This update optimized a great deal of code and mechanics on the server side, as well as fixes several issues.
No more Large Animals!!!
The greatest news however is that the "large animal" bug is FINALLY fixed! I was finally able to track down the bug. Then it took me three whole days to find, understand, track down, and fix the issue! For those of you who have been playing the game for a long time you know this bug well :)
The problem was I was looking in the wrong direction for the problem, and I found out the problem was occurring in a completely different area of code! In fact, the bug wasn't creating "large" animals at all! In fact, it was manipulating animals, and they were actually *growing* and *shrinking* over time! The large animals were actually growing bigger and bigger! And there were other that shrunk to microscopic size!
I also made it so that any large animals that currently exist should get immediately removed.
Server Improvements Everywhere!
Aside from finally fixing that large animal bug, I actually did a massive amount of work on the server, optimizing, organizing, and doing many other things to make the code and server run more efficiently, and to create it so future update are much more quickly and efficiently done.
Of course, you read the patch notes here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/342910/discussions/0/2793873197768636681/
Enjoy!