This update adds some new things related to cows!
Cows now actually eat grass. After eating 6 pixels of grass (max 2 per bite), they will poop. The Cow manure reacts with Soil to create Loam.
There is also a new craftable Cowbell pixel in the Extra pixels category. The Cowbell is a signal-activatable pixel that causes any nearby Cows to produce Milk if they are ready (there is a one minute cooldown on milk production after giving milk), so you could use this to create automatic milk farms! The Cowbell is made from Brass, which is a new alloy you can make from Copper and Zinc.
In addition:
QOL: if an Electrode is not within the player's simulated area, it now does not play the flicker and sound effects
PERFORMANCE: many places in the code were calling native Godot API random number generation functions that were inefficient, which was contributing to the performance stuttering for some people - these have now been changed out for deterministic-lookup-based RNG functions and are much more performant, so hopefully this helps reduce the stuttering for many people.
More updates coming soon!
and if you haven't already please leave me a Steam review, it really helps me a lot!
-Triplejump