Hello, all! We've been working hard on a pretty major set of updates for Patch 1.10. Official patch notes will be posted when it goes live, but here's a preview of some of our major changes:
- Your predators may now fail hunts! Well, technically the poor little prey animal might be clever and get away, but this makes things much more fair and realistic.
- We now have an interface to show you the meat points on a carcass that can be eaten by another predator, and how that converts into detritus if it is not eaten before the carcass decays away.
- Territories can now cross-breed. Before, when you got down to 1 animal in a territory and it popped up that "Can't reproduce," you basically just started wishing for it to die so you could put something else there. Now, if there is another territory of the same species nearby, they will reproduce with each other!
- Major art update, as our team has re-touched pretty much everything in our three older biomes (Desert, Grassland, Rainforest) to make the art style more consistent with our painted/bright style - you may have noticed before some looked cartoon-like and some rather realistic. No more!
- Options menu redesigned; should reduce accidentally hitting the wrong button!
- Many more smaller tweaks and bug fixes that will be in the full patch notes
We were hoping to release today, but we found ourselves with one last giant issue that popped out after fixing a relatively minor bug yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ijOvf8-w3w&feature=youtu.be
All the new or baby animals begin to fly up into the sky on placement. Until they think sad thoughts and fall down, to their deaths.
Final update coming as soon as we clean this up!