V2.3 Experimental is here!

• Biomes and their Challenges can be explored and completed in any order to unlock Survival Gear recipes

• Recover from biome hazard effects while sheltered allowing players to explore deeper into each biome

• Recover from biome hazard effects in any other biome

• Smoothies were updated with unique names and icons

• Biome Badges have been changed to Survival Gear with updated icons to look more thematic to the game's style

• Survival Gear will be dropped on death with those settings enabled

• Players are allowed to craft additional gear items in the case of death or even for other players

• Even without Survival Gear, storms no longer require players to escape the biome they are in while taking shelter

• Plague Spitters no longer cloak

• Lower chance of infection from Plague Spitter Insect Swarm

• Tree stump bees have been changed to a non-infecting version

• Tree stump harvest event has been updated to guarantee honey "IF" bees are spawned

• Several zombie types will now target animal or player corpses that were previously ignored

• Added a 2nd column of icons to use for custom map waypoints

• Several tweaks to zombie AI

• Dew Collectors have a lower activity heat value

Here is how you participate:

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• Right click on the game in steam

• Click on properties

• Click the “betas” tab

• The drop down menu will have latest_experimental available <— you want THAT

• Select that and wait for the game to download

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Have fun! Here's what changed since V2.2 stable: Added

• Bee Swarm entity variant for tree stump game event

• Bee Swarm hand item with non critical debuffs

• Updated icons for Biome Survival Gear

• WornItemMods min effect requirement

• HonkEvent for vehicles to allow game events to fire based on honking the horn.

• AI wander and look are more active while alert

• AI randomly turns during look while alert

• Second column of icons to use for custom map waypoints

Changed

• Removed erroneous second set of tags from ammoCrossbowBoltExploding

• Disabled biome Wear, Loot, and Time challenges

• Biome Badges are now separate weather items per biome.

• Removed RepairItemsMeshDamage property from jail doors since they don't have a door frame stage

• Taking shelter without survival gear will recover biome hazard effects

• All biome hazards now have 3 minutes of survival time without gear

• Survival gear is now dropped on death with drop on death settings

• Updated icons for biome hazard reducers

• Removed food and water stats from Black Lung Serum and Fallout Flush

• Increased food, water, and health stat on Scorcher Stew to be inline with other stew stats

• Increased water stat on Sunstroke Tonic

• Updated the recipe for Scorcher Stew

• Tree stumps now roll once for honey, then again for bees. Bees always come with honey, but not all honey comes with bees.

• Reworked buff weights for a lower chance of infection from Plague Spitter Insect Swarm

• Reduced dew collector activity value

• Replaced plague spitter