Patch v12.45

Save format version 11

• Storing fixed family relations
• Storing fungi death causes

Improvements for the animal mutation system

• Greatly increased chances that land animals will emerge
• Changed animal color mutation system to much smaller changes, but much more frequently (thanks BananasGoMoo!)
• Cleaned up a lot of unused code for mutating animals at random, making it slightly more efficient

Small UI fixes

• In the species list view, you can left click an organism type to 'solo' it, showing only that type (thanks Izaiah Bradford!)
• Removed grammatical errors from tooltips (thanks Jordan Moxie!)
• Improved hitboxes of filter icons in the save/load menu (thanks Jordan Moxie!)
• Fixed white line above the manual save file filter icon (thanks Jordan Moxie!)

Change esc menu behavior

• If you have another view open, esc will first close that instead showing the esc menu
• Esc menu will pause the game (thanks Chared!)

Fixes for natural disasters

• Fixed another cause for the time stopping bug: plants dying from fire (thanks SeedlessWatermelon!)
• When changing the ocean level, cells that were underwater previously will have maximum moisture
• Removed fire particle effect when billboards are reused on another location

Other

• Various changes for an upcoming stream mode, to be used in a Twitch livestream

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].