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MoteMancerNewsPatch 0.4.044 is Live - Rolling in perf updates from Experimental
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Patch 0.4.044 is Live - Rolling in perf updates from Experimental

MoteMancer · published 29 Apr 2026, 01:16 UTC

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Greetings Mancers!

Experimental has been pretty stable, so the updates to help performance are being rolled into the live game. There are more coming, but it's a good break point to migrate what's working well into the main build.

There's also a fix for old saves having rare odd research tree states, and some polish to post-portal tutorial beats.

Updates

  • Presentation updates to post-portal Tutorial corner.
  • Fix for a rare bug when loading old save files creating bad research tree states.
  • Structures now run on a fixed simulation tick rate.
  • VFX and Sprites have improved culling logic.
  • Improved batching on Structure rendering.
  • Player shadow should render smoother now.
  • First music track on the Fire plane is now appropriately a Fire track instead of Life.

v0.4.041 update
A handful of behavior bugs caused by performance improvements should now be resolved:

  • Streamway Deltas should no longer seize or throttle
  • Player Inventory should be back to 9x9 instead of 6x12
  • Charged Lodestone should now work as expected

v0.4.042 update
Additional edge-case bugs caused by performance improvements should now be resolved:

  • A delta connected directly to a slab could stop processing if the slab trickled slowly but never fully fell asleep.
  • Anytime a belt is placed and it modifies one of its neighbor chains, the neighbor chain may need to split itself.
  • Sometimes if a belt entity became culled, its position would stop updating and it would appear invisible on the belt.
  • Unlocking a recipe will wake up all production structures to see if they can now create things.

v0.4.044 update

  • Fixed a bug that caused Czech default language (and possibly other languages) to not be able to load saved games.

Thank you for your patience and bug reports!

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