- Steam App
- Wanderers' Outpost (3748310)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 24 July 2026 - 21:38:43 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
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...