiles using the raft.
• Fixed an issue preventing players from using the Host’s shared monkeys unless both players have the privilege turned on.
• Fixed an issue which caused raft music to continually play.
• Fixed an issue where players could place storage chests on swamp tar pits.
• Fixed an issue where the growing up particle effect for baby animals was desynced.
• Fixed an issue where pins placed in Vaults and Labyrinths were incorrectly displayed outside of these areas.
• Fixed an issue which caused the Structural Integrity Trophy to unlock when building the Taming Bench.
• Fixed an issue preventing interaction with some lootable objects.
• Fixed an issue where on rare occasions a player’s monkeys could not travel back with them when leaving an online session.
• Fixed an issue where on rare occasions after a raid, damaged chests could no longer be used by monkeys.

We have a trailer for today’s major update below. 

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