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Published: 15 Jul 2021

The Survivalists Expeditions Update - Out Now on Consoles!

Gather your monkeys and prepare for more adventure with the Expeditions Update, out now!


 

Quests
Trinkets
✔️ Save upgrade system
Bestiary
& more!

New features:

40+ New Trinkets
  • It is now possible to level your player character via trinkets. There are 4 trinkets slots that can be earned that can be slotted with a variety of trinkets that can radically change gameplay.
  • Trinkets such as burning damage, death bombs, infection, shields, tool damage and damage reduction and more!
  • Trinkets have 4 unique tier slots so you can customise to your playstyle.
  • Trinkets recipes are earned by performing objectives for the Taskmasters.
  • A new trinket bench can be built to support this.

 

4 New TaskMasters
  • There are 4 new taskmasters on islands beyond the starting one.
  • These offer themed tasks which when completed offer ever increasing rewards most tied into the trinket system.
  • More than 50 new challenges each with a unique reward.
  • Taskmaster types are… Beastmaster, Collector, Gourmand, Salesman.

 

5 New Pets
  • You can find an egg and if nurtured, gain a companion to keep you company.

 

Caves changes
  • These have had an overhaul, they are now ‘gated’, you will need something to get into them.
  • There are now many new resources inside that are required to support trinkets.

 

Bestiary
  • There is now a bestiary in the journal that tracks animals and collectibles and also displays resources you might find on them.

 

Labyrinths
  • Now offer new rewards at the end. Have also been tweaked with regards to internal mobs.

 

Legendary Weapons
  • Can now be repaired on the repair bench and gained as rewards from taskmasters.

 

New Animals
  • 2 new animals, one of which is a ‘loot goblin’.

 

Landregen Refactor
  • Generation has been changed so that there are now more distinct islands, increasing in difficulty along with breadcrumbs to lead you in the right direction should you with.

 

Regenerate
  • Start a new game with the new features and take your inventory, mysterious chest, unlocked blueprints and 5 monkey friends along with you for a headstart. This is required for the new features.

 

Elites
  • Elite variations of existing animals, needed for some of the tasks.

 

Player initiated raids
  • With the right item you can now summon elite variants to fight, earning rewards to hand in to the Taskmasters.

 

Expandable Inventory
  • Fulfilling objectives for the Taskmasters will reward you with items that can increase your inventory size.

 

New Items
  • There are many new items to me found to support the new features.

 

Mob Variants
  • New harder Orclings can be now found, especially on Skull Island.

 

New collectibles
  • Over 10 new collectibles to find and new items to craft to find them.

 

New items & resources
  • New items, recipes and resources have been added to support new features.

 

New Currency
  • Mysterious tokens can sometimes be offered as a reward from the task masters.

 

New Token Shop
  • Unlock via tasks the right to purchase powerful trinket recipes from the new Token Shop.

Bug fixes and improvements:

  • Fixed an issue with crops where some had missing or incorrect shadows.
  • Fixed an issue where some animation frames were missing on north facing attacks.
  • Fixed an issue where the player silhouette was not appearing behind mountains.
  • Fixed an issue where players were able to add multiple weapons to the repair bench causing those items to disappear.
  • Fixed an issue where some items were not visible when placed on a wall.
  • Fixed an issue where on a rare occasion Monkeys would disappear when returning from an online session.
  • Fixed an issue where reward chests were sometimes indestructible.
  • Fixed an issue with the Steam controller profile where the A button was incorrectly being set as the B button.
  • More save corruption fixes.
  • General bug fixes and improvements.

    Thanks for reading and we're excited for console players to explore these new features!

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