Kasi version 1.3.0 adds aquatic plants, lighting improvements, and many other small changes.
Water and Aquatic Plants
When creating a new plant, you can now generate a world with pools of water. The wetness slider determines whether it will just be a few small puddles or a great lake.
Branches and roots that grow into water become seaweed. Seaweed stems have leaves that absorb light like regular leaves, and seaweed stems absorb water. Seaweed leaves glow in darkness.
Bring seaweed to the surface to create a lily pad. Lily pads absorb light, and some have flowers. Lily pads also allow the spider to cross water.
Lighting Changes
Kasi's lighting system has been overhauled. Lighting should be a bit more consistent and realistic. Rock and ground will cast nice shadows in water, and this will actually affect seaweed light absorption.
The new system may be too slow for certain slower machines. In this case, you can turn down "Lighting Resolution" in the graphics settings, or just turn off "Fancy Lighting" altogether to use to the old lighting system.
Plant Shaping Changes
When making new branches, you can now press E (R1 on controller) to end the branch early and change directions. Hold the same button while creating new branches to make them all half as long. This allows you to make plants with finer detail, especially in creative mode.
In creative mode, you can now press F (R3 on controller) to change a leaf, needle, or lily pad into the corresponding type of flower. You can also use it to change flowers back into their equivalent leaves.
These changes are just the first in a set of improvements to plant shaping that will be the focus of the next major update.
Full Changelog
Version 1.3.0 (2021-03-01)
- Add water and aquatic node types
- Improve lighting engine
- Branches can be ended early (press/hold E/R1)
- Add world presets
- Fruit has full physics
- Fruit decays over time
- Rain is quieter underground
- Add specific volume sliders
- Creative mode growth is faster
- Flowers can be toggled in creative mode (press F/R3)
- Add Spanish and German translations
- Performance improvements
- Bugfixes