1.4.0: Build, Tailor and Here

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Two new modes under Craft ▾, Build and Tailor, a calmer Here tab, and a fix for food that didn't age.

New

• Build: tap Craft ▾ and pick Build for the game's build menu: everything you can build, with what each needs and what you have. Versions of the same thing share one tile (Wood Chair: Shoddy, Poor, Good); pick the version in its panel. Place brings up the game's own build cursor on the top screen: the d-pad moves it, LB/RB turn it, A builds and B stops. The cursor stays up for the next one, and the bottom screen says what you're placing (red when something runs out), with Stop.
• Tailor: Craft ▾ → Tailor shows your clothes, worn and in your bags, with their holes and patches, and the needle, thread and fabric you carry. Tap a garment to see every body part it covers, with its Bite and Scratch protection, holes, blood and patches, as in the game's Inspect window. Tap a part to patch a hole, add padding or remove a patch. Your character sews it, and the part shows the progress. Inspect on a garment, in the app's item panel or in the game, opens the same view.

Improved

• Here holds still. Each object keeps its place as you walk, instead of the cards reshuffling with every step. What you're facing gets an outline and goes on top once you've faced it for a second, and the one you faced before stays right under it. Disassemble and loose actions (Sit on ground) sit in a row at the bottom, and lists like Disassemble or Wash open over the cards instead of stretching them. While your finger is on the screen, nothing moves.

Fixed

• Food didn't age while you used the app instead of the game's inventory window. Frozen food never thawed, and playing without the mod afterwards made everything rot at once. Food ages, freezes and thaws as in the game again, and wet clothes in your bags dry. (Thanks for reporting /u/Efficient_Ship1353)
• Opening a car's trunk opened the game's loot window on the top screen. It opens on the bottom screen now, like Loot, and one tap of A opens or closes it once.
• A container that appeared or went away nearby (like an opened or closed trunk) showed up in the app only after you moved or turned.
• With the Thor's focus setting on Automatic, the layout menus (inventory layout, map position) took the controller away from the game.
• Android could say ZomboidDS isn't responding when you pressed controller buttons while the game wasn't running.

Update

• From 1.3.x: open the app's setup screen (outside a game), tap Download, then Install. Then Update the mod in the checklist (0.26.0), with Zomdroid closed. Build, Tailor and the new Here need the updated mod.
• New install: download ZomboidDS-1.4.0.apk below and follow the user guide.

SHA-256 of ZomboidDS-1.4.0.apk: b148bdb2bb10e687be740037ea9c1c68f0cb0bde13fb0a6963785a8c7117c504

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