Kasi version 0.3.0 adds physics to vines and flushes out their place in the game, as well as improving performance and quality-of-life.
The full changelog is listed at the bottom of this post or in-game in the "What's New?" menu.
Major Changes
Vine Physics
Previously, vines had an approximation of physics, and only when they were being created. Now, vines have a full rope physics system. They can now be dragged around, stretched, bunched up, and hung on branches.
Vine Balloons
In the same way that overlapping regular leaves makes moon leaves, overlapping vine leaves now makes vine balloons! Vine balloons quickly increase in buoyancy after being created, and they can pull up connected vines, suspending them. You can use multiple balloons for more lift and create plants entirely of a network of floating vines.
Vine Leaf Tracking
Vine leaves now try to track the sun. This makes them much more efficient, so to balance them out, they now absorb less maximum sunlight and you can fit fewer on the same node. Plants with many vine leaves can really feel alive!
Visual Hint Improvements
The hints that teach new players to play the game now look better, and there are more of them. If you ever get tired of seeing them on new plants, simply disable them in the settings menu.
Minor changes
In addition to the bigger changes listed above, this update also has performance improvements, several bugfixes, quality-of-life improvements, and some graphical changes. You can read about all of them in the changelog below.
Full Changelog
Version 0.3.0 (2020-10-10)
- Vines have proper physics
- Add vine balloons
- Vine leaves absorb less light but track the sun
- Vine leaves are easier to tell apart from regular leaves
- Custom palettes can use transparent colors
- Hold Left-Shift to disable retraction
- Hold Left-Shift to force a vine instead of a fruit
- Improve rain lighting and color
- New plants start paused
- Add subtle shimmer to moon leaves and root ends
- Improve and add more visual hints
- Performance improvements
- Bugfixes