Patch v12.42

Optimizations

• Turned off a prebuilding system that once saved FPS, but since the new optimizations took more time figuring out which organisms to prebuild; should be make the daily lag spikes less intense
• For instincts, the game now looking around an animal for trigger if the trigger is 'feeling', speeding up the simulation when there are a lot of animals with feel instincts

Balancing

• Made the emergence of useful instincts for carnivores more likely
• Added old meat as a food type to 'aquatic pointy teeth'

Revised species definition

• Species categorization now also takes into account the parent species: if two identical organisms emerge in different lineages, they will be considered different species. Note: this information is not saved correctly yet.
• In the species list view, below species it now shows the time since the birth year instead of the time alive, better matching player expectations
• Fixed forgotten family relations when an alga evolves into a plant
• Fixed forgotten family relations when a single plants evolves into grass or vice versa

Other

• Removed subslots below the animal, preventing another cause of the plant duplication bug (thanks Griffvador!)

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