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Patch v13.71

Balancing and fixes for animals

  • Various legs besides the body now have special requirements for the animal to have more than 1 set of limbs, to make them look more natural (already in the previous patch logs, but now it's working)
  • Sessile animals with moving juveniles now actually move to the ocean floor and stop moving as adults (thanks, Cody Beaver, Cringus Ringus, Spectator, Acarlis, mic biology!)
  • Idem for ocean floor walkers (thanks, Ancient Relic!)
  • Optimized species population size tracker in situations with many species

Balancing and fixes for plants

  • Grass is now removed from a cell when eaten (thanks, esportfrank!)
  • Wildfire now removes grass, and grass won't be able to grow there for a while
  • Plant subspecies will now always have the same color as their parent species, to make it easier to identify which plant is which species
  • Tweaked the chance of algae evolving into plants

Working on the weight system

  • Made max weights for flying and in particular gliding higher, so development of flight is more likely
  • Weight now increases with body size, making giant flying things less likely (thanks, Warlor-vir!)
  • Individual torso segments now have less influence on the final weight to compensate for the above
  • Now the 'halve weight' icons are used everywhere, so you can see the weight in more detail
  • Removed ugly floating points that could sometimes pop oup in the UI

Introduced savefile format 16

  • Memory/savefile optimization: the game now prunes extinct subspecies that the player couldn't see anyway
  • Added support for automatic continental drift
  • When loading, fixed the explainer text about which formats are supported

Various little editor fixes

  • Adding seasons and then hitting 'randomize all' no longer messes up the planet tilt (thanks, SethMMX!)
  • Plus and minus keys now also control zoom in the alga and fungus editors (thanks, Daruka!)
  • When dragging the 'slow moving tube feet' and 'sessile foot' body parts, they now have the correct color instead of white

Misc

  • Clicking a species in the cladogram view now shows a subtree starting from that species, making it easy to study part of very large trees

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