Balancing mutation mechanics for more interesting simulations
- Made it possible for fungi to disperse via water
- Made it more likely for new land animals to lose unused fins
- Made the emergence of sexual reproduction more likely
- Made the emergence of other sexes more likely
- Made the evolution of land plants more likely on a planet with seasons
- Meteorites block a way larger percentage of sunlight
- When the sunlight is blocked after a meteorite, no new plants can get born, so more plant species get extinct
Balancing body parts
- Nerfed all eyes so increasing scale is unattractive during the day
- Buffed the pinhole eye, so it's no longer inferior to the compound eye
- Balancing statistics for the primitive leaves, fern and needles to prevent bottlenecks
Redoing the appearance of some ears and eyes
- Redesigned two most primitive ears
- Fixed ears on top flipping backwards during animations
- Fixed the 'looking sideways' eye having white eyelids
- Fixed 'obligate night vision' eye's brow being reflective
Small UI fixes
- Fixed the species detail view button (the 'i') sometimes not working when focusing on an organism
- Fixed organisms not appearing when loading from the second page of the archive
- Decreased font sizes for leaf stats in the plant editor
Fixed various causes of the time stopping bug
- The liquid storing abdomen when filled (thanks Not Original!)
- When animals tried to climb trees that for optimization reasons only had a billboard
- Meteorites removing plants that only had a billboard
Other
- Fixed fungus caps being forgotten sometimes (thanks TaterTot!)
- Fixed messing up versioning in the species archive functionality
I often forget to read comments below release notes, so if you have questions or bug reports, feel free to reach out via the Steam forums or [email protected].
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The stream is almost halfway! Watch together with the dev in 2 hoursAs you might know, at the moment I'm running a long livestream, simulating evolution 24/7. It's all epxplained in this video: We've been able to follow the planet Wright-2b for almost a week now, and the moving continent (named 'Rupert' by the community) is about halfway its journey. Many interesting things are happening, like: · The two main continents are each hosting their own plant family:…Wright-2b is live!Streaming evolution simulation indie game The Sapling, 24/7 for 2 weeks: We started on planet Wright-2b with a simple alga and underwater animal, turned on random mutations, and now we watch what evolves. Introduction to the project: Introduction to the world:Patch v13.71Balancing 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…