Game update

Lag be gone

Terrarium II · published 27 hours ago

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🌿 Terrarium II — Patch Notes Summary
Version 0.0.0.5
Performance & Graphics
Added Low Graphics Mode for players on weaker hardware.

Simplified sky rendering

Lightweight clouds, stars, sun, and moon

Reduced lighting calculations

Removed heavy weather effects

Simplified tile rendering (no lighting, no particles, no EXP orbs)

Correct tile scaling preserved to prevent stretching

Optimized Normal Graphics Mode tile rendering:

Reduced allocations

Cached scale, brightness, and color values

Faster per‑tile math

Lower CPU overhead during world draw

Improved overall rendering pipeline structure for clarity and performance.

Beams & VFX
Added Low Graphics Beam Mode:

Clean cyan core beam

Soft glow layer

Only 2 draw calls per beam

Removes spirals, lightning arcs, wiggles, pulses, particles, and sparkle bursts

Full beam mode remains unchanged for high‑graphics settings.

UI & Settings
Added Settings Menu toggles:

Music ON/OFF

Low Graphics Mode ON/OFF

Fixed mouse input logic using proper LeftMousePressed edge detection.

Corrected and widened click‑zones for smoother UI interaction.

General Improvements
Cleaned up tile‑window culling logic.

Improved rendering order consistency.

Reduced redundant math and dictionary lookups across rendering systems.

Other announcements

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Game update10 Sep 2026Resource FarmingResources give a generous amount of exp when farming tiles, this update makes it so you cant place a resource tile don't and re-farm it for exp Also Separated VSync from low graphics Game update9 Sep 2026vSync and Fall ParticlesAdded vSync off toggle to low graphics added fall particles for when player falls. adjusted max fall damage as well.Game update9 Sep 2026The one Addressing LagAdded Lighting to low graphics as well, this should take a huge strain off the game.