This small update focuses on reducing stutters and fixing achievement issues, mainly around the shop, view transitions, and behavior observations.

Improvements

• Optimized the shop’s initial opening and category switching to reduce stutters caused by loading item cards and substrate resources at once.

• Improved transitions between Desktop Mode and the full vivarium view, reducing window jumps and long stalls.

• Adjusted reflection handling on Windows to make transitions into the vivarium view more stable.

• Reduced unnecessary calculations when the gecko searches for a climbable observation spot, lowering the chance of brief stutters in complex enclosures.

• Reduced background scene processing while the shop is open, helping shop interactions stay smoother.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where seeing the gecko drink for the first time did not trigger the “Tiny Tongue, First Sip” milestone, its rewards, or the corresponding Steam achievement.

• Fixed hiding and sleeping inside a hide not being recorded as observed behaviors, which prevented their observation rewards and corresponding Steam achievements from unlocking.